IT and politicians, part 2

The subject of IT, going from beeing a stone cold subject in the beginning of the swedish election campaign, have become red hot, especially if it can be tied to some kind of missusage or scandal.

Discussions on some chat channels and mailing lists revealed that by using some google hacking, it was quite easy to recover sensitive configuration information (root password) to one of the political parties youth section. More on that in this article (in swedish) in one of the major newspapers. Google and friends are powerful tools - remeber that it could be used for both good and malicious intent.

One swedish politician had the content of his hard disk (swedish) available on one of the major file sharing networks. He blame his kids to have used the computer to connect to DC++. This is still to be verified. However, common sense give that you should not share a computer used for professional work with your teenagers.