A recent privacy uproar concerns the public posting of CHAT LOGS from
the PC of a web company CEO which included his internal "private
discussions" using an instant messaging service.
"Last week, hundreds of pages of the ICQ instant
messaging logs were posted on the Web and copied onto various sites,
creating the kind of information security breach that has become one
of the worst corporate nightmares of the digital age. The logs, which
were apparently snatched from a PC used by Sam Jain, CEO of eFront,
have nearly paralysed his company and created a personal nightmare for
Jain.
"I'm tired of it; I just want to go on with my
company," Jain said. "People out there are stalking me,
threatening me with death threats...scanning my cell phone
frequency."
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