Posts by Matthew Poole
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Julie Fairey,
ASB ... included a rather luscious executive suite on the top floor I believe
You believe correctly. Having been there in a former employment life, I can attest to the opulent nature of its (former) fit-out. Not to mention the sweeping harbour views all the way north-to-south. Oh and the restricted-access lift that only serviced the top floor and required a key-card. It was the floor on which the Board met, and configured in keeping with appropriate uber-capitalist norms. Lots of wood panelling, thick carpet, etc.
A very nice space, but woe betide the Council if it had been retained intact. If we think the invective about Len's sex-den en-suite is OTT, it takes little imagination to conjure up the fevered words that would have been bandied about to describe the "Mayor's luxurious penthouse suite".
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Legal Beagle: A rather incomplete…, in reply to NSA,
For the record: Stuff, per se, was not hacked.
Thanks for that Stephen, though I’m unsure of your professional affiliations here, so I raise an eyebrow at the strictness of interpretation of the term ‘hacked’ that you’re employing.
I'm not sure why Stephen's affiliations are in the least bit relevant. If the breach was of a service that supplies content that is linked to from the stuff.co.nz site, Stephen is both pedantically and actually correct in his statement. He's not picking at the word "hacked", he's picking at it being stuff.co.nz that was compromised. Hence his use of the phrase "per se".
I've got no affiliation with (and little love for) Fairfax and the members of its media stable, but I wouldn't question anyone who said what Stephen did. Allowing inaccuracies to lie just because the details are a little bit complex does nobody any favours.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to izogi,
My first thought on reading that was “don’t most email conversations involve at least two participants?”
Has someone else been deleting things besides Jason Ede?
You think the Oily One won't have been deleting like mad?
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Russell Brown,
the police seem to have decided almost immediately that they wouldn’t bother investigating David Parker’s criminal complaint.
Shame the IPCA have no teeth with which to bite the police for that decision. With the police regularly ignoring IPCA report conclusions, it's become abundantly clear that the IPCA is useful only for killing trees. I don't doubt their independence or integrity, but without prosecuting authority they're not even as useful as mammary glands on a male bovine.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Katharine Moody,
And there is likely to be a snap debate called for in Parliament today on Gwyn’s findings.
Bets on Carter denying the request?
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Humph Applebey,
The emails *are* available on the 5 eyes network
You're either an intelligence services employee who has just violated Top Secret classification of information, or a pundit who's making wild-ass guesses. No bets which one I consider to be the more likely.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Ron Davis,
Key finished? If not by any instrument of state, then maybe in the much scaled eyes of at least 20,000 voters in 2017.
I'm sure he's quaking in his pricey Prime Ministerial shoes at such a prospect. Teflon John looks likely to be living to lie another day.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Idiot Savant,
He’s violated the Public Records Act.
And faces a terrifying maximum fine of... $5,000.
I want jail time, not a paltry fine that he'll probably not even notice; if he were fined the maximum possible which, we all know, is incredibly unlikely. -
Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to dcnbwz,
The emails should be accessible through 5 eyes?
Fuck's sake, people. 5 Eyes is not a global panopticon that automatgically sees and stores every email of every person on the planet forever and always. We're talking about something that happened over three years ago!
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to matthew,
You mean set loose the state's forensic IT capabilities on GMail or Yahoo? hah!