Comments on: Media leaks prompt HP board shake-up

Computer giant has been investigating media leaks, prompting one board member to resign.

[kyle172]

Send her to Jail

I'm sorry but if you need to spy on someone sit outside there house is fine. But when it comes to personal communcations this is wrong. This lady maybe head of HP or whatever position she is but she is not the NSA or FBI so she should be put in jail

[heystoopid]

Madam Chairperson

Madam Chairperson Patricia D., at HP, it appears on current information to hand, has seemingly brought HP into a form of disrepute and breached numerous California State and US Federal laws at the same time, by the hiring of private investigators to knowingly and willingly bypass these rules and regulations, to obtain the information in an illegal illicit manner!

Oh the shame and scandal of it all, especially telling these fibs to SEC, explaining the reason for a corporate director's resignation, and allowing Chris Hurd, to not elaborate the real reasons for Tom Perkins resignation!

Looks like Chris Hurd, will really have to earn his money the hard way from now on , in damage control mode! , perhaps more resignations and additional house cleaning is required at board level as well, that be the question?

Incredibly sleazy boardroom scandal

If the reports are accurate that Chairwoman Dunn's investigation
relied on identity theft and pretexting to hunt down the leaker,
her investigation was much worse than the leak itself.

If Dunn would use those tactics against her own board of
directors, what tactics were used against the reporters from the
Wall Street Journal and CNET who published the leaks? The SEC,
the FTC and the Department of Justice should investigate this
fully.

Kudos to Tom Perkins for doing the ethical thing by resigning.

[Gasaraki]

NBC

Actually Newsweek has an article on this 2 days ago. CNET has learned... a little late. =)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14687677/site/newsweek/

[markdoiron]

Actually...

Actually, if cNet hadn't precipitated the entire incident, Newsweek would have had nothing to report.

:-)

mark d.

[kamwmail-cnet1]

P Dunn: Another Facist from UC Berkley.

Another typical facist liberal. If you don't agree with her, she'll just use every ghestopo tactic to nail you. Personal privacy? What's that? I'm surprised she didn't go after the freedom of the press as well.

Sieg Heil!

[thatkelly]

Not Typical

I would think it would be impossible to be a facist liberal, unless we also have atheist Christians.

[heritagejd]

UC Berkley

Really, UC at Bezerkley!

JDH

[M C]

LOL at CNet...

...apparently, they can't get smart unidentified sources (who uses their home phone for major corporate leaks?).

And then, because their newsroom isn't set up for much of a "hard news" operation beyond creating new Apple-related headlines, they couldn't even manage to profit from the resulting scandal. MSNBC/Newsweek ate their lunch, drank their milk, and took their brownie for later.

[missingamerica]

Spying! Oh, horrors!

Tsk, tsk, Patricia. Don't you know the rules?

You can spy on the workers, you can spy on your fellow competitors, you can spy on the government, and you can spy on your customers.

But thou shalt NEVER spy on your fellow board members.

*(Feel free to substitute "screw" for "spy on".)*

[Sonicsands]

leaking confidential info is also wrong

Too many people are coming down on HP but completely ignoring the initial offence. What the directors did in leaking confidential corporate info was just as wrong, if not more so. Corporate privacy does not take a backseat to personal privacy. If you violate a confidentiality agreement, you subject yourself to be investigated. Pure and simple.

[missingamerica]

Say what? Corporate privacy outweighs personal privacy?

Wow, that's scary...

So if a corporation that is committing a crime (say, insider trading to use a "least harm" example) suspects you might be telling the FBI or the SEC about it, the corporation should be entitled to hack your phone records, perhaps break into your house, or whatever else it takes (who knows - kidnap your children?) to protect the "corporation", which is really a synonym for the directors, board members and the senior executives?

Ain't it great, we've now got people advocating a system where some should be above the law based upon economic status...