Comments on: HP's chief executive linked to journalist probe

E-mails link Mark Hurd for the first time to the company's controversial internal investigation of leaks to the news media.

Guilt by association

This story is written in a way the juxtaposes elements which are not illegal (such tracked email and having a PI watch someone) and Bill Lockyear's stated intent to prosecute the pretexting fraud allegedly involved. That creates the impression that Mark Hurd and HP's ethics director will be the subject of criminal charges. Is that impression accidental or intentional?

[Too Old For IT]

Sleep with the dogs, wake up with the fleas

Mark Hurd's days are numbered. You heard it here first.

[marileev]

Hurd's Line in the Sand

Mark Hurd'll probably come out looking pretty clean after all is said and done. Last week he drew a line in the sand and has tried to distance himself from Patricia Dunn and her bad business practices put the whole organization's credibility on the line:

"Inappropriate investigative techniques will not be employed again, they have no place in HP." http://www.iwantmyess.com/?p=100

His approval of the bogus product specs emails sent to CNET's Dawn Kwamoto won't cause his downfall.

[son of a computer]

Media serving their own agenda

Scandal has been fodder for "news" likely for as long as humans could communicate, so it is no surprise that this scandal is in the news.

The slant of the stories, and the disparity of coverage between the leak aspects and the investigation aspects of the scandal appear to be at least in part rooted in the fact that the media was on the "wrong" side of the leak, and the "right" side of the certain aspects of investigation.

While illegal activity should be prosecuted and condemned, aggressive investigation is a reasonable and proper response to the unethical and possibly illegal activity involved in the leak.

It seems that the reporters of this story are painting the investigation as wrong because there own were being investigate.

[son of a computer]

correction

It seems that the reporters of this story are painting the investigation as wrong because their own were being investigated.

[tech_no_man]

Ethics Lawyer couldn't have been . . . . . .

HP's board and counsel for ethics couldn't have been too ethical now could they? If they figured (which most people's ethics are, "don't get caught") they could do what nobody is supposed to be able to do. That is brake laws and think they were going to get away with it.

[choc1]

How ironic!

Has anybody picked up on the irony of this huge kerfuffle over some questionable, possibly illegal, actions to find a leaker when at the same time the President is trying to pass a bill to make torture legal, contravening the Geneva Convention?

[drfrost]

How Ironic

It amazes me that people spend so much time going after the president and deriding his efforts against terrorism and mention nary a comment about the extreme islamists beheading our countrymen on television.

Go read the bill that congress is working on and get a clue.

[bayny]

Are we really surprised?

After all that has been exposed of H-P's actions and questionable ethics through the past week, are we really surprised to find that the company's CEO was aware of the scandal? I don't think so, but it will be interesting to see how the rest of this all plays out.

The only thing that is truly surprising to me is that H-P, one of the largest computer-based technology firms in the world, did not employ more secure communications measures in the transmissions of highly questionable, and possibly illegal, e-mails. If people are not aware of the threats of e-mail security they should check http://www.essentialsecurity.com/security_basics.htm. However, you'd think H-P would know these things...

[lewissalem]

I like to be spied on..

..it makes me feel important.