DCist: FOX 5 Reporter Snags McCain Campaign Blackberry Loaded with Info

NCinDC

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:34:01 -0500

I heard the phone number for Cindy McCain's dealer is in there.

downtown rez

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:20:26 -0500

Publish the Address Book!

Bethesdaist

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:19:29 -0500

I want a Blackberry for $20, I don't care whose phone numbers are left on it. My office just gives us note pads and the nubs of old pencils for supplies.

Krisa

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:15:09 -0500

There was obviously nothing extraordinary in the phone, or it would have been in the article. Instead just a bunch of old phone numbers. Oh, sorry, 'CONFIDENTIAL' phone numbers, which makes it sound more intriguing. What a story that might have been but never was..

Jim D

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:12:07 -0500

Oh, how I hope, how I hope Sarah Palin's cell number is in there. This is the Washington equivalent of Paris Hilton's sidekick getting hacked.

glasswindow

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:56:05 -0500

Hmm, I smell a reporter thinking she can find herself a breaking story for $20.

jamie

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:55:19 -0500

Praise the stars that he didn't win. I'm guessing by March, one of his staffers would have left the nuke codes on a coffee table in Afghanistan. @fatkidspecial, really? This is hilarious. And I'm sorry, being exhausted is no excuse here any more than it would be if he was running the country. It was incompetence plain and simple. This is basic procedure for anyone getting rid of electronics equipment. While I doubt we'd even sell a cell phone at all, even in my tiny office we never let a PC go with a hard disk still in it. Besides, they've had plenty of time to sleep since the campaign ended. It's not like they're working on a transition plan or something.

IMGoph

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:43:22 -0500

maybe we'll find something salacious that the candidate did and we'll impeach him before he even takes the oath. wait, he didn't even win? oh well, much ado about nothing then. lesson to future campaigns. do the opposite of what this campaign did, and you can't fail.

fatkidspecial

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:24:45 -0500

McCain is definitely going to lose now. Seriously, this stupid thing has gotten way more press than necessary. It was a dumb mistake by an exhausted, demoralized campaign worker. I think 90% of the young staffers that worked for him are total a-holes, (from many unfortunate experiences with them) but really what's the big deal with making light of this now. I'd like one of the phones just to call people up and brag about the election, kinda like calling England on the 4th, but seriously this has been getting way too much attention. If it had naked pics of palin or cindy... that'd be a story.

iAManugget

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:19:26 -0500

RANSOM RANSOM RANSOM

stmove

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:53:22 -0500

Holy mind blowing incompetence. Since that is the very first thing a person in charge of selling off hardware does, as opposed to removing all Maverick themed blackberry cases

Kev29

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:49:24 -0500

Can anyone tell me why the bleepin' Wilson Bridge is so backed up!?

monkeyrotica

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:43:15 -0500

Mavericks NEVER wipe confidential data. That's just how they roll.

Mrs14thandYou

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:39:26 -0500

It's going to be an early X-mas for me when some of those emails are released. What a fantastic Roman holiday.

qbert

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:31:48 -0500

When I saw the post about the sale, I wondered if this could happen. But I figured no way they'd be selling that stuff without scrubbing it. Unbelievable.

EdTheRed

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:30:41 -0500

For the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster...FAIL.