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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
My question is, how did it get out?
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This question in particular struck a chord with me.
The issue at hand is that several people don't understand the consequences of written records, and considering how email, twitter, and FB messages work on a technological level, it'd be crazy to assume that any of it was actually private.
Even for private messages sent online, you should imagine that they are mailed without any envelope with all the parts printed on the same side of the same sheet of paper, and that it is physically impossible to deliver unless each person handling it reads the entire message and photocopies it each time they handle it. Not to mention, some of the handlers are handlers because they can make money by selling information contained in those messages (this applies, in particular, for Facebook and Gmail).
As for Yahoo! Groups: last I recall, the default settings make the group easily viewable to the public. I haven't checked, but chances are, someone can probably go online and dig up that incriminating message mentioned in the OP right now.
When people wonder why I'm such a tech advocate in some areas but an ultra-Luddite in others, this is why.