Harvard Secretly Searched Deans' Email

theodp writes "Taking a page from HP's playbook, Harvard University administrators secretly searched the emails of 16 deans last fall, looking for a leak to reporters about a case of cheating. The deans were not warned about the email access and only one was told of the search afterward. Dean and CS prof Michael Smith said in an email Sunday that Harvard will not comment on personnel matters or provide additional information about the board cases that were concluded during the fall term. Smith's office and the Harvard general counsel's office authorized the search, according to a Boston Globe report. Smith's Harvard bio notes that his entrepreneurial experience included co-founding and selling Liquid Machines, where Smith coincidentally invented a software technique designed to keep unauthorized people from reading electronic documents."

anyone stupid enough

[v1]

to leak something USING the source's computers deserves to get caught. Just sayin'

Pelton

[xstonedogx]

This would never happen at Deandale! I mean Greendale!

Re:Who is Dean?

[paiute]

It's a last name, not first. It was Jeremy Dean and he ended up killing himself.

You never sausage a horrible thing.