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Dear Editor:
When news of a hacker’s invading Carmel’s civic computing systems, the city’s freelance spokesperson told the press:
“There was no private information compromised. Carmel’s city website only contains public information.”
If that were true, why was the FBI called in to investigate? When I access the city website, am I hacking?
If all the information is public, what’s to hack? As the dictionary tells us, a hacker “uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.”
Clearly, there’s more here than meets the hack. Or the lack of a hack.
Bill Shaffer
Carmel