Former Villa Park Council Bob McGowan sent this reply regarding our earlier post of the Greater Orange News eBlog's post about OUSD Trustee Kathy Moffat's campaign website:
Dear RedCounty/OC Blog,
You have republished patently false information distributed by the anonymous and cowardly "Greater Orange News eBlog". They use at least 10 aka alter egos.
The Santiago Creek Greenway Alliance has nothing at all to do with Kathy Moffat except that I volunteer to maintain both of their websites. After creating Moffat's website on a free spot at NetFirms I opened a separate account that is only home to kmoffat.org
The premise of that hit piece is that Santiago Creek Greenway Alliance is paying to promote Moffat's re-election. THIS IS A TOTAL FALSEHOOD!
They had someone invade my password protected accounts at NetFirms and obtained my personal information where my credit card information was stored. Then felt free to publish my data over their unsigned network.
Please look at the bottom of www.moffat.org and click on "Account Verification" to see her account page at NetFirms hosting.
This group has made many outrageous reports and charges that later have proven to have to have no merit.
Sincerely,
Bob McGowan
Well crap, if you're only using a password to secure your account that's pretty lame data security. Hire a computer foresnics expert to dig into the digital footprints. But if you only use a hook up to keep outsiders out, don't be surprised when it gets busted into pretty easily.
Posted by: DanC | November 03, 2006 at 10:13 AM
Once again we see that No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!!!
Posted by: Sorry Bob... | November 03, 2006 at 11:02 AM
Orange Net News obtained the registration information about the OUSD Candidate Kathy Moffat's website on-line at the WHO IS registration site of Network Solutions. No password was obtained, no laws were broken. Website information is legally available to anyone. In addition,no personnel information about Mr. McGowan was obtained from the site other than his address, which as a former Villa Park Councilman is readily avaiable and his telephone number. None of that information was included in our report except to report that his street address was the address used to register the website (we did mention the street but not the address).
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Posted by: Orange Net News | November 03, 2006 at 05:39 PM