DNC Warns RNC About Recruiting Web Site
This from AP via Breitbart.com:
The top executive at the Democratic National Committee notified his GOP counterpart Monday that a Republican Party Web site set up to recruit GOP volunteers does not hide users' e-mail addresses from prying eyes.
The addresses can be accessed with a few simple computer key strokes after logging on to the Republican National Committee Web through a standard registration process available to all users.
In his letter to RNC chief of staff Kelley McCullough, DNC executive director Tom McMahon said: "In this time of heightened concern over the security of critical personal and financial information, participants in our political process should have every confidence that our political organizations and parties are taking every possible precaution to protect them from fraud and identity theft."
The RNC Web site appears to give access only to e-mail addresses, not other private information. Republican officials said users are protected and have the option to unsubscribe from certain lists.
"Our Web site is completely secure," RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said. "This is another cheap political stunt not grounded in reality."
McMahon assured McCullough that the DNC did not store any of the RNC's user data. "Nor were you 'hacked,'" he added. "This flaw was found through normal usage of your Web site and any GOP.com user could do the same."
My question is, why was the DNC intentionally probing (a nice word for "hacking") the RNC website for weaknesses in the first place?