Factchecking ST

Andy Ho has a piece today in ST Review (Apr 30, 2005) in which the the carnard about CZ's site being hacked into is once again repeated:

That blog required a password and was meant only for his friends. Apparently, one of them - or some outsider who perhaps cracked the password - put his errant posts together and e-mailed them to the PSC and the media.

I've discussed this before, so I'm just going to say this really quick here: no hacking, cracking or what have you was needed for someone to get to the offending posts. How else did I get to see them before they were taken down? And you don't have to believe me either, see what CZ's own friends have to say.

Once again: CZ's privacy was--in my opinion--infringed upon. But it wasn't because someone maliciously hacked into anything. In fact, the discovery was most likely purely accidental.

A small detail, no doubt, but I expect ST to be better than this, seeing that it is the premier newspaper in the land it has had two weeks to get this right, and considering that unlike us Joe Bloggers, it actually can afford to pay for factchecking (hat tip the "friend" for pointing out that ST never claimed to be the premier newspaper in the land).

UPDATE: Ivan pointed me to an article by a friend of CZ published in Today. Reasonably written and engages my sympathies (though in my case, he's preaching to the choir, in a sense). What's more interesting is that a better paragraphed version of what he says can be found on his own blog. Incidentally, he does not believe that CZ's blog was hacked. ADD: The article is now also available on his blog.

UPDATE 2: Aiyahwhatever has a critique of the Ho piece. cH as well. And Singapore Ink.

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