I was playing golf with a TV ad production production guy and a criminal defense attorney who's also been a prosecutor and FBI agent. I thought I'd ask the video guy if he'd heard about the Mark Kennedy ad flap.
He hadn't, so I summarized.
"I'm more into music than politics, and I don't see that much difference between the candidates. But Kennedy's ads — that attack stuff — turn me off," he said.
He does a lot of work for a company you would recognize. I asked him how he secured his client files that were shared on the Web. His procedures were much like my own firm's. "It's not rocket science to make them secure," he said.
In fact, it's not even science, at least what we'd have to do to set up secure ftp sites for our clients.
The guy who knew the ad business but nothing about the politics and the defense attorney who knew a bit about the case and a lot about crime had the same, unprompted reaction: "These guys aren't stupid. I wonder if they wanted the files to be found?"
