How do you know that a person who received his emails didn't pass it on to New Matilda?

You don't.

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@lloydslights wrote:

But who went into the Professor's computer and then reported the contents to the New Matilda?  Surely not the University's computer administrator.  

 

DEB

 

 

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Obviously the New Matilda have an agenda in exposing ppl by hacking into computers. Hacking is illegal. The New Matilda seem to find this fine detail irrelevant.

 

and the  New Matilda  is owned by Mia Freedman who compares gay people to paedophiles on national TV

 

 

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U-har.  "The thick plottens"

 

She has not been a favourite of mine for many years.

 

DEB

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@am*3 wrote:
How do you know that a person who received his emails didn't pass it on to New Matilda?

You don't.

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"and the New Matilda is owned by Mia Freedman who compares gay people to paedophiles on national TV"

No, she didn't. See your thread on that matter.

Proof required that New Matilda is owned by Mia Freedman.

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@am*3 wrote:
How do you know that a person who received his emails didn't pass it on to New Matilda?

You don't.

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Because: 

In correspondence seen by Fairfax Media, Professor Spurr said the emails were part of a longstanding joke with another person.

"These statements are not reflections of my views or his," he said.

"The comments that you refer to are largely to one recipient with whom I have had a whimsical linguistic game for many years of trying to outdo one another in extreme statements."

They were part of a game "that mocked extreme language", he said.

Professor Spurr said the emails did not reflect his personal views or his professional judgment of Aboriginal literature, which is part of his role as a consultant to the national curriculum review

Since when has Mia Freedman owned New Matilda?

it doesn't say anywhere in that article that his computer was hacked it says accessing his emails.. it could well have been whoever he sent the emails to

 

 

so its a big "IF" that his computer was hacked

 

 

 

 

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:
How do you know that a person who received his emails didn't pass it on to New Matilda?

You don't.

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IF: "Obviously the New Matilda have an agenda in exposing ppl by hacking into computers. Hacking is illegal. The New Matilda seem to find this fine detail irrelevant.

 

Having said that, ppl in high places need to be aware of such hackers and refrain from putting their innermost thoughts into easily accessed correspondence."

 

Perchance did you notice I didn't specify the Professor in my above post?

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The charge against Freya Newman wasn't ''hacking". It was "únauthorised access" which is quite different. If accusations are going to be made then the right terminology needs to be used. It hasn't been made clear yet whether the Professor's emails have been hacked into or if someone who received the emails passed them on. 

 

New Matilda are, I'm sure, quite aware that hacking is illegal, but Freya Newman didn't hack into the computer system therefore there is no reason for them to declare that she did.