Democrats warn Republicans of web insecurity flaw

THE US DEMOCRATIC National Committee has written to its opposite number in the Republican party to warn them that they have a security hole on one of their websites.

According to Associated Press reports, Democrat researchers have found that a Republican Party website set up to recruit GOP volunteers exposes users' e-mail addresses for all the world to see.

Once you have logged on to the Republican National Committee Web through a standard registration process available to all users, you can download the entire address list.

DNC executive director Tom McMahon told the RNC chief of staff Kelley McCullough that it was pretty important that "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."

Not surprisingly, the Republicans dismissed the security hole claim as a cheap political stunt. It seems that they have not taken any steps to close any flaw yet either in fact they are denying it exists at all.

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