Taliban accidentally CCs everybody on its mailing list
Living in fear of "replying all" to your company-wide emails? Hey, it could be worse. ABC News reports:
In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference. He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on his mailing list.
The names were disclosed in an email by Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official Taliban spokesperson, on Saturday. The email was a press release he received from the account of Zabihullah Mujahid, another Taliban spokesperson. Ahmedi then forwarded Mujahid's email to the full Taliban mailing list, but rather than using the BCC function, or blind carbon copy which keeps email addresses private, Ahmedi made the addresses public.
"Taliban have included all 4 of my email addresses on the leaked distribution list," tweeted journalist Mustafa Kazemi, a prolific Kabul-based tweeter with more than 9,500 followers. "Quite reassuring to my safety."
The list, made up of more than 400 recipients, consists mostly of journalists, but also includes an address appearing to belong to a provincial governor, an Afghan legislator, several academics and activists, an ... Afghan consultative committee, and a representative of Gulbuddein Hekmatar, an Afghan warlord whose outlawed group Hezb-i-Islami is believed to be behind several attacks against coalition troops.
Where's AOL's old "unsend" button when you need it? On the other hand, perhaps this is an opportunity to establish a listserv for Afghan peace talks?
Update: Looks like the Taliban's e-mail blunder has inspired a hashtag on Twitter: #TalibanSubjectLines.
> Taliban accidentally CCs everybody on its mailing list
> Living in fear of "replying all" to your company-wide emails? Hey, it could
> be worse. ABC News reports:
> In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine
> email last week with one notable difference. He publicly CC'd the names of
> everyone on his mailing list.
> The names were disclosed in an email by Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official
> Taliban spokesperson, on Saturday. The email was a press release he received
> from the account of Zabihullah Mujahid, another Taliban spokesperson. Ahmedi
> then forwarded Mujahid's email to the full Taliban mailing list, but rather
> than using the BCC function, or blind carbon copy which keeps email
> addresses private, Ahmedi made the addresses public.
> "Taliban have included all 4 of my email addresses on the leaked
> distribution list," tweeted journalist Mustafa Kazemi, a prolific
> Kabul-based tweeter with more than 9,500 followers. "Quite reassuring to my
> safety."
> The list, made up of more than 400 recipients, consists mostly of
> journalists, but also includes an address appearing to belong to a
> provincial governor, an Afghan legislator, several academics and activists,
> an ... Afghan consultative committee, and a representative of Gulbuddein
> Hekmatar, an Afghan warlord whose outlawed group Hezb-i-Islami is believed
> to be behind several attacks against coalition troops.
> Where's AOL's old "unsend" button when you need it? On the other hand,
> perhaps this is an opportunity to establish a listserv for Afghan peace
> talks?
> Update: Looks like the Taliban's e-mail blunder has inspired a hashtag on
> Twitter: #TalibanSubjectLines.
Looking thru all my email, it seems I didn't make that lits. Whew!
