Oy.

[dsrtao]

Shall we assume, for the sake of argument, that your politicos are not substantially more technologically literate than the Italians?

http://www.enricozini.org/2008/cazzeggio/redditi.html

[The Italian tax-revenue service published everyone's incomes. Don't worry, nobody could see it because the site was very slow under the load.... How do you say "I was Slashdotted" in Italian?]

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[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Heh. Those crazy Italians!

Saw this on Reddit the other day and is somewhat relevant to your post: Italian politco hotlinked someone's personal photo album, didn't reply to requests to desist, image substitution enacted with porn, not noticed yet:

http://www.sionmc.com/storace/stealing.htm