the dangers of e-mail

Farnaz Fassihi was covering the war in Iraq for the Wall Street Journal. During her time in Iraq, she wrote an e-mail to friends and family about what was really going on over there. Unfortunately for her, her friends and family passed her email on, and the Journal found about it. Now the reporter is said to be on a "vacation" until after the election.

Read more about it here and here.

It is sad that she is suffering such consequences for what she terms as "a private e-mail to my friends as I often do about once a month, writing them about my impressions of Iraq, my personal opinons and my life here".