The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40
I find the writer to be a bit of a dick in his responses. Yes, the city IT may not be at the same level as Google engineers, but there’s no need to mock their ballpark estimates, and after the mistake there’s no need to be a jerk about it. Be forthright about the error.<p>Consider being on the other side of this, due to a careless mistake the data for many people is exposed on a random strangers hard drive. Asking for an independent third party verification is reasonable.<p>Bringing lawyers in the mix was also unnecessary. And if more people follow in the authors actions then the state level FOIA laws may be put at risk over the long term.