Edinburgh Sucks! | Councillors email being read by Frater, McDougall & Hillson

Alistar Frater

Councillors email being read by Frater, McDougall & Hillson

By The Basa ⋅ May 8, 2006 ⋅

It seems EdSucks should have been more worried about the antics of Rosendale’s Fraudsters in Community Education. After building the website and email system myEdinburgh, and convincing staff and elected members to forward their email to a myEdinburgh address to allow web access to the mail what McDougall, Frater and Hillson never told their ‘johns’ was that by doing that it would be easy for them to access said person’s email and read it even before the ‘johns’ got hold of the stuff.

News of this came to EdinburghSucks last week in a series of meeting carried out around the city and follow-up emails.

There was once they bought a piano for some reason and I couldn’t believe it. I went down to their office to see what they had squandered the money on this time. I walked in and they were crowded round Frater’s computer on the right hand side after one of their so called power lunches around a round table in the middle. I asked them what they were doing and they said “Checking out the email”. I was gobsmacked when I saw them going through email boxes of people on the system where I clearly saw councillors email boxes there - they were laughing about it. I had rerouted my mail through myed on their advice to get it on the web when I wasn’t at work but after that I went back to the office and deleted all my email and closed the account on myed.

Our informants told us that when the myEdinburgh site was being set up, most of the councillors didn’t have any idea about the internet and this confirms what Ewan Aitken told the press EXACTLY one year ago today, that he was “Internet Illiterate“. The Cityconnect crew then started persuading council colleagues and councillors to re-direct their email through the myEdinburgh system to give them web access to their mail. However, it is now revealed that the reason for this was so that they could spy on those colleagues and councillors.

Why is our Lord Provost Lesley Hinds, Ewan Aitken and the rest of the former board of Directors (not forgetting Roy Jobson) continuing to cover up for these criminals - Rosendale, Hillson, McDougall and Frater. We can only assume that they have some amazing information that they themselves want to keep quiet. Rosendale was Company Secretary of the company.

All of the evidence to prove this will be available on the server log files and those are probably still available to the Council from the hosting company they use in Germany. EdinburghSucks will volunteer experts in the relevant field to help sort through the log files if required.

Another question worth answering, why would McDougall use public funds to buy a piano for the office of a council IT project company. Were they all Liberace fans? we are further reliably informed that the piano was never once played to anyone’s knowledge. Where is the piano today?