Using "Snagit" on VBulletin

[LauraM]

In order to ask my question, I have to give some background, lol. So,...........

A good friend of mine was in a car accident several years ago and as a result of her injuries, she could no longer work as a horse trainer as she had been, and has been fighting insurances for settlement since.

During this time, her mother started a website for women's discussions that have hidden forums as well as general access forums on which, of course, my friend has posted. She has also posted on my forums quite a bit and helps me out there as a moderator (mine being an equine forum). Recently, the other side's lawyers used a program called Snagit to copy every single one of this woman's posts on both forums. Their premise is (this is so stupid) that she has become a computer internet addict and that she "chose to be a computer addict when she could have went out and got a real job." The posts actually ended up being about 6 per day over the last several years......... :roll eyes:

Anyway, the thing is, some of what Snagit got was from the hidden forums on TWP. Now, only members that have been GIVEN access are able to access the hidden forums, and we always have members post for a while before being given access, or are personally known by one of the staff who can vouch for them. And we have not given anyone new access to those forums in a long time.

So, my question is, .......if I understand the forums software correctly, nothing can access those hidden forums without permission, correct? So it had to have been one of our longtime members who used Snagit to get those hidden forums' posts, right? Or, would Snagit work by grabbing those posts, whether or not the forums were hidden?

If it had to have been member who had access to the hidden forums and used Snagit on them, is there any way to track that?

Thanks for any information you can give me!