Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account hijacked, e-mails posted online

[Bob Juch]

On the heels of media reports that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was using a private Yahoo e-mail account (gov.palin@yahoo.com) to conduct Alaska state business, hackers have broken into the account and posted evidence of the hijack on Wikileaks.

An activist group calling itself ‘anonymous’ claimed responsibility for the compromise and released screenshots, photographs and the e-mail addresses of several people close to Palin, including her husband Todd and assistant Ivy Frye.

Full story:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1919&tag=nl.e539

[TheConfessor]

Isn't that illegal?

[silvercamaro]

I have confidence that phony e-mails purporting to be to or from Gov. Palin will appear before the election. Perhaps focus groups are currently being formed to determine what kind of smear might be scurrilous enough to swing votes.

[Rexer25]

I have confidence that phony e-mails purporting to be to or from Gov. Palin will appear before the election. Perhaps focus groups are currently being formed to determine what kind of smear might be scurrilous enough to swing votes.

They were quoting from them in the Enquirer.

I really wasn't looking, however.
Really

[silvercamaro]

They were quoting from them in the Enquirer.

I really wasn't looking, however.
Really

My avatar frightened you, didn't it?

[NellyLunatic1980]

I got an e-mail from Gov. Palin's Yahoo account once.

She told me to stop referring to her as Milfy McMooseburger.

[Bob Juch]

Isn't that illegal?

Hacking into the accounts and Palin's using the accounts to bypass government transparency are both illegal.

[Ann Onymous]

It wasn't me!! I'm a victim of identity theft!

[TheCalvinator24]

Isn't that illegal?

Hacking into the accounts and Palin's using the accounts to bypass government transparency are both illegal.

And of course, the unproved allegation that Governor Palin had done that justified the unquestionably illegal act of hacking her account.

[Estonut]

I got an e-mail from Gov. Palin's Yahoo account once.

She told me to stop referring to her as Milfy McMooseburger.

What an intelligent, well spoken, coherent comment!

[The Carp]

I got an e-mail from Gov. Palin's Yahoo account once.

She told me to stop referring to her as Milfy McMooseburger.

What an intelligent, well spoken, coherent comment!

Then what is it doing in a political thread?!?!? These are for cutting and pasting opinions you find posted in the tinfoil-hat area of the internets!

[Thousandaire]

Isn't that illegal?

Hacking into the accounts and Palin's using the accounts to bypass government transparency are both illegal.

And of course, the unproved allegation that Governor Palin had done that justified the unquestionably illegal act of hacking her account.

If you fool a service like Yahoo into giving out a password by providing easily obtainable personal information, is that still considered hacking? It requires very little technical expertise.

The perp is a hack of a hacker.

[sunflower]

Well that seals it for me...Sarah Palin uses yahoo instead of AOL? I can't vote for that ticket now.




(that's to reflect how ridiculous I think some of the political posts are, I am not serious)

[Bob Juch]

Isn't that illegal?

Hacking into the accounts and Palin's using the accounts to bypass government transparency are both illegal.

And of course, the unproved allegation that Governor Palin had done that justified the unquestionably illegal act of hacking her account.

Of course; two wrongs make a right, right?

[TheCalvinator24]

Hacking into the accounts and Palin's using the accounts to bypass government transparency are both illegal.

And of course, the unproved allegation that Governor Palin had done that justified the unquestionably illegal act of hacking her account.

Of course; two wrongs make a right, right?

Only in the minds of some.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

It would be cute if she and her husband used the account to send love notes to each other. It's probably more private than doing it on a bored.

[earendel]

Isn't that illegal?

Hacking into the accounts and Palin's using the accounts to bypass government transparency are both illegal.

And of course, the unproved allegation that Governor Palin had done that justified the unquestionably illegal act of hacking her account.

It isn't an unproven allegation. The governor has used Yahoo to bypass the official e-mail system so that the messages would be exempt from the Open Records Act. A number of people in Alaska government have come forth with proof of this.

[jaybee]

Our local paper is carrying this as it looks like the #1 hacker suspect is a University of Tennessee student (and son of a democratic state representative). The hacker claimed to be looking for scandle info, but found only normal stuff like family pictures etc.

[Estonut]

It isn't an unproven allegation. The governor has used Yahoo to bypass the official e-mail system so that the messages would be exempt from the Open Records Act. A number of people in Alaska government have come forth with proof of this.

How, exactly, do you prove why she used Yahoo?

[thguy65]

Similarly, the folks at The Onion managed to get a peek at Obama's G-mail inbox

[silvercamaro]

Similarly, the folks at The Onion managed to get a peek at Obama's G-mail inbox

LOL!

I love the stuff that skewers everybody. That's fair.