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"Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email
netbuzz writes "'Anonymous,' best known for its jousts with Scientology, has apparently hacked Sarah Palin's private Yahoo email account. Contents, including sample emails, an index, and family photos, have been posted by Wikileaks, which calls them evidence that the GOP vice presidential candidate has improperly used private email to shield government business from public scrutiny." Note that there is no easy way to tell if the material on Wikileaks is genuine or a hoax. Update by J : Genuine.
So far only two emails, some personal photos, a contact list and some inbox screenshots have been posted. Nothing incriminating.
Fight the power.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/group-posts-e-m.html
It has been confirmed by her campaign and Amy McCorkell, the sender of one of the emails that has been posted.
Slashdotted record?
This was on CNN a few minutes ago and they confirmed that the Secret Service was already involved in the investigation.
The "something or other" suggested is conducting public business using private email. For Federal officials, that's illegal, because it amounts to hiding your paper trail. Don't know if Alaska has a similar law for State officials, but even if it doesn't, hiding her actions is not what you'd expect from the reformer Palin claims to be.
Of course, even if proven, Palin will just add these charges to her list of Things That Never Happened, like her initial support for the Bridge to Nowhere.
Ok here's the full list of Wikileaks domains:
* http://www.wikileaks.org/
* https://secure.wikileaks.org/
* https://wikileaks.cx/
* http://wikileaks.org.uk/
* http://www.cauce.us/wiki/Wikileaks
* https://secure.wikileaks.be/
* https://secure.freedomsbell.org/ â" alternative name to bypass the Great Firewall of China
* https://secure.libertypen.org/ â" alternative name to bypass the Great Firewall of China
* https://secure.ljsf.org/ â" alternative name to bypass the Great Firewall of China
* https://secure.sunshinepress.org/ â" alternative name to bypass the Great Firewall of China
What the hell are you talking about? Anonymous the name attributed to (and embraced by) the many and varied denizens of 4chan's Random (/b/) board. They rose to fame with their protests against scientology, but anyone who has ever visited /b/ could tell you that:
1) Anonymous is a 'group' only in the loosest sense of the word. There's no organization, no leader, and no real agenda. It works more like flash mobs. One person suggests something, and if enough people go along with it to achieve critical mass, then it's epic. Otherwise, it's just a few internet nerds making idiots out of themselves.
2) Anonymous has no real code, moral stance, or ethical guideline. /b/ frequently delves into such subjects as drug use, murder, petty crime, and child porn.
3) Anonymous does everything they do for their very own personal amusement. Any claim to be standing on principle is really just part of the joke. Since anonymous is kind of an intersection of Slashdot and MySpace when it comes to demographics, you'll find you agree with many of their 'positions.' However, don't expect any real loyalty from them.
Formerly GNU/Anonymous Coward. This message has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
account recognizes
b-day 2/11/64
ZIP code 99687
for password change.
The zip code is of course that of Wasilla, Alaska.
It would seem that the republican VP candidate is at least twice as security aware as Paris Hilton. Paris' had just one security question, the name of her dog (Tinkerbell), while Palin had two extremely obvious security questions.
Of course, two times "nothing much" is not a lot at all..
In that case, you should worry if she is a dispensationalist and not if she is creationist as only dispensationalists believe in a rapture. BTW Woodrow Wilson was a creationist, fundamentalist and dispensationalist.
Bad Panda! No Bamboo for you! In matters of importance ACs will not be responded to. Want to say something critical,OK
There's no evidence that Anonymous was behind the epilepsy thing, and many have suggested that Scientologists did it to discredit Anonymous.
A state court recently upheld evidence in a case (I can't remember exactly when it was on Slashdot, but within the last month) in which a man stole information from a server and introduced it as evidence. If that's not enough legal precedent, then maybe a better route is to compare such a gathering of data to what happens to citizens by the NSA every day?
Quiz: True or False -- On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your middle name?
No, it's not. The US Secret Service working out of DC that protects former PsOTUS and FLsOTUS for up to ten years upon exiting their respective offices (it used to be lifetime), candidates for president are covered under this as well.
They also had a number of duties that until only recently put them under direction of the US Treasury and oversaw most if not all of the investigations therein. Before their move to the DHS they were assigned to investigate federal computer crime laws, a jurisdiction not removed with their transfer of ownership, as it were. Although publicly perceived as only protecting the president they are much like a handful of other somewhat small federal law enforcement agencies that do many other things than just what the public thinks they do. They were originally created in 1865 to go after currency counterfeiting, only being given the duty to protect presidents-and only informally-in 1901.
Good. Cheap. Fast. Pick Two.
You thought wrong.
Evidence seized illegally by law enforcement is inadmissible, unless it can be proven that they certainly would have come across it anyhow.
Ruaro, Randall P (GOV) Draft letter to Governor Schwarzenegger / Container Tax Thu, 8/28/08 12KB Read
Ruaro, Randall P (GOV) FW: DPS Personnel and Budget Issues Tue, 8/19/08 11KB Read
Ruaro, Randall P (GOV) Court of Appeals Nominations Sat, 8/16/08 11KB Read
Nizich, Michael A (GOV) another records request Fri, 8/15/08 5KB Read
Nizich, Michael A (GOV) FW: CONFIDENTIAL Ethics Matter Thu, 8/7/08 5KB Read
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There's a posting here from someone that observed the entire episode:
The story behind the Palin e-mail hacking
Pre-emptive warning: it's a partisan blog, but the explanation is quoted in full.
Short version:
The original cracker attributed his /b/ posting to another yahoo.com address. He claims to have done all this through a single proxy, but admits that he is a bit scared of the FBI at the moment.
Yes, its the Alaska Public Records Act.
http://cryptome.org/palin-email.zip
Have at
She's not a private citizen, she's a public person in a public position. By conducting work business on the Yahoo account, it basically became the State of Alaska's email address, NOT Sarah Palin's. So, while it's illegal to break into email, that information should be considered public records anyway. It was her mistake, and someone busted her. Maybe they "hacked" or whatever, but who cares? It was a good hack because it broke hidden public records out. Justice is served. Information wants to be free. This is way bigger than the individual now. He may perish for hacking, but the information will live on forever, and Justice will be served to Palin for breaking the Public Records laws.
Cool! Amazing Toys.
Obama is a socialist.
I live in the UK; I can assure you that he's actually a centrist, It's just that centre ground of US politics is so far to the right (compared to global politics), that anyone who expresses even the mildest left leaning thoughts is labeled a socialist over there. When he starts campaigning for nationalisation of major industries, then he'll be a socialist.
If I have nothing to hide, you have no reason to search me