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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.
Attacking Scientology is one thing. We all know that it is a crock of crap. However, when somebody hacks a VP candidate, the FBI and Secret Service will react strongly.
Translation: Wikileaks has been down for hours.... Wonder why?
"Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
Note that there is no easy way to tell if the material on Wikileaks is genuine or a hoax.
Wired has confirmed from one sender, Amy McCorkell, that the displayed message from her to Sarah Palin is genuine.
Sarah Palin is proof that there is no glass ceiling for women, as long as you're not ugly, have fufilled your reproductive obligations, don't have any actual power, will be subordinate to a man, seem clueless, and hiring you will keep a black man out of the white house.
the scuttlebut on /b/ yesterday was that no, Anon did not download a backup file, and got cold feet when he realised where he was and that partyvans would be dispatched shortly. There was much crying and gnashing of teeth among /b/tards yesterday, I tell you, who were hoping for complete copies of the e-mails, and were denied.
1) Yahoo e-mail account
2) Password was her zip code
3) Prominent public figure
4) No attempt to disguise her identity in the user name
Are the over 30 year olds really that stupid? This is stuff I'd expect from my grandmother, not a governor/VP candidate.
The sad thing is the media isn't going to note that her behavior was unsafe. Instead it will be the dirty hacker's fault, nevermind that the account has likely been "hacked" several times. Even if it hasn't it sure as hell would be if this info wasn't made public and the account was shut down.
It will really twist my nuts if:
1) Everything in the account becomes a inadmissible when an investigation of the legality of the account is conducted.
2) The issue of the McCain/Palin ticket's technological illiteracy is not brought up. Maintaining the security of your e-mail account is something every user has to be able to do, and that includes using a real password. And, no, I don't think Biden's a competant human either, but the top of that ticket hasn't really given me reason to worry, yet...
Fuck, people are stupid. But nevermind that, it's those damn tricky kids... so crafty these days!
If they really were trying to prove corruption they'd have surely hacked the other candidates as well.
I finally found these emails on the web. They are a bunch of goody-goody feel good mush. There was nothing incriminating there, just some stuff that looked like an obvious hoax by a Palin supporter. That you are writing to an official doesn't mean it's official business. It's an easy "defense" if anyone tries to make a case of the emails. Plus she gets the privilege of claiming she was victimized without having anything really compromising or incriminating being released. Read the prose, it's made to give her a particular appearance and you don't see anything incriminating. Also look at the supposed text by the person from Anonymous. They use proper capitalization everywhere except for the group the supposedly represent. Why no capital A? Its Always a Capital A. But this person screws it up twice in the same text? They weren't in a hurry, they just didn't fake it correctly.
Just callin' it like I see it.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/17/palins_yahoo_account_hacked.html
This is from the Washington Post
"Among the e-mails released as part of the records request in June were several from Frye asking a state official whether private e-mail accounts and messages sent to BlackBerry devices are immune to subpoena, then reporting the answer to the governor and her husband, Todd, who also uses a Yahoo! mail address."
She's screwed. She's using her personal address to ask if here blackberry account can't be subponea'd. It looks pretty conclusive to me that she was doing or planning to do bad things with her personal accounts to keep the courts from getting ahold of it easily. So says the Washington Post, and well, that's about as good as it gets.
You think they're the same people? Anonymous isn't an organisation. It's a meme complex, nothing more. It's a collective term used for the posters on a variety of independent imageboards sharing a common culture of in-jokes, comic references, stock trolls and memes. Some Anons protest scifags; others crack email accounts; others go on Habbo Hotel dressed as Samuel L. Jackson and announce that the pool's closed; others grief furries on Second Life; others go to online memorials for teen suicides and declare the dead kid an hero. Although actually, it's usually ebaumsworld doing that stuff and not Anonymous at all.
It's actually very unlikely that the Anonymous we're dealing with here have anything to do with the Scientology campaign. That's mostly moved off the chans to its own dedicated forums now. Most of the sentiment among the Anonymous mainstream is that protestfags are part of the cancer that is killing /b/.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Since I've been watching this since it started, I think a bit of clarification is in order.
The guy who originally cracked the account immediately went online and started telling everyone about it, giving them all the info to get in.
Someone else [referred to as a 'white knight'] decided to change the password and then sent an email to Palin's daughter letting her know what happened, the email he sent included the new password so she could log in. He posted a screenshot of this email [WITH the password in it!] and everyone started trying to log in again trying to change the password themselves.
This triggered Yahoo's automatic security and the account was shut down. Eventually it was taken down entirely.
One thing I have to say is that I wish the original person who had cracked the account had actually saved everything onto his hard drive and uploaded it to rapidshare before divulging the information. We had a huge opportunity to get all sorts of juicy info on Palin and it was thrown away by idiots, who only took a couple screenshots to 'prove' anything.
And yes, I do realize that this is a gross invasion of privacy, but you know what, I honestly don't care. The government's been spying on us through illegal wiretaps, it's nice to see the tables get turned for once. Also, using a yahoo account for government business!? It was asking for trouble.