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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.
Pardon my ignorance, but who is this Sarah Palin, and why is she in the news all of a sudden?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
She's kind of got this whole hot milfy soccer mom look to her. I'd jam my cock into every orifice of her hot little body.
The only VP candidate I'd ever spank it to.
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Oh, yes, right. Whatever excuses can be found to (try to) justify publishing illegally-obtained materials...
That the other site carrying these is Gawker ought to tell you, how low Obama's fans are willing to stoop.
McCain, they said, is unqualified, because he is not using e-mail (never mind, that his repeatedly-broken hands make typing painful for him). And Sarah Palin is unfit because she has a personal e-mail account (with pictures of her children)?
Sorry, I don't believe this "change". So much so, one would be excused for suspecting, an anti-Obama provocateur has done this...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
And nothing even particularly related to Alaskan governance.
Y'know, if not even Anonymous can find any dirt, Palin's gotta be pretty clean. I'm surprised, but there you have it. The Internet holds wonders :)
I got a good laugh out of that... they're sicking the "Secret Service" on Anonymous... guys with dark glasses and big guns. Yeah, those guys will track down these hackers pronto! NOT!
I'm fighting the urge to post an e-mail of an enemy, claiming it's a tip that should be followed. The only problem is, I don't hate anyone that much... too bad! It would have been fun. Any of you guys up for some random dead-end lead generation, just for some good-old immature back-to-college-like hacks? Here, I'll start: I'm 100% sure this is the A-hole who gave Anonymous Sarah's password. She's an insider with confidential info: roseanne.hughes@alaska.gov.
Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy.
Do you *really*, in a billion years, think that stupid, womb-with-legs bitch is in any way smart enough to use any kind of public key encryption software? And I mean under any circumstances, including full instructions downloaded from Google or with Phil Zimmerman standing right behind her telling her what to do.
Really? And on E-mails that are being delivered to a Yahoo account?
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
I suspect it shows that pretty much anybody, subjected to enough scrutiny, will fall afoul of the law.
How come Anonymous isn't trying to crack into Obama's accounts? I mean, other than the fact that he's never held a position important enough to be held to such exacting standards.
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
In Alaska, oil companies send every man, woman and child a check every year to keep them quiet about what they do to the environment. I seriously doubt they have a Sunshine law.
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It's probably even driven a few to suicide. "He drove", "He has driven". Learn to use the language before you try to sell yourself to a company, especially in a language driven field, 'kay? BTW, it's called a 'past participle'.
We cry and bitch and moan about warrantless government wiretapping, yet when some group of a-holes breaks into an elected official's personal email account and posts screenshots on the web, we see it as just some more dirt on a candidate. The best word that describes that is "despicable."
No, the fact that this is the only way to get information about these people that decide that they are above the law (Bush, Cheney, and now, Palin), is despicable. We, the people, shouldn't have to wait for somebody to do this in order for us to get information about what our publically elected officials are doing. If anything, I'll bet that this hack was a response to Pain's office ignoring court orders.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/17/palin.investigation/index.html
I don't respond to AC's.
Someone who at one end believes in Creation (therefore rejecting the very science that gives us - unfortunately - nuclear weapons, and the ability to refine petroleum products as well, not to mention explaining their very existence in a way the Bible (oddly!) omits) - and at the other end believes in an imminent Apocalypse (more irrationality). You would put the fate of Civilisation past present and future in their hands?
you had me at #!
Not to mention that from all appearances (I may be contradicted later), Sarah Palin's beliefs are probably pretty much mainstream among regular church-goers. The people really excoriating Palin are mostly militant atheist types who currently have the Democrat party's balls in a vise. People who are middle of the road, or undecided, look at such dialog and think the Democrats must be friggin' lunatics. Of course, most of them aren't movie stars, or have blogs, or news shows on MSNBC... but they do have numbers.
Dark Reflection
I think its wonderful that her email was hacked!
Im not sure why the republican lovers say this is a shocking invasion
Its Sarah Palins OWN fault for using Yahoo! as a personal e-mail account to conduct state business.
When the government does it to you, it's called the "Patriot Act."
Is the government publishing people's email contacts or messages for everyone to see?
No
the Patriot Act!
Why is it the liberals always whine about privacy, but it's conservatives privacy that always ends up being violated?
Lurk Moar
Sarah Palin is scary, and Anonymous is doing us a favor. Only the light of scrutiny will reform our government.
Then, lets have it all out. You know who is scary? Everyone on the left wing. You have a bunch of blue states with cities from New York to Philadelphia to Cleveland that have, through utter ineptness of 4 generations of Democratic rule, have replaced manufacturing greatness with crackhouses, and we would prefer our red states to not look like this. I mean, you can rag on our appalachia as back woods as much as you want, but at least when we wake up, we see beautiful hills and forests wheras you people have traffic and streets that smell like piss.
Yeah, we red states want to look like that. Go OBama.. Make the rest of the USA look like Chicago...
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More specifically it's because I'm a biologist dependant on federal funding
Why can't you make something useful and sell it? Being dependent on the federal government especially does not entitle you to run any portion of it.
This is my sig.
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Does this change in the least that Gov. Palin's privacy was rudely violated with a criminal act.
I, for one, hope both the hacker gets convicted AND wikileaks for aiding and abetting. Because that's what they did, they deserve to pay the piper.
Private email accounts, just like someone's post ARE OFF LIMITS. Mine is, yours is, and Gov. Palin's is too, obviously. What's next ? Her gynaecologist reports ? Are the obamatons truly that desperate ?
And ... to be honest ... don't you think that this display of utter lunacy is going to damage obama a lot ?
Pushing candidates forward with violence is something that works in the middle east among muslims. It will not work in America. In fact it will backfire badly.
People will start saying that obama has both a history and a current tendency to get lunatics violate people on his behalf. I mean an act like this makes it almost reasonable to send the FBI to go through every last paper and computer the Obama campaign touched, something that could, you know, easily take 2 months ...
You know I do wonder that myself. All lunatics seem to be on Obama's side, and every calm, controlled, you know, normal person seems to be on McCain's side. And this idiotic act is going to make that perception a lot stronger, for obvious reasons.
This hacker deserves to get shot, for stupidity alone.
Actually shoot-everything religious type people are on the side of Obama, actually :
There are also muslims in this world you know. They combine the religious fanatics and shoot-everything properties you so complain about ...
And ... they're obamatons too
Unless you disagree with the facts that hamas shoots or claim the "islamic resistance" is not religious.
Terrorists in the US, e.g. Bill Ayers, has also clearly stated his preference. Take a wild guess.
Hell, if Osama were still alive, we'd probably see a video of him threatening to destroy all other manhattan towers if americans choose mccain.
Must be a strange world you live in, where "redneck" and christian "religious fanatics" are the worst problems. Tell me, after the second star it was to the right, correct ?
"Socialism" to most conservatives is anyone who doesn't thump a Bible around and claim they personally speak for an omniscient, omnipotent being. It's anyone who dares question any war that a Republican starts. It's anyone who doesn't want to abolish taxes and leave the poor to the mercy of the streets. It's anyone who thinks that a poor, irresponsible teenager may be better off aborting her baby than raising it to be yet another poor, irresponsible teenager. It's anyone who doesn't see beyond Bush's C-student background and laughable vocabulary to see his true genius. It's anyone who thinks diplomacy is more than just aping bad John Wayne dialogue and blowing shit up. It's anyone who doesn't vote for whatever dunce/ditz of the moment the Republicans put on their ticket.
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