Palin Email Hacker Found

mortonda writes to tell us that the person responsible for breaching Sarah Palin's private email account has been found. We discussed the breach last Wednesday, shortly before the hacker, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, posted a message detailing his methods. Wired has a story examining the potential legal consequences for the hacker.

Comments

Re:just tell me

[unity100]

i wouldnt want to disrupt your daily dinner routine. please.

Seems != Guilty Even for a Republican

[WED Fan]

Do you know that she seems to have been using the account for gov business?

(Emphasis added is mine.)

So now, "seems" is enough to rate a finding of guilty in your book? It's funny, I've seen many a political discussion on /. and when the person in question is a liberal/Democrat, then "seems" means we should either find the person innocent in the court of public opinion, or at least reserve judgement until a court renders theirs, and then maybe even say the person was railroaded. However, when the person in question is a conservative/Republican, then "seems" is the equivilent of caught-red-handed-flail-them-lock-them-up-throw-away-the-key.

It seems to me that many who are afraid the "other side" will destroy the Constitution are all too ready to destroy it when its someone they disagree with who will be the victim.

Not a very open-minded, nor enlightened approach.

Please have the courtesy of reserving judgement until such a time all the facts are in.

Re:This Just In

[Rob the Bold]

Palin wants to continue the policies of the current White House administration where everyones privacy can be violated by the White House without any consequences even though it breakes federal law.

Even if that's true, it's unrelated to the matter at hand.

I'd say it's relationship would be described as "identity"

It's hypocritical of you to stand for privacy rights when it suits your needs, but then act as an apologist for people who violate the privacy laws already on the books.

Yes, yes it is. Tit for tat. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Don't dish it out if you can't take it. Etc. Etc. Etc. Republicons can violate any constitutional protections they wish on their own say-so, but pry just a little into one of their lives and suddenly they're the champions of liberty. Wellsir, how did you know -- before it was cracked -- that Sarah Palin's Yahoo account didn't contain useful information for the "War on Terror"? She could have been planning to smuggle a suitcase bomb into the Blair House. How could we afford, as a nation, for this kid not to have hacked her account?