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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.
Mod parent up. This is actually a case of cracking that can not in any way be said to be hacking. The guy cracked the password. No hacking involved at all.
By Palin using yahoo, it's not closely watched and she can conduct official business off the record. It's very poor form to do so and is the real story here.
So, she should have used the telephone to do her off the record business?
Or are telephones taped now for governors? If they aren't, then why is email so special?
Not trolling, I'm serious here.
* government users should not take yahoo (who ever came to that idea?)
That's the real story here. Palin, a Vice President candidate, is using private email addresses in order to hide things from investigators. Screw the "hacker" -- discovering and reporting this kinda thing, if it had been done for Obama, would have the Fox Noise jerkasses nominating him for a medal. He'd be interviewed daily. "So, just how heroic ARE you fighting back against such a corrupt, corrupt regime?
Don't get too distracted here. The real story is "Palin is hiding something."
Though there seem to be some people that agree with your distortion the ACTUAL GUY WHO READ THE EMAILS said there was nothing incriminating. And your opinion seems to rest on this sentence from your article:
"And, he said later, she appropriately uses her personal Yahoo account for political activities."
When read carefully that means the email is being used appropriately, which means state business that is public is not discussed there.
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Funny, I clicked on every word in your post, and none of them were links to this damning evidence you keep talking about.
The most I've heard is that a few emails might have been marked "CONFIDENTIAL", but nothing explaining whether those emails are official government business or something related to her personal political career.
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