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| Hackers Show Palin Used PERSONAL e-mail for Gov't Business! |
| 2008-09-18 |
| Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate. "This is a shocking invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them," the McCain campaign said in a statement. The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply. The disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration's use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business. The practice was revealed months ago - prior to Palin's selection as a vice presidential candidate - after political critics obtained internal e-mails documenting the practice by some aides. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #24 Meet the m'f@#@KER:via http://www.ace.mu.nu/ The son of state Rep. Mike Kernell has been contacted by authorities in connection with a probe into the hacking of personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Kernell told The Tennessean. Pic courtesy of My Pet Jawa Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, said his 20-year-old son David had been contacted by authorities investigating the hacking of PalinÂ’s personal e-mail account, the newspaper reported on its Web site this afternoon. The FBI and the Secret Service started a formal investigation Wednesday into the hacking, according to the Associated Press. |
| Posted by: Blinky Chase8934 2008-09-18 19:13 |
| #23 I don't do /b/ but I do lurk on 4chan. I love pulling their chain about voting for McCain. They get all frothed up really fast. /b/ is full of normalfags and spoiled children. I am not a normalfag or spoiled child. |
| Posted by: Sockpuppet of Doom 2008-09-18 18:57 |
| #22 Muggsey, how do you all find out things like this? Or is it a secret? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-09-18 17:42 |
| #21 Interesting thing about the proxies likely used for the Palin email break in. The actual proxies are located in Chicago, ILL of all places: network:OrgName:FDCservers.net LLC network:OrgID;I:JCLARKKENT2005-GMAILCOM network:Address:141 West Jackson Blvd, Suite 1135 network:City:Chicago network:StateProv:N/A network:PostalCode:60604 network:Country:US Gee, less than a mile from BO HQ... |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2008-09-18 17:31 |
| #20 VPRBUST? |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2008-09-18 17:07 |
| #19 Laying this on Obama after finding out it was 4chan is very weak IMHO. Had it been a lefty blogger or a lefty newsdump claiming to have done this, then yeah, point that finger at the DNC. 4chan is a cesspool first and... well, I was going to say 'political' or 'activist' second but neither one would be true. 4chan is a cesspool period. That's why I think this is a random jackass or two who happens to liek Obama because everyone else on teh intertubez seems to liek him too and it's kewl to screw with teh evul Republicans. I'll give Barry's camp a pass on this... but I DON'T give them a pass on failing to condemn this behavior. |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2008-09-18 16:36 |
| #18 4chan retards did this. Nothing shows that Obama camp had Fixed it for ya. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-09-18 14:50 |
| #17 Are you sure that Obama's official campaign had nothing to do with this? So far, there's no evidence, for or against the proposition. I know, presumption of innocence and all that, but . . . is it not odd that Obama has not issued a statement denouncing the breach of privacy? If we take the most favorable interpretation of events--that is, the Obama campaign had nothing to do with the hacking--it's stupid of them not to come out against it because it gives people room to imagine that they're in favor of it. I remember the last time a presidential candidate's overly-enthusiastic supporters (with or without official encouragement) did something like this. It happened 36 years ago. |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-09-18 14:28 |
| #16 4chan retards did this. Obama camp had nothing to do with it. Dude, Obama has enthusiastic retards like those at 4chan going mad on the internet in an orgy of slime. And all he does is stand up at his little teleprompter podium and say he wants his followers to get in people's faces like good little ****ing Nazis. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-09-18 14:24 |
| #15 By the time they track it back through the proxies, there's no telling who it will lead to. The first proxy log went to Chicago. Curious, no? |
| Posted by: Skunky Glaviling2596 2008-09-18 14:14 |
| #14 The Secret Service will take care of business on this one. I think arrests will happen before the end of the week. 4chan retards did this. Obama camp had nothing to do with it. |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2008-09-18 12:21 |
| #13 /B/ you say? Could have been worse, could have been LUE or m/ >_< m/ |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-09-18 11:42 |
| #12 So is this how 0bama knew that McCain wasn't sending e-mail? |
| Posted by: GK 2008-09-18 11:31 |
| #11 It is not hard to research the password recovery stuff. Mothers maiden name should be removed as a question as its too easy. Whoever hacked her account should go to jail and the folks at the AP should either go to jail or pay a hefty fine. Obama should be decrying this from the highest rafters but he's an empty suit so he'll wait. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-18 11:21 |
| #10 But don't forget...it's the evil Bushitler who's violating our privacy!! |
| Posted by: charger 2008-09-18 11:10 |
| #9 If the leftoweenies are this pissed that she might have used her personal email for government business what would they do if she used her government email for personal business? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-09-18 10:23 |
| #8 I highly recommend to all parties involved to get your lawyer(s) on the job as quickly as possible. It's going to be a long one, so you'd better be setting up a 'defense fund' now to start to get the means to pay for the legal help now and during the appeals process. And for the privacy wonks, this will make you or break you as 'elites' - one set of rules for me and a separate set of rules for thee. Out go the principles. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-09-18 09:33 |
| #7 This was pulled of by an Anonynous from 4chans /b/. The password recovery answers were guessed. No hidden "state business" was found in the account. Nothing here to see here. This is why you don't use weak passwords. They are easy to "guess" The /b/tards were greatly disappointed as they are going down on Obama. I have a tip for them "Lurk Moar." |
| Posted by: Sockpuppet of Doom 2008-09-18 09:26 |
| #6 30 lawyers for two weeks and this is what they come up with? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-09-18 08:49 |
| #5 " to conduct state business" THis will be the attack point. ANd the thing is other than personal stuff, there was no state business conducted. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-09-18 08:45 |
| #4 Goodpoint... Wireless in a hotel and somebody with a sniffer. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-09-18 08:39 |
| #3 I would say that guessing her password is quite likely. Another possibility is she used the yahoo account on a machine that she used to access the account was hacked. |
| Posted by: BernardZ 2008-09-18 08:36 |
| #2 Hackers Show Palin Used PERSONAL e-mail for Gov't Business! Hmm... "Story Shows Obama Operatives Stole Email!" Smells like Watergate. Let's get the hearings going. |
| Posted by: Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2008-09-18 08:35 |
| #1 so there are two options: 1) (unlikely) they guessed her password 2) they work for YAHOO. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-09-18 08:25 |