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Scandal Puts Focus On Role of Bloggers (WaPo on FR, NCPAC and MD4Bush)
Washington Post ^
| 02/11/05
| David Snyder and Matthew Mosk
Posted on 02/10/2005 10:41:44 PM PST by conservative in nyc
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Any techies here want to explain the various methods that these emails could have been intercepted? (This is a "Buckhead" opportunity). It wouldn't necessarily take a hacker to do it.
Here is a plausible scenario: Perhaps the original MD4Bush was not the same MD4Bush from a few days ago - but the second MD4Bush used the same computer, surfed to FreeRepublic, found that the original MD4Bush account was already logged on and contained his old email.
It could be that simple - but it would be a violation of the ECPA because MD4Bush #2 was not a party to the original communication.
There are other questions (perhaps already answered?) - how did MD4Bush obtain NCPAC's identity?
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posted on
02/11/2005 3:19:24 AM PST
by
HAL9000
To: MEG33
I have a few ideas. But, gosh, I'm too close to
those sources to reveal any more at the moment. [irony]
To: leprechaun9
And the WaPo has since changed the article's headline to "Uproar Brings Focus on Role Of Bloggers".
To: HAL9000
What about the cookie trail of Freepers surfing back and forth between newspaper websites and FR. The WP makes you log on...don't they?
To: HAL9000
NCPAC dropped sufficient hints in this forum that anyone who really wanted to could have figured out his identity. He made some posts identifying him as close to Governor Ehrlich, and his screen name would allow any reporter with half a brain to narrow down the list of who he was.
Loose lips sink ships.
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Apparently the Washington Post confirmed his identity by calling and asking, but if I recall correctly, the article did not explain how the preliminary identification was made. Did NCPAC provide his name in one of the emails, or was it determined by technical means?
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posted on
02/11/2005 3:38:39 AM PST
by
HAL9000
To: MEG33
Here's a little quote from
Maryland State Law on that very topic:
"(1) A person may not intentionally, willfully, and without authorization access, attempt to access, cause to be accessed, or exceed the person's authorized access to all or part of a computer network, computer control language, computer, computer software, computer system, computer services, or computer database."
[An. Code 1957, art. 27, § 146; 2002, ch. 26, § 2.]
(2) "Access" means to instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve or intercept data from, or otherwise use the resources of a computer program, computer system, or computer network.
The lawyers would have to confirm, but I think you can't be doing this in some other state to a computer system used in Maryland, even if the computer isn't in MD.
To: HAL9000
That's the $64,000 question.
Someone needs to do an article on what has been going on with liberal journalists and news organizations going after conservative bloggers and websites. Like to see those emails chatting that up.
To: Howlin; doug from upland; MEG33; bjcintennessee; Lancey Howard; jennyjenny; Prime Choice; ...
PING to clandestine activity....
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posted on
02/11/2005 4:01:26 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and is the north end of a south bound mule.)
To: alnick
It wouldn't be a bad idea to be cautious with screen names you are familiar with, at least to some extent. How difficult would it be for the enterprising "journalist" to spend a year or two visiting FR occasionally and posting, developing relationships?Very true.
I've been thinking this sort of thing must be happening for years.
I go back to before Donald Segretti and his dirty tricks and mischief. To be honest, this kind of thing must be happening.
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posted on
02/11/2005 4:04:49 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and is the north end of a south bound mule.)
To: leprechaun9
George Step-on-the-populace ---
:-)
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posted on
02/11/2005 4:06:32 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and is the north end of a south bound mule.)
To: beyond the sea
My first post is 19 ..and I haven't left..What is sleep, anyhow?
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posted on
02/11/2005 4:07:04 AM PST
by
MEG33
(GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
To: beyond the sea; MEG33
They will be linking conservative bloggers with the Klan and neo-Nazis before this is over. More spin.
Heck, they are replaying the Hillary Playbook - Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. Some things never change.
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Someone needs to do an article on what has been going on with liberal journalists and news organizations going after conservative bloggers and websites. Like to see those emails chatting that up.You could probably find all of that information in Sidney Blumenthal's emails.
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posted on
02/11/2005 4:11:26 AM PST
by
kcvl
To: SkyPilot; MeekOneGOP; MEG33
Sometimes that means information the quote-unquote mainstream media are keeping you from........ JuannitaRIGHT-on, SkyPilot.
How about another one? The incredible Vince Foster who got to Fort Marcy Park a couple hours before his car?
Patrick Knowlton....
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posted on
02/11/2005 4:12:55 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and is the north end of a south bound mule.)
To: kcvl
Yep. The articles even sound like liberal talking points. "See, Kerry lost because of the conservative bloggers. We have to go after them." This is their magic bullet theory tendency at it again. Blame everyone but themselves.
To: chronic_loser
Look I LOVE FR, but we definitely have some unreasoning wingnuts here. You rang?
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posted on
02/11/2005 4:14:38 AM PST
by
Mike Bates
(Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
To: kcvl
And Ehrlich beat a Kennedy. I guess Bob Shrum is looking for work again. Maybe he found it.
To: Kay
Intriguing stuff. Seems that the liberal papers are taking their marching orders from the DUmmies over at DU. Doesn't surprise me one bit.
I think FR is fabulous, as other other forums. And sometimes, good things happen like Buckhead. But for any credible journalist to 'trust' a post from a public forum is just bad journalism, period. Seems the need to get the scoop means throwing all credibility out the window. It's not the credibility of FR either. It's the jackasses at these newspapers who fall into these rumor traps.
To: RabidBartender
"when a "freeper" -- the group's moniker for its bloggers"
Bloggers? Now I have to change the monogram on my PJ's.
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posted on
02/11/2005 4:28:25 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(60 votes and the world changes.)
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