The story behind the Palin e-mail hacking (Uncovered: who was responsible-graphic language warning)

michellemalkin.com ^ | September 17, 2008 | Michelle Malkin

[mnehring]

The email address of the hacker is another confusing issue. 4Chan hackers don’t post their own, they use Anonymous (it is kind of a joke) or a nicknake, but never an email address. If you search Google for Rubico10, you find the name on a lot of gaming boards, all with a very different writing style as the ‘confession’ from 4Chan I posted earlier...

Something really stinks about this.. I think someone is using 4Chan as a scapegoat or to do the hack.. this just doesn’t smell right at all..

[madison10]

You can bet this guy and everyone else already has an open file on them as I write this and will be arrested.

Thank God!! There have been times during this election cycle when I thought all was lost, as in, wrong was gong to trump right.

[Republican Red]

The hacker reset the password to “POPCORN”.

Kernell - popcorn

too cute

[Walkingfeather]

Here is a question for the attorney’s out there. Apparently AP is in possession of these emails. Knowing that they were retrieved illegally is AP also in legal trouble for possession of stolen mail?

[ecomcon]

Has he been in Texas?

[PapaBear3625]

McCain knows how to email. He just doesn’t do it. It’s crazy to use email to do the job of a telephone call when everything you email is archived and subject to discovery in a court of law. Talkin on the phone. Much, much better!

"Never write when you can speak, never speak when you can wink, and never wink when you can nod" -- increasingly, words to live by when you have active enemies.

[kevkrom]

The DUmmies et al. are kinda wetting themselves over this. First they were giddy about this event -- now they are worried and think this is a Rovian trick designed to contine the storyline that Palin is being unfairly attacked.

As I have pointed out in the DUmmie FUnnies, DUmmies do not think, they merely react to stimuli based, with their reactions based on key "memes" developed over time. In this case, what we have are the following "memes" in play:

1. ALL Republicans are corrupt and anyone who bothers to look at anything they do will immediately see this.

   As seen by: a) someone hacks Palin's email; b) the DUmmies get in a tizzy waiting for the certain-to-be incriminating evidence to pour our; c) no such "evidence" is found. This leads to the next meme...

2. Any time things don't go the way we expect, it's the result of a conspiracy.

   Refusing to even consider that their previous assumptions must be wrong, they immediately switch to the next autonomous responses, in this case, two different conspiracy plans, incompatible with each other, yet still both believed: a) The account was deleted before the "juicy" stuff was found, and b) This was all a red herring planted by Rove to garner sympathy for Palin.

   Of course, the last part falls into another meme...

3. Rove is behind everything

[downwdims]

reps They were using /b/ to cover the tracks

[Tarpon]

I bet the kid is an Obama supporter ...

[Roberts]

bump

[CT]

You guys are the best. I have even bragged that Free Republic brought down another high-value target, just like Dan Rather and his ‘fake but accurate’ documentary. Good job, all around.

[proud2beconservativeinNJ]

Congratulations. Well done.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

[Judith Anne]

The email address of the hacker is another confusing issue. 4Chan hackers don’t post their own, they use Anonymous (it is kind of a joke) or a nicknake, but never an email address. If you search Google for Rubico10, you find the name on a lot of gaming boards, all with a very different writing style as the ‘confession’ from 4Chan I posted earlier...

Something really stinks about this.. I think someone is using 4Chan as a scapegoat or to do the hack.. this just doesn’t smell right at all..

I agree. If this Kernell kid is 15, then he cannot be prosecuted as an adult. Interesting if he's the cat's paw for a dem monkey, providing plausible deniability.

[penelopesire]

Freepers are pretty talented folks alright. I concur!!

It is amazing what can be accomplished, when folks that care deeply for this country and her constitution, work together.

[STFrancis]

The kids isn’t 15... that was his old profile from 2003 he is 20 now.

[Judith Anne]

Yes, thanks for the correction to my post. I heard that on Fox News this morning. I guess he can be prosecuted as an adult. Heh.