Posted on 09/18/2008 1:30:33 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
That boy is TOAST!
What I don’t understand about how he did this is: When setting a new password, the email service usually sends you an email (to that addy) notifying you that your password has been re-set. It asks if you did this. At least that is what I have always experienced. Also, when you sign up for a Yahoo email account, you are asked for an alternate email address also. And the same question is sent to that alternate email address. Didn’t Sarah see that question in her email before the person was able to continue? I thought no one could get into the email until you confirmed that you had re-set it. Perhaps I am wrong. Obviously I am wrong, LOL...but it still confuses me.
I listen to NPR but only for the international news. I believe however I noted PBS.
True, I think of them as peas in a pod, under the rubric of public broadcasting.
The challenge in this case is that Yahoo is the supplier of the email account which is to have its password changed. It does no good to send an email confirmation to an email address if that email address itself can then be accessed by the changed password.
The personal questions are an attempt to have a non-email dependent way to change the email password. I have several passworded web accounts that do just as you say; that is, they attempt to confirm my identity using personal information I have already supplied and then send an email with a code used to enable the new password.
But If I have to change my email password, I must be able to login first using the existing password. The only alternative to that is to call my internet service provider, identify myself satisfactorily, and then request that they reset my password.
Yahoo's system is designed to permit them to supply perhaps hundreds of thousands of email accounts without requiring human intervention to update passwords when a customer forgets theirs. It's a very much less secure way to get more done, but at the expense of customers like Palin who get hacked.
Or a “target”.
Common sense should have told him he was painting a big bull’s eye on his forehead...
Also appears there are early indications the “hacker” is the probably the son of a Tennessee (D) House member.Not certain if that is Fed or State House, and reports are not quite substantial enough for me to name names, although they are provided elsewhere.
My post of course is the meme from watergate directed towards Nixon. The accusation, the question is so serious,regardless of evidence, by modern press theory it must be asked and investigated.
You are quoting correctly what happens when you forget your password.
The hacker used what happens when you forget your username AND password. You are first asked the three security questions. When all three are answered correctly, and you get limited tries to do this in a period of time. You are given your ID and prompted to reset your password.
I just did it for my own account. It is that simple. You never have to enter the previous password. That of course is because it is assumed you forgot it anyhow.
I think this whole thing went down over a 3 hour period early in the morning. So by the time anyone was awake to detect. It was over.
— lates
CORRECTION:
This is the scenario when you know your ID but lost password.
Then answer I can not access my primary email.
Answer security question correctly
You can now reset your password.
Done. you now have access.
Yes both the account and the primary account get the confirmation email. But you are already logged in. Believe it or not the yahoo account can be made the primary.
But the confirmation email had no impact, as I stated above, it was all over by 4AM.
— sorry for the first error.
— I have now reset my password twice... :)
His father is a Democrat politician. This hits home.
The culture of corruption. The party of Democrat thugs. The kind who slash GOP van tires on election day.
But the media was more concerned with who was behind the Obama “smear” email.
Last week the Left was also bragging about having Sarah Palin’s social security number. To do so would also be criminal. The partisan media won’t investigate those claims (even though 4 digits were released).
Obama’s campaign, for all of the people praising it is one of the worst run I have witnessed in my short life. Knock on wood, I see a land slide in the making.
Case in point. You have all of this news breaking, and on the same day you have O’Biden out there giving a stump speach that incites people to stand up and argue, to get in people’s faces. They are no longer tacitly encouraging this madness. This stuff doesn’t win elections and the Clinton machine is not delivering this year. And we have seen what the JFK’s can do with John Kerry. (who served in Vietnamn) With Palin on this ticket... with Nader out there in a few states. O’Biden is going to hit hard.
Get ready for Clinton V. Palin in 2012.
— lates
— jrawk
I heard that last night. Wow.
susie
Exactly. I consider it valuable opposition research, and it's nice with no commercials and interesting musical breaks between segments. Rush at lunch and NPR on the drive home gives me a pretty good picture of what's going on.
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