Posted on 09/17/2008 11:15:26 AM PDT by Domandred
Mod note: Do no post any screenshots of Governor Palin's Yahoo account on Free Republic.
Thank you.
On the heels of media reports that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was using a private Yahoo e-mail account (gov.palin@yahoo.com) to conduct Alaska state business, hackers have broken into the account and posted evidence of the hijack on Wikileaks.
An activist group calling itself ‘anonymous’ claimed responsibility for the compromise and released screenshots, photographs and the e-mail addresses of several people close to Palin, including her husband Todd and assistant Ivy Frye.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.zdnet.com ...
If you notice the information posted at the Wikilieaks site, they generally provide a public service most of the time.
They are an anonymous site for leaked government documents from around the world that may serve a good purpose to those who wish to keep liberty personal. Especially if your government happens to be corrupt or fascist.
It was lying broken open beside him on the sofa with two shells in the receiver. He was just sitting there minding his own business reading the paper in his nightshirt when I screamed. Took him just a couple seconds to snatch up the shotgun, run out the living room door and around the corner where he intercepted Mr. Burglar just outside my window.
As Colonel Cooper (also the father of the term 'goblin') said in a slightly different context, a hit with a .22 is better than a loud miss with a .44 Mag . . . .
Mr. Burglar is just lucky that dad wasn't cleaning his .348 Winchester, we would have been attending a coroner's inquest (once they reassembled the burglar sufficiently to id him).
So lets count the ways Obama and his minions have shown us how they will deal with dissent.
The ABC reporter arrested for trying to cover Obama’s big money backers.
Trying to withhold the Annenburg files. They also have the memo deploying the “minions” to shout down Stanley Kurtz, even before they knew what he would say.
Allowing the mobs to attack Republican delegates at the convention.
Demanding not once but twice that Justice prosecute the ad discussing Obama’s connections with Ayres.
A steady stream of disinformation about his opponents.
And tapping Palin’s communications.
Can anyone doubt what Obama will do once he has his people in charge of IRS and Justice? The FCC?
I have. A lot. It's not that hard especially if you have physical access to the mail server. I've hacked the account of a deceased person so that the survivors could get to the deceased's email. (I was the admin at an ISP. It was legal.)
Your arguments are simply that she should have used a better lock and alarm company.
My argument is that too many people, the governor (and apparently you) have a false sense of security about third-party email systems. They aren't secure. They've never been secure.
Any email stored on a server is accessible by the people that have access to that server. End of story.
Even if it's encrypted it can still be deleted. That's called a Denial of Service attack.
So, yes, she's just like 90% of the Internet using public that assume that things are just peachy. Too many people trust the big webmail providers. They haven't earned that trust. In fact, they've shown many times that they aren't worthy of trust.
If you can't run your own server, use a server that someone you trust owns. That might be a friend, or a neighbor or a local ISP. They tend to be a little more careful since people can show up with pitchforks if they screw up.
The big providers count on the fact that most people don't understand security. So if your account gets hacked, so what? What are you going to do, stop using them? They have millions of other users. They don't care.
I suspect if there was anything of interest it would have been released already. Releasing something weeks later will just be dismissed as an Internet hoax.
This is interesting:
http://gawker.com/photogallery/palinyahooemail/1003648516
It comes from here: http://gawker.com/5051193/sarah-palins-personal-emails
Looks like they were trying to get all they could but a “white knight” stopped them.
Posting the “bad password” was genius as well. He/she knew it would quickly lock up the account.
Those are funny! LOL @ HateYT.
Underestimating the amount of sleaze she would face on the Internet?
The Internet doesn't care where you are. On the Internet, you are just as close to the NSA, Red Square, Watts or Berkeley as you are to FreeRepublic or Yahoo!.
People get their accounts hijacked all the time, even people who are not governors. If you haven't been mugged on the Internet, you just haven't been on it long enough.
This can’t be a legitimate government email. There’s no way that Alaska or any other state would Yahoo in this fashion. It has to be bogus.
Great post at Malkin.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/17/sarah-palins-private-e-mail-hacked-family-photos-raided/
“Secure” is a relative term.
Is my house secure when I lock the screen door?
Everyone knows that Yahoo Mail is not secure and most companies including mine would fire an employee for using Yahoo Mail or G Mail for company communication.
And yes, breaking into Palin’s Yahoo account was a criminal act but I am not sure the crime was against Palin or the State of Alaska since neither owned the server that was compromised. Thus, the crime was against Yahoo and I doubt they will pursue criminal charges.
For the record, EVERYTHING I put in writing I do so with the assumption that the one person in the world who hates me and would hurt me any way they can will be able to get to it.
Everything.
I don’t care all that much about internet security.
Over 400 laptops are missing from the ATF.
Of course it is. But if something matters to you, you take steps to secure it.
Is my house secure when I lock the screen door?
That depends. Are you sitting in the living room with a shotgun? Do you have a big, mean dog?
If you don't care about what's in your email, then it doesn't matter if you use Yahoo! or Google or MSN. I have accounts on several of them that I use for throwaway stuff.
Business stuff and personal communications with friends goes to my mail server. Is is secure? Well, that goes back to your point. What is secure?
It's locked up in my house. When I'm not there, it's got dogs and alarms. It is very unlikely that someone could get in, it is nigh impossible that someone could get in, break into my mail server and get out without me knowing about it.
That kind of thing happens all the time with Yahoo!.
So, is my email secure. Opinions vary, but I can state with certainty that it's more secure than Yahoo!.
I guess people know now how visible just about anything they do is this day, but not so much back then.
That is a great post at Malkin. Her article is claiming that Amy McCorkell confirmed sending one of the emails on the screen-shot.
Just had to say it: LIBERAL FASCISM
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