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Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account hijacked, e-mails posted online
ZDNet ^ | 9/17/2008 | Ryan Naraine

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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: creeps; democraticslimebags; hacked; hackergate; leftys; leftyscumbags; mccainpalin; palin; palinattacks; palinping; tasteless; wikileaks; yahoo
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To: Red in Blue PA

This was not a smart thing to do as she is a governor and can send out the legal-beagles, and as a Presidential candidate the Secret Service responds to all assaults against such a person aggressively.


301 posted on 09/17/2008 8:56:23 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

I voted about 20 minutes before the poll closed. It took a while for my vote to register. At that time the poll results were: 1% harmless prank, 99% dirty trick.


302 posted on 09/17/2008 8:56:59 PM PDT by stayathomemom ( nowanemptynester)
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To: wpa_mikeb
I don't care for McCain, but this is sleazy.

Palin is a citizen first. She has a right to expect private phone calls and private email. This is disgusting. Will they raid her pantie drawer next? They subpoena her husband, mock her kids. Now this. This is getting filthy. The secret service better have the scum that did this in the news by tomorrow.

303 posted on 09/17/2008 8:59:58 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Philly Nomad

Philly Nomad = Mr. Astroturf


304 posted on 09/17/2008 9:03:30 PM PDT by Warlord
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To: dandelion

The company I used to work for had “company e-mail”, but the software was lousy. I ended up using Juno (which has easy to use “webmail” AND bulk “direct” download to HD.) So what I would do is use webmail to screen out junk, and then download the rest to HD with one click. No more than one “overnight” worth of e-mail was ever actually hanging out there on the web. That said, I also used Yahoo as a backup, as sometimes e-mail from overseas would go through intermediaries that were also carrying (or sending?) spam, and Juno would block them. I’d check Yahoo each day and if something necessary showed up there instead, I’d forward it to my Juno acct. Anything sensitive, I’d then delete off Yahoo. This was probably not the greatest setup, but it worked ok for me.

Now, as for hackers... It seems to me that these people, writers of viruses, etc., need to start receiving MUCH more severe sentences. If the sentences are severe enough, and publicized, this stuff would diminish, even if the relative likelyhood of getting caught is low. Maybe this particular example would be a good one (5 years in an Alaskan jail?)


305 posted on 09/17/2008 9:03:59 PM PDT by Paul R. (Ok, I am ready to meet the devil. What are the details?)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
This might have started as a "prank" but the hacker was clearly intent on politically destroying Sarah and thus helping 0bambi:

"I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family...I really wanted to get something incriminating which I was sure there would be, just like all of you anon out there that you think there was some missed opportunity of glory, well there WAS NOTHING, I read everything, every little blackberry confirmation… all the pictures, and there was nothing, and it finally set in, THIS internet was serious"

When the FBI finds this turd curled up in his closet they are going to find he is a grungy leftwing ObamaBot in bad need of a bath.

The possible ties to a Tennessee Rat politician wouldn't surprise me - remember the 2004 election shenanigans with slashed tires with the perps being workers from the DemocRat Party.

Found an interesting line from the story that is linked through Drudge:

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."

Why would the AP defy the SS on such a simple request? I know they are highly biased but aren't they a)opening up unnecessary scrutiny on themselves and b) giving this story legs (something I'm sure they don't want)?

306 posted on 09/17/2008 9:26:39 PM PDT by Nasher (BHO: His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: Himself!)
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To: Tarpon
If it is an inside job at Yahoo!, then Yahoo! management may be getting to have a nice, LONG talk with the FBI and Secret Service. And find out whoever leaked it was offered a bribe to leak it in the first place.
307 posted on 09/17/2008 9:33:40 PM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: Tarpon

Yahoo is a moonbat haven. I’m not surprised.


308 posted on 09/17/2008 9:36:36 PM PDT by rdl6989 (What isn't above Obama's pay grade?)
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To: ruschpa
Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C. 2701(a) and 2702 (a)

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 121 > § 2701 § 2701. Unlawful access to stored communications
How Current is This? (a) Offense.— Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section whoever—
(1) intentionally accesses without authorization a facility through which an electronic communication service is provided; or
(2) intentionally exceeds an authorization to access that facility;
and thereby obtains, alters, or prevents authorized access to a wire or electronic communication while it is in electronic storage in such system shall be punished as provided in subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Punishment.— The punishment for an offense under subsection (a) of this section is—
(1) if the offense is committed for purposes of commercial advantage, malicious destruction or damage, or private commercial gain, or in furtherance of any criminal or tortious act in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States or any State—
(A) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or both, in the case of a first offense under this subparagraph; and
(B) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both, for any subsequent offense under this subparagraph; and
(2) in any other case—
(A) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 1 year or both, in the case of a first offense under this paragraph; and
(B) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or both, in the case of an offense under this subparagraph that occurs after a conviction of another offense under this section.
(c) Exceptions.— Subsection (a) of this section does not apply with respect to conduct authorized—
(1) by the person or entity providing a wire or electronic communications service;
(2) by a user of that service with respect to a communication of or intended for that user; or
(3) in section 2703, 2704 or 2518 of this title.

309 posted on 09/17/2008 9:36:58 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: ilovekansasnow

Over at the DUmpster they think that magnificent bastard, Karl Rove, did it.


310 posted on 09/17/2008 9:40:55 PM PDT by Pinkbell (”This guy is a jerk, an arrogant jerk. A Jerk Messiah.” - Rush talking about Obama)
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To: All

Here is a 4chan.org timeline writeup of what happened during the Palin e-mail address hack. No incriminating or confidential info...just the order in which things went down.

http://pastebin.com/f652c44fb

If you aren’t familiar with 4chan then I’m afraid there isn’t enough text space in the whole internet to adequately explain what it’s all about.


311 posted on 09/17/2008 9:43:25 PM PDT by conservobot
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To: Islander7
"Gabriel Ramuglia might be a good place to start."

Just what I imagined, some pimply faced loser. Btw, nice shoes to be wearing to the prom.

Kind of strange that he's originally from Anchorage, Alaska.

312 posted on 09/17/2008 9:45:42 PM PDT by Nasher (BHO: His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: Himself!)
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To: Domandred

Associated with Wikipedia, the lying so-called enclyclopedia?


313 posted on 09/17/2008 9:57:15 PM PDT by Libertina (Sarah Palin for VP - not because she is a woman, but for the woman she is!)
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To: Nasher

I think I read that he is one of the good guys. Very good at finding out who is doing the hacking.

Someone will correct me if I’m wrong.


314 posted on 09/17/2008 9:58:17 PM PDT by Shelayne (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Ugh that is so creepy.


315 posted on 09/17/2008 9:59:00 PM PDT by modest proposal
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To: Red in Blue PA

Another 100,000 votes just transferred over. Keep those Obominations coming, left wing nutjobs! You’re pooping all over yourselves and your natures won’t let you stop.


316 posted on 09/17/2008 10:08:05 PM PDT by Dionysius
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To: Knitebane

“Not really. What happened here is that Governor Palin used an email service that has a long history of security problems. And using ANY third party email system leaves you open to having the people that run the place.”

I’m tired of you blaming the victim. How about blaming the freakin lawbreakers who BROKE THE LAW. Basically what you are saying is that any email account can be broken into, therefor she shouldn’t have used it.

WHY DO WE EVEN HAVE EMAIL, THEN? ANYBODIES EMAIL CAN BE BROKEN INTO!!!!

How about saving your scoldings and tsk-tsks for the LAW BREAKERS?

I hate hackers with a PASSION. The internet and email could revolutionize this country many magnituted more than it already has, but businesses and individuals avid making that leap because THEY CAN’T TAKE THE RISK WITH THE LAWBREAKERS OUT THERE WHO COULD SINK THEM.

Hackers should get the death penalty, and no, I am NOT kidding.


317 posted on 09/17/2008 10:13:29 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Libertina
May as well be, but no.

Don't get confused by the "wiki". "Wiki" is a type of web software in use for various things. Like at my work we use the wiki software for internal software and procedure documentation.

318 posted on 09/17/2008 10:14:58 PM PDT by Domandred (McWhathisname / Palin - 2008)
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To: Dionysius

No kidding. I can’t stand Obama but wishing someone would hack his email never entered my mind.

Too many left wing nutjobs.


319 posted on 09/17/2008 10:17:19 PM PDT by modest proposal
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320 posted on 09/17/2008 10:20:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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