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The story behind the Palin e-mail hacking (Uncovered: who was responsible-graphic language warning)
michellemalkin.com ^ | September 17, 2008 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 09/17/2008 5:06:57 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

This afternoon, I mentioned an infamous group of hackers whose Internet bulletin board was the gathering place for those who bragged about and publicized the Sarah Palin private e-mail hacking.

A tech-savvy reader who monitors the hackers’ site e-mailed me a detailed explanation of how it went down, who was responsible, and how someone with a conscience warned a friend of the Palin family of the crime (language warning):

(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; bchan; breakin; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; dncbrownshirts; doj; fbi; hackers; howtostealanelection; identitytheft; malkin; mccainpalin; palinemail; stalinisttactics; ussa; watergate2; yahoo
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1 posted on 09/17/2008 5:06:58 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

-————Gawker complained that Palin has since “deleted” the account, and suggested she was trying to “destroy evidence.”————

I took this quote from a different link. Can you believe the mentality of these idiots?


2 posted on 09/17/2008 5:14:31 PM PDT by Doug TX
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Three important things here...

1) The idea was that the sea of Anonymous /b/tards would download the emails, upload porn, and cause all manner of mischief.

The McCain Campaign better watch out for these cretins!

2) This afternoon, in a thread that was later deleted, an individual claiming to be the original poster gave his account of what happened. I’ve attached screencaps. Here’s the text. The original poster used the name “rubico.” The linked email address for the poster was rubico10@yahoo.com.

To an FBI or Secret Service folks who may read this, go get him!!!!!

3) 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

'nuff said!!!!!!!

3 posted on 09/17/2008 5:16:32 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Earlier it was just some prank to me, 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 business, yes I was behind a proxy, only one, if this s**t ever got to the FBI I was f****d, I panicked, i still wanted the stuff out there but I didn’t know how to rapids**t all that stuff, so I posted the pass on /b/, and then promptly deleted everything, and unplugged my internet and just sat there in a comatose state

L00s3r, u r pwn3d, enjoy ur time in jail!

4 posted on 09/17/2008 5:17:22 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

bttt


5 posted on 09/17/2008 5:17:58 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I haven't read the article yet, but I'm wondering if the password was the name of one of her children or if the password recovery feature of Yahoo! was exploited?

*reads article*

after the password recovery was reenabled, it took seriously 45 mins on wikipedia and google to find the info, Birthday? 15 seconds on wikipedia, zip code? well she had always been from wasilla, and it only has 2 zip codes (thanks online postal service!)

the second was somewhat harder, the question was “where did you meet your spouse?” did some research, and apparently she had eloped with mister palin after college, if youll look on some of the screenshits that I took and other fellow anon have so graciously put on photobucket you will see the google search for “palin eloped” or some such in one of the tabs.

I found out later though more research that they met at high school, so I did variations of that, high, high school, eventually hit on “Wasilla high” I promptly changed the password to popcorn and took a cold shower…

Password recovery exploited. Not much of a "hack". Yawn.

6 posted on 09/17/2008 5:18:49 PM PDT by CE2949BB (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: ConservativeMan55; SkyDancer

Ping over here


7 posted on 09/17/2008 5:18:56 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

??????

Given the thuggery coming out of the Obama Campaign, I am not buying this ‘explanation’ just yet. I hope others don’t as well.


8 posted on 09/17/2008 5:19:00 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
interesting story.... It is also interesting to watch this issue grow on the FOXNews channel

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.

9 posted on 09/17/2008 5:19:40 PM PDT by rface
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Too bad for them that Gov. Palin is squeaky clean. You just know if there was some troopergate stuff or anything bashing hillary then it would be reprinted allover the place and we would be TOTALLY screwed.


10 posted on 09/17/2008 5:19:49 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

How do I do that?

>ping< ????


11 posted on 09/17/2008 5:19:53 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
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To: Alouette

From basement to graybar hotel in one stupid lesson.


12 posted on 09/17/2008 5:20:28 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

the dem loons dig even deeper.

went on to the huff

this is an example of their garbage.

“”Bristol Stared Straight Ahead And Levi Had The Glazed Look Of A Trapped Feral Animal”:

an article that the author wrote about their body language at an event and how if he were levi’s parents, he’d ask for 500,000 to be quiet until election day.

slimes, all of them


13 posted on 09/17/2008 5:21:56 PM PDT by machogirl
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Hack this Demonrats:

http://www.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/uncle_middle.jpg


14 posted on 09/17/2008 5:22:11 PM PDT by Nick Thimmesch
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To: gop4lyf

They had the outrageous scandal of her tanning bed, don’t forget that.


15 posted on 09/17/2008 5:22:13 PM PDT by driftdiver (No More Obama - The corruption has not changed despite all our hopes.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Normally the 4Channers are funny. They are the ones behind project Chanology that mocks Scientology and Ron Paul with the V masks (Epic Fail Guy)..the latter group actually was tricked into taking on that as an icon, they laugh about it to this day.. most of their hacking they consider ‘performance art’.. this seems a little cruel for them. I have a feeling they are being used, either as a scapegoat or they where manipulated to do this.. Just a gut feeling but there is a much bigger fish behind this. This just doesn't fit 4Chan’s modus.
16 posted on 09/17/2008 5:22:55 PM PDT by mnehring (Maverick/Barracuda 2008)
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To: gop4lyf

The funny part of this whole thing is the emails they ‘exposed’ show Palin is just as sincere in private as she is to the cameras- same values, same areas of important. It shows she is genuine.


17 posted on 09/17/2008 5:24:06 PM PDT by mnehring (Maverick/Barracuda 2008)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If he was really only behind one proxy, then I’d be surprised if he isn’t already in custody. He certainly can look forward to waking up to the FBI at the door if he’s not.


18 posted on 09/17/2008 5:24:06 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (Palin 2008 (oh yeah, and McCain too))
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To: CE2949BB

Yep, come to think about it, it wasn’t that hard at all, considering how much of Governor Palin’s personal info the MSM has thrown out over the past two weeks.


19 posted on 09/17/2008 5:25:18 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: CE2949BB
I haven't read the article yet, but I'm wondering if the password was the name of one of her children or if the password recovery feature of Yahoo! was exploited?

Why do so many password-recovery doodads require people to use stupid questions? There are many things that I will remember for a lifetime, but few people are apt to know but me; indeed, some things nobody will know but me.

For example, 'What was the name of the singer you saw at Ontario Place during childhood'. I saw exactly one concert there, and I remember some of the songs from the concert as well as the identity of the lead singer. I suppose a stranger who was really desperate might conceivably be able to figure out when my parents and I were in Canada, and then cross-check that with a schedule of Ontario Place concerts, but I doubt that would be a realistic attack. Of course, my parents and siblings might remember some of that information, and perhaps even the concert itself, but strangers wouldn't have a chance.

BTW, one of my pet peeves is web sites that have various requirements for passwords but don't state those requirements at the login page. I can't see that putting such information on the login screen would compromise the security of any site that allows free public accounts.

20 posted on 09/17/2008 7:51:06 PM PDT by supercat
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