Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts • Hacker News Board

Re: Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 6:43 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #18

thomasmallen wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't work...

It does here.... http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/wikileaks.org

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Re: Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts

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Post by rokhayakebe » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 6:58 PM UTC

Here are the links

http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/wp-content/uploads/2008/...

Re: Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts

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Post by vaksel » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 7:00 PM UTC

here is someone's blog post with a few more pictures, and her contacts list.

http://gawker.com/5051193/sarah-palins-personal-email-accoun...

Re: Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts

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Post by comatose_kid » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 7:26 PM UTC

I'm no fan of Palin, but I think it's pretty low of Gawker to gain page views by posting the contents of her personal emails, as well as the personal photos. Apparently privacy rights don't matter anymore.

Re: Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts

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Post by tptacek » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 7:53 PM UTC

Michael Scherer at Time just wrote that his sources confirmed that this isn't a hoax. Epic fuckup.

Re: Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts

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Post by steelhive » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 7:59 PM UTC

vaksel wrote: post #2

Thats why you need better security settings if you are in public office, considering all the secret questions one might ask about you to retrieve your password can be found on your wiki page

Yeah. You think she'd have more security experience being so near Russia. :-)

Re: Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts

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Post by vaksel » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 8:06 PM UTC

steelhive wrote: post #26

vaksel wrote: post #2

Thats why you need better security settings if you are in public office, considering all the secret questions one might ask about you to retrieve your password can be found on your wiki page

Yeah. You think she'd have more security experience being so near Russia. :-)

well by that logic she is a security expert because she filled out a "Lost Password" questionnaire that yahoo does.

Re: Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts

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Post by webwright » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 8:45 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #20

webwright wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking at the screenshots, there is no evidence of government business there. She's bitching a bit about Dan Fagan (a repub. commentator in AK) in the one email, but everything looks pretty personal. I have a work and personal account... 99% of the time I manage to keep my personal account personal-- occasionally I don't. I'd be stunned if there weren't occasional transgressions on this front in any governor's offic…

I'm not going to repost stuff from Wikilinks here, but it looks like you're not correct: there's a transcript of the screenshots that includes things like, "CONFIDENTIAL ETHICS INVESTIGATION" and "REQUEST FOR DOCUMENTS". In addition to being a fuckup of spectacular proportions, it also corroborates an earlier news report of leaked emails that included specific instructions not to send sensitive government mails to Pa…

Ah, I'd just looked at the screenshots, not the text "log". Interesting that they'd screenshot all of the subjects that are totally personal/innocuous but the text log has all of the potentially damning subjects... Hrm. Why wouldn't you just scroll down and take a few screenies to prove the evil?

I've worked on the technology side of a few candidates and politicians-- they are almost without fail moronic about technology. I can imagine accidental sends to Palin's personal account. For all we know, the content of those emails are "You dumbass. How many times do I have to tell you that stuff like this should go to my work account?!", right?

I agree that the trend is interesting, tho.

Re: Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts

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Post by tptacek » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 9:06 PM UTC

webwright wrote: post #28

tptacek wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not going to repost stuff from Wikilinks here, but it looks like you're not correct: there's a transcript of the screenshots that includes things like, "CONFIDENTIAL ETHICS INVESTIGATION" and "REQUEST FOR DOCUMENTS". In addition to being a fuckup of spectacular proportions, it also corroborates an earlier news report of leaked emails that included specific instructions not to send sensitive government mails to Pa…

Ah, I'd just looked at the screenshots, not the text "log". Interesting that they'd screenshot all of the subjects that are totally personal/innocuous but the text log has all of the potentially damning subjects... Hrm. Why wouldn't you just scroll down and take a few screenies to prove the evil? I've worked on the technology side of a few candidates and politicians-- they are almost without fail moronic about techno…

(a) Because the people who pulled off the attack are stupid.

(b) Because the people who pulled off the attack somehow lost access after getting the account but before archiving all the mail, and so made up the good stuff.

(c) Because the people who pulled off the attack are very smart, and are going to slow-drip this out to the media over the next month.

I know where my bet's at now.

Re: Anonymous hacks one of Gov. Sarah Palin's yahoo email accounts

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 9:15 PM UTC

comatose_kid wrote: post #24

I'm no fan of Palin, but I think it's pretty low of Gawker to gain page views by posting the contents of her personal emails, as well as the personal photos. Apparently privacy rights don't matter anymore.

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