Comments on: Sarah Palin Yahoo account hacked

By: Peggy McGilligan

Peggy McGilligan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:12:18 +0000

The attack on Governor Palinâs privacy is inexcusable. In a hastily worded statement the Associated Press informed the Secret Service, âNo way dude, are we givinâ up them emails. Ask anybody; she got hacked fair & square. Like get your own story man, this oneâs ours.â Sometimes itâs hard to know who your friends are in the digital age.

Mr. Cell phone is not your friend: whenever oneâs cell phone is switched on, just turned on, even if it's not a GPS enabled device, it emits a signal that anyone who obtains your SIM card number may track with an array of inexpensive software. GOOGLE GPS tracking devices. The phoneâs speaker can also be remotely activated for use as a listening device. Itâs often easier and cheaper to attach a GPS device to a vehicle, in which case Mr. Automobile is no longer your friend. Cell phones, GPS devices, and Email all lend the good, the bad & the ugly a level of unprecedented sophistication. Suggest: remove cell phone battery when not in use: â¨http://theseedsof9-11.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:26:30 +0000

A guess is that as a result of a a simple no brainer (sarahpalin?), easy to guess password was used.
Palin, being in politics, should have consulted with her Internet savy politician colleagues, the creator of the Blackberry, McCain or the creator of the internet, Gore.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:16:19 +0000

The fact that Sarah Palin was using a Yahoo! account is almost neglectable in light of the fact that Anonymous members were illegally cracking the email account and deliberately spread private and government information on the internet, on top of all endangering the safety of Palin’s family. No “public interest” exists for this, and their doing was just plain illegal. Anonymous is known for illegal and harassing actions for a long time.

Article:
http://www.nolanchart.com/article4803.html

Fox11 News on Anonymous:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

Anonymous response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFjU8bZR19A

Another Fox11 report:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYH-5ke_bOU

Anonymous documentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbwNyKXux70
http://www.anonymous-exposed.org

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:07:41 +0000

I’ve been following the story since the beginning. Originally it was reported that Anonymous (the group responsible for harrassing Scientology recently) had discovered and hacked into Palin’s hidden email account.
http://gawker.com/5051193/sarah-palins-personal-email-account-hacked

Then the reports said “a user on the Web site WikiLeaks” was responsible:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/17/mccain-camp-seeks-investigation-over-reported-e-mail-hack/

By the time it got onto TV this morning, people were saying it was “hackers”.

How long before the label is changed to “terrorists”?

By: Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:18:57 +0000

Gina Says:
September 18th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

Throughout the entire primaries and the general election, the Presidential campaigns have played dirty politics. In addition to the never ending vitriol of the bloggers on the internet, nearly every time I have posted a supportive blog for Hillary Clinton â¦ and, then for McCain/Palin â¦ my computerâs mailbox has been inundated with hundreds of pieces of email spam. Another example of under handed behavior by campaign henchmen, is that they have been organized to approach retirement homes, as volunteer community speakers â¦ only to visit multiple times spewing lop sided propaganda to elderly people, to get their votes in November. And, now we can see unprincipled politicians and bias media hacks using smear tactics â¦ telling people â if you donât vote for our candidate, you must be an idiotâ. Usually, when Americans uncover such despicable tactics, they can count on the mainstream media to expose it to the public â¦ however, in this case, most of the mainstream media is in the toliet â¦ so, they either look the other way, or they make phony biased excuses to mischaracterize, and cover up whatâs really happening.

There Gina, fixed that for ya…

Also, “…I have posted a supportive blog for Hillary Clinton â¦ and, then for McCain/Palin â¦”

Sexist much?

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:48:01 +0000

Throughout the entire primaries and the general election, the Obama campaign has played dirty politics. In addition to the never ending vitriol of the Obama bloggers on the internet, nearly every time I have posted a supportive blog for Hillary Clinton … and, then for McCain/Palin … my computer’s mailbox has been inundated with hundreds of pieces of email spam. Another example of under handed behavior by Obama’s henchmen, is that they have been organized to approach retirement homes, as volunteer community speakers … only to visit multiple times spewing lop sided pro-Obama, and negative McCain propaganda to elderly people, to get their votes in November. And, now we can see unprincipled politicians and bias media hacks using the race card … telling people ” if you don’t vote for Obama, you must be a racist”. Usually, when Americans uncover such despicable tactics, they can count on the mainstream media to expose it to the public … however, in this case, most of the mainstream media is in the tank for Obama … so, they either look the other way, or they make phony biased excuses to mischaracterize, and cover up what’s really happening.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:41:05 +0000

This political and corporate pigs are breaking the law in violation of the US constitution by spying on us without due process and justified cause our warant, well it is fair them that someone spy on them in retaliation.

If they want to play hard ball with this is what they got.

They stop spying on us, we will stop spying on them. Period.

Since they have thinks to hide and we don’t they are certain to lose at this game evry time.

By: Liam Jewell

Liam Jewell — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:29:21 +0000

Unfortunately, the truth is that they do have laws against this for both U.S. and for the State of Alaska. I touch on the issue on my blog, specifically this post: http://www.liamjewell.com/wordpress/?p=139

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:56:10 +0000

why is it that the us government doesn’t have a policy on using Hotmail, Yahoo and other online email sites?
my office has a policy that no emails can be sent to or from these email providers to protect privacy and confidentiality.