What we know so far on Email-Gate

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[WaveMan]

Here's a great summary of the facts so far around "Email-Gate":

[duckman]

Megan Kelly talking about it now.

[tsmith130]

Or trying to...Bill won’t shut up.

[Wiseghy]

Hopes this includes the post from the spouse of Alaska state government manager:

He stated that state employees are strongly encouraged to open outside web-hosted email accounts for personal matters.
Clearly, the messages in the account were personal, and not an attempt to circumvent disclosure laws, as ABC stated today.

[mabelkitty]

Whether she has an account or not is irrelevant. There are proper procedures for complaints, and authorizing a “fishing expedition” and illegal hacking is not part of it.

It usually involves a written letter or filling out a form with said complaint.

The real story is: Obama campaign activist illegally hacked VP candidate’s email system.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Nixon resiged because of a break in.How does a cyber break in differ somehow?

[Thane_Banquo]

Nixon resiged because of a break in.How does a cyber break in differ somehow?

This time the perpetrator is a Democrat, and the law doesn't apply to Democrats.

[Texas Eagle]

Yo, RATS, make up your mind.

First you criticize John McCain because he DOESN'T use e-mail and then you bash Sarah Palin because she DOES.

There's just no pleasing you Communist Organizers.

[jaz.357]

Megan Kelly...

...NOT GUILTY!

[mnehring]

I have mentioned this several times but I think this part is important.
Very recently an anonymous poster on /b/ claimed to have hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account.
IMHO, this was an attempt to scapegoat the /b/ (4Chan) hackers. The admission had no signs of anon, way to coherent, none of the jargon. It was a newf//g. The 4Chaners called them out immediately as a newf//g (what we would call a troll.)
Someone went out of their way to try to frame these guys as being part. It didn't fit their style. See what they do with Project Chanology w/ the Scientology and Paultards.. this hack was out of their scope. Too simple, no creativeness.

IMHO, there is something big behind this..

[bolobaby]

She is SO not guilty. So, so, so, so not guilty.

[Shqipo]

...NOT GUILTY!? How about “I Surrender!” LOL

[6SJ7]

Someone went out of their way to try to frame these guys as being part. It didn't fit their style. See what they do with Project Chanology w/ the Scientology and Paultards.. this hack was out of their scope. Too simple, no creativeness.

Interesting point. Answering questions posed by a password recovery function is too mundane to even be considered a hack.

[mnehring]

Anon also aren’t data miners, they see hacking as performance art. They deface sites, not post information from sites. I hate to defend hackers, but this isn’t 4Chan’s methods. This is way beneath them.

[Steely Tom]

"Soft fuzzy sweaters, too magical to touch"

[Chode]

sounds like a song i just heard on the radio...

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

I met and talked to Megyn twice at the RNC. She’s even better looking in person...

[mabelkitty]

I think you are right. That explains why “white hat” immediately changed the email account a second time and bragged about it online.

One of the first accounts I read about this linked 4Chan/Anonymous/Scientology. It was so whacked I didn’t come back to the story until it was sorted out this afternoon.

[Randy Larsen]

...AND no wedding ring!

OMG!

[WaveMan]

drool...

I’d hit that like a pack of rabid hounds on a fresh kill! :P