Hacker impersonated Palin, stole e-mail password

AP via Breitbart ^ | September 18, 2008 | Ted Bridis

[rightwingintelligentsia]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Details emerged Thursday behind the break-in of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account, including a first-hand account suggesting it was vulnerable because a hacker was able to impersonate her online to obtain her password.

[Slapshot68]

This hacker is liberalism personified. They have no life, no ideas, no identity of their own so they have to mimic, then steal, from others to be “validated.”

[MrB]

All collectivist ideology, as is evil itself,

are parasitic.

They cannot exist alone and must suck the life out of good ideologies.

[brytlea]

The break-in of Palin's private account is especially significant because Palin sometimes uses non-government e-mail to conduct state business. Previously disclosed e-mails indicate her administration embraced Yahoo accounts as an alternative to government e-mail, which could possibly be released to the public under Alaska's Open Records Act.

Is there any proof of this? If not, isn't it time for the public to punish news outlets who print unsubstantiated rumors as truth?

susie

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Hm. Criminal impersonation and identify theft.

[brytlea]

I hope he’s got his panties in a wad right about now. I hope they find him and prosecute to the fullest.
susie

[BGHater]

‘impersonate her online to obtain her password.’

Classic social engineering hack.

[PLD]

Friends,
>
>
> PBS has a short video on Sarah Palin on their website. Also
> included is a
> poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP?
>
>
>
> I logged on a few minutes ago and
> 34
> % percent had voted
> YES,
> 66
> % NO.
>
>
>
> Let’s turn this around..... You don’t have to give
> your name or
> email address in order to vote. It’s very simple.
>
>
> Here’s the link:
>
>
>
>
> http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html
>

[MozarkDawg]

What started as a prank was cut short because of panic over the possibility the FBI might investigate, the hacker wrote.

Might? Dork, the Secret Service WILL ... get ready for the knock on your door from the guys with the dark glasses and funny watches. You are in for a serious *talking to*, they don't care your party politics.

[edcoil]

If 34% of democrats believe she is, Obama is in trouble. Very few republicans and reasonable people listen to PBS.

[timestax]

I think the poll has been closed as the number has NOT changed in two days.

[Publius6961]

What genius wrote this story?

What difference does it make how the criminal hacked her email account?

Would it be admirable, or any less a crime if the crook had borrowed sophisticated equipment from Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible?

Sometimes I can't believe the idiocy...

[RetSignman]

Tina Fey?

[A_Former_Democrat]

You nailed it.

It’s a shame that the liberals have made a sham out of the political process.

And out of everything else as well.

[Dr. Sivana]

Very few republicans and reasonable people listen to PBS.

I listen to NPR frequently. I think I am reasonable.

However, I read it the same way that one might read Pravda. This morning, for instance, they did profiles of Biden and Palin. Biden's piece was all puffy, emphasizing his frequent references to (what he considers to be) his Catholic identity when campaigning in the upper midwest. When they got to Palin, the feature was mostly critical, and they had no problem finding women who were critical of Palin at the U of Mo--Kansas City. Fortunately, they were honest enough to inform the listener that critic #1 was African-American, and that critic #2 was a "Women's Studies" professor.

These features give me an idea as to where the left is going next.

[Continental Soldier]

This case will be an interesting test for the Secret Service. Can they catch the wrongdoers? Or will they be defeated by clever defiance and political correctness? If they succeed, the wrongdoers should go to prison,where they can enjoy their liberal inclinations. If they don’t succeed, we should all catch our breath for what is coming next!

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Loose lips sink ships.

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Hacker impersonated Palin, stole e-mail password, MozarkDawg wrote:
“What started as a prank was cut short because of panic over the possibility the FBI might investigate, the hacker wrote.

Might? Dork, the Secret Service WILL ... get ready for the knock on your door from the guys with the dark glasses and funny watches. You are in for a serious *talking to*, they don’t care your party politics.”

This is a case where politicians of both parties will close ranks to protect themselves. Neither Dems or Repubs want to risk having their e-mails hacked.

*talking to* code for getting royaly screwed. Whoever did this will be made an example of to.

[astyanax]

The F.B.I. is now involved.
Article has a good description of how he did it.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9115099&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8

[Neidermeyer]

because a hacker was able to impersonate her online to obtain her password
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I’d bet 10 to 1 that someone at Yahoo offered the password to the Obama campaign or that this kid knew someone working there.. the YHOO people are pretty much as liberal as the GOOG people.

[jrawk]

WHAT did Obama know, and WHEN did he know it?