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Posted on 09/18/2008 7:04:25 AM PDT by jrooney
I don’t want to prejudge anything, but I think that this needs some clarification. The person who hacked into Gov Palin’s email used a proxy server, meaning that the registered IP address from which the account was accessed was that of the proxy, not the perps personal IP.
The Chicago address is that of the proxy servers, not necessarily the hacker(s). The owner of the proxy servers in Chicago has already come forward and said that he could help LE find the hacker, but he has not yet been asked to do so.
Given the above, I think it’s premature to link the hacker to Obama using Chicago as a common denominator.
Right Pundit needs to get its facts straight. Richard Nixon won re-election to the Presidency in 1972. He resigned in August of 1974, BEFORE he could be impeached. He did the honorable thing. Even though, by all accounts, he didn't ORDER the break-in at the Watergate Dem offices, he worked to cover them up, thinking someone had done it on his behalf.
I saw a TV show on A&E a few years ago, hosted by Bill Curtis, which claims that an investigation into the incident showed that the break-in was actually ordered by John Dean. it was done to retrieve a 'little black book' of the names of escorts that the Dems used, while in DC. He wanted it because the woman he was dating, and later married, was named in that book. So, if that's true, then John Dean, who has been lauded by the liberals for speaking out against Nixon and Watergate, and for later dumping on conservative Republicans every chance he gets, was actually the one who ordered the break ins.
Ironical, ain't it?
Watergate timeline:
"1964: U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War officially begins.
Daniel Ellsberg begins work at The Pentagon.
Ellsberg acquires the Pentagon Papers.
Ellsberg gives copies to Neil Sheehan.
June 13, 1971: The New York Times begins to publish them.
The Washington Post soon follows. Richard Nixon reacts with outrage."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_timeline
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Now here's something I'm sure the liberal 'historians' would just LOVE to know... (so that they can update their documentaries on Watergate and Vietnam. Hah!)
Daniel Ellsberg today, 2008:
Ellsberg is an endorser of the "World Can't Wait" call to "Drive Out the Bush Regime":
Click on the WCW link just below and see: "Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include". Also on the list is Jane Fonda, Ward Churchill AND the current chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr! Names are in alphabetical order.
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
Fact: World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)
*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration
*Organizes college and high-school students
*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
Also from the Revolutionary Communist Party website: "Tearing Up the U.S. Paper Tiger in Korea: How 300,000 Chinese Troops Snuck into Korea and Kicked the Ass of the U.S. Armed Forces" RW #1059, June 18, 2000:
http://rwor.org/a/v22/1052-059/1059/korea.htm
Finally, here's the Revolutionary Communist Party (see link below) boasting of a FULL PAGE 'World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime' ad of theirs which appeared in the New York Slimes. (either "rwor.org" or "revcom.us" takes you to the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party). The NY Times has since allowed several additional full-page RCP/WCW ads.
Article title: "Who Hated the Bush Step Down Ad in the New York Times? ...And what that Tells Us About Why We Must and How We Can Drive Out the Bush Regime"(actual title)
http://www.rwor.org/a/028/who-hated-bush-ad.htm
*snort*
I can just see them...
Doofus 1: Ok, let's hack into McCain and Palin's emails
Doofus 2: Alright, we can't find McCain's email address. In fact, he doesn't have an email address
Doofus 1: He doesn't use email! Ha! What a dumb rube! Let's get David Axelrod on the phone; that'll make a great ad and show how stupid McCain is.
Doofus 2: Ok, I got Palin's address. I'll need to run some password hacking scripts. Hang on.
Doofus 2: Ok, I'm in.
Doofus 1: Awesome! Get it all and send it over to our buddies at Gawker.
This seems to follow. They found out McCain didn't use email and they take advantage. Obama operatives hacked into Palin's email account and are trying to take advantage.
I mean, really, would you put it past these people?
You don't think twenty-somethings might play Counterstrike?
I’m sure that at least some of the e-shirts are on the DNC/Chicago Machine/MoveOn/Obama campaign payroll.
Not that the MSM will ever report it.
So Watergate was just about sex?
-PJ
***language warning***
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/17/the-story-behind-the-palin-e-mail-hacking/#comments
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):
I missed the original incident, but monitored the discussion and repostings afterward to see what I could learn about what had happened and who was responsible.
There are several misconceptions and errors in most accounts of this story, including your post. Most significantly, the perpetrator(s) were not members of an infamous group of hackers. I don’t blame you for misunderstanding this, because in all the media coverage regarding the war with Scientology the media has completely failed to explain what Anonymous is.
Anonymous is not exactly a group. It is people using the umbrella of a web discussion board for cover to be as offensive, funny, strange, or whatever as they want.
Here’s the short version: there is a site called 4chan.org. It is an image posting site based on a popular Japanese site. The site contains multiple boards, each of which is dedicated to a particular subject. The most notorious of these boards is called /b/. /b/ is the board dedicated to random images. /b/tards, as its denizens are called, are interested only in their own amusement. Their sense of humor runs the gamut from sick to cruel to merely strange. Lolcats, as made famous by http://www.icanhascheezburger.com, originated on /b/. A lot of memes start there. There is a lot of racist humor — pictures of excited and happy black people in proximity to fried chicken abound. There is a lot of pornography. Sometimes it’s child pornography, although posting that is moderator grounds for banning — no, it’s not a pedophile ring; /b/tards post it because they think doing so is funny.
4chan does not log participants. Most people don’t use or have usernames, and post instead as “Anonymous.” And every so often, a number of /b/’s anonymous denizens decide to make somebody’s life hell. Sometimes it’s a random person who offends /b/’s sense of propriety. Sometimes it’s a forum dedicated to a serious topic. Sometimes it’s Scientology. And Tuesday, it was Sarah Palin. Or it would have been.
Sarah Palin’s email account was hacked by one person. Not a group.
This person read her emails, then posted the username and password on /b/. This happened at about 4 in the morning on Tuesday. The idea was that the sea of Anonymous /b/tards would download the emails, upload porn, and cause all manner of mischief. Anonymous is not a group of hackers. Anonymous is more like gremlins. They are hyperactive adolescents in search of amusement and joy, which they often get by upsetting people and making messes. That’s what was happening here. Anonymous did not hack the account. A hacker tried to throw Sarah Palin to Anonymous. Not all of Anonymous was having it. One person threw a crowbar in the works. Other /b/tards were displeased to miss a chance at the lulz. The moderators stepped in. The thread was deleted.
Later, other individuals created threads reposting screencaps of emails and the inbox, and put together a collection of these files. All mentions of these were purged by the moderators. So then some bright /b/tards decided to email what little stuff they had to the media.
That’s pretty much it.
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.
This is what rubico said:
rubico 09/17/08(Wed)12:57:22 No.85782652
Hello, /b/ as many of you might already know, last night sarah palin’s yahoo was “hacked” and caps were posted on /b/, i am the lurker who did it, and i would like to tell the story.
In the past couple days news had come to light about palin using a yahoo mail account, it was in news stories and such, a thread was started full of newfags trying to do something that would not get this off the ground, for the next 2 hours the acct was locked from password recovery presumably from all this bullshit spamming.
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…
>> rubico 09/17/08(Wed)12:58:04 No.85782727
this is all verifiable if some anal /b/tard wants to think Im a troll, and there isn’t any hard proof to the contrary, but anyone who had followed the thread from the beginning to the 404 will know I probably am not, the picture I posted this topic with is the same one as the original thread.
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
I then started a topic on /b/, peeps asked for pics or gtfo and I obliged, then it started to get big
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 shit ever got to the FBI I was fucked, I panicked, i still wanted the stuff out there but I didn’t know how to rapidshit 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
Then the white knight fucker came along, and did it in for everyone, I trusted /b/ with that email password, I had gotten done what I could do well, then passed the torch , all to be let down by the douchebaggery, good job /b/, this is why we cant have nice things
The “white knight fucker” was the /b/tard who thought that going through Sarah Palin’s email wasn’t cool. He logged in, changed the password, and sent an email to a friend of Palin’s warning her and letting her know the new password. Unfortunately, he then posted a screenshot of this email to let the other /b/tards know their fun was over. He failed to blank the password, and they all tried to log in and change the password — which tripped the automated Yahoo! freeze. Since then, the account has been deleted. “Rapidshit” refers to rapidshare.com — i.e., rubico wanted to download the emails, put them into one file, and put that file up on rapidshare for /b/tards and the world at large to download. But he panicked, or didn’t know how to download the emails, and so pawned that task off on Anonymous, which he didn’t realize wasn’t monolithic and in his favor.
As Paul Harvey would say, “And now you know…. the rest of the story.”
I think it would be a racial accusation only if someone on his staff actually DID it.
If IF he was a part of an official obama camp that would pretty much end it for obama. It would disillusion many. But we need to let the chips fall where they may on this one. There is plenty of political hay that will be made without us making false accusations.
What we can do is hammer on what Obama has done which is to violate the logan act by interfering in US foreign policy. That shows his ignorance of his job and position and also his arrogance at the same time.
like: “What kind of medicine is my dog on?”
A: cystolamine
Who the heck would know that?
Your Vet, any of his assistants, the office staff, the cleaning service, etc.
Sarah just got a wakeup call about computer security. At her level now, you’ve got to be very, very careful.
McCain DOES use email. That is a myth.
I understand but how easy would it be as a punk kid to get that kind of info from a sitting governor?
They should be able to lookup/track the Photobucket account “whofwhokilledthebeatles”, at least.
Obama is a Teflon candidate. And he is black, doncha know. An attack of this level by anyone that is not black will not be tolerated. That is a safe bet.
Yes, I know.
I think the spirit of the post was that these idiots are willing to do or say anything not to get their guy elected, per se; but, to tear apart their opposition.
It’s sad.
obumpa
If you read the account on Malkin, the hacker didn’t guess the password. He googled information about her and went to the “forgot my password” link, answered a security question from the googled information, and got a new password. That sounds more like hacking to me.
The dems are trying to spin this as “well she might have used her personal account for government related business to evade oversight.” I don’t know who’s worse, the dems or the media, because they’re all saying it, even the stupid Hollywood gossip show tonight led with the implication that Sarah Palin might face jail time.
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