Palin Email Hacker Found 767
mortonda writes to tell us that the person responsible for breaching Sarah Palin's private email account has been found. We discussed the breach last Wednesday, shortly before the hacker, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, posted a message detailing his methods. Wired has a story examining the potential legal consequences for the hacker.
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The cracker is a /b/tard, don't think that you need to go into it any deeper than that.
I'm happy that some of that information came out. If it came down to it, I'd put in 10bux for his legal defense.
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Unless someone just compromised that forum account and framed him.
Welp (Score:1, Funny)
I assume the kid is screwed (Score:2, Funny)
"It would be a stretch to charge a felony [in the Palin case], but if they want to be hard on [the hacker], they could do that,"
Let's see. Hacking into the Republican VP candidate's email under the Bush regime. Gosh, what are the odds they will find a judge who will bite on the felony rap? I mean, really, if any words comes to mind when I think of Neocons it must be "forgiving" and "merciful".
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Are you a jew?
He's about as Jewish as he is a fucking monkey.
Re:Shame on you Slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
When you put untrusted evidence on untrusted slashdot, the two cancel each other out, making it the truth.
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What do you know, another politician's teenager! - a State Rep's son From Tennessee!
At least he didn't get some girl pregnant!
step to step guide how not to get caught (Score:5, Funny)
2) Find open wifi network, choose a place far from where you live
3) Connect to TOR and do your dirty deeds
4) Clean finger prints from PC and trash it, far from where you live
OR
1) Goto internet cafe, ensure cafe has no security cameras
2) Pay with cash
3) Connect to TOR and do your dirty deeds
4) Clean finger prints from computer
Profit?
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If the general public were half as smart as we give them credit for the world would have never seen Napoleian, Cesar (well actually the Romans solved that problem on their own), Castro, Hugo Chavez and more.
The others are fair enough, but what's dog food got to do with it?
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Makes you wonder which side of her mouth tells the truth doesn't it?
She's a Republican Neo-Con. Her mouth isn't what side that noise is coming from.
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That's actually not true. If you take the time to look at the information posted on wikileaks, you'll notice a number of emails have titles such as "Draft letter to Governor Schwarzenegger / Container Tax", "Court of Appeals / Executive Director Parole Board / Boards and Commissions", "Re: DPS Personnel and Budget Issues", "Court of Appeals Nominations", "FW: CONFIDENTIAL Ethics Matter".
No, no, no...
Those weren't actual messages about government business.
They were just spam messages with misleading subject lines crafted to trick a politician into reading them.
Governors on yahoo get them ALL the time!
You should see the spam she gets now that she is a vp candidate - lots of messages that appear to be from Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Jerry Falwell and Bob Dole.
But open them up, and they are just advertisements for viagra. Wait a second, the ones from Bob Dole probably really are from him.
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He's about as Jewish as he is a f****** monkey./quote>
What about a regular one? [xkcd.com]
Re:Actually No (Score:4, Funny)
. . . the ACTUAL GUY WHO READ THE EMAILS said there was nothing incriminating.
And if you can't trust the legal opinion of the guy who cracked her account, who can you trust?
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Someone violated her privacy, broke the law, and distracted from other issues during the presidential election.
I might cut someone a little slack for the first two, but "distracted from the issues" is indeed a serious crime that any political candidate or even average citizen would find shocking to the core.
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sincerely yours,
O.J. Simpson
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>>lots of messages that appear to be from Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Jerry Falwell and Bob Dole.
And the creepiest part is that Falwell has been dead for over a year!
-b
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I'd rather see him work in a bank, than have him screw up my Big Mac.
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Shhhhhh! You're going to blow my cover!
-Billco
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Anyways, your courts may be doing well, but from what they told me, you've been without a federal government for 6+ months now :)
And that would be a bad thing how?