As someone on 4Chan said:

“Anonymous 09/17/08(Wed)00:48:41 No.1550558

look, there are three possibilities for what happened.

1) The guy who got in was a complete tool, got the password, took a couple useless screenshots, then posted the password so everyone tried it and the account locked, ending all hope of anon winning the election.

2) The guy was not a complete tool. He got the password, took screenshots of everything he could, and generally copied all possible information. Then, for some reason, he decides to put up the password and a couple of useless screenshots, just to taunt the tubes.

3) This is the best troll ever.”

A friend of mine who is on 4Chan IMed me this afternoon about this. And his opinion is very similar — that whoever did this was an idiot, as they only seemed to take trophies as if to say “Look what I did” instead of actually trying to find out anything interesting.

They deserve to be caught.

I am a 911 dispatcher, and police officers need to run names through the National Crime Info Computer quite often.
Once, a police officer gave me a name, and instead of running “Clinton Prince” like he asked me, I ran “Roger Clinton.”
D’oh.

Within 30 seconds, the phone rang. It was the USSS. They interrogated me as to why I had run the brother of the president.
They were not in the mood to play, and only after about 5 minutes of my explaining and apologizing did they accept my explanation.
I was terrified.

Be afraid, “anonymous.”
Be very afraid.

Hope they enjoy Federal “pound me in the A%#” prison.

Secret Service doesn’t mess around.

Both the Secret Service and the FBI are involved, pace CNN

Brian Hale, an FBI spokesman in Washington, also confirms the FBI has been contacted about the incident. Two federal law enforcement sources say the FBI and Secret Service would have concurrent jurisdiction normally on a matter such as this, but it remains to be seen if the Secret Service will take the lead on the investigation because Palin is a protectee.

Who knows maybe even the NSA is looking.

Gosh I hope so! That would make my day even brighter.

People like these prove just how malicious many on the left can be. Talk about a bunch of subhuman trash! I sure hope that there is karma in this world. These people need a good dose of what they have been doing to Sarah Palin. Hopefully it will come around to them! Why would anyone want to be a member of a party that is just this side of the Nazis!

will this story get if these wackjobs turn out to be Obama supporter? How much attention if they are actually connected to Obama’s campaign in some way?
Don’t think Obama is capable of such sleazy political tactics? Gullible much?

“Osama bin Laden was a community organizer. George W. Bush was a Governor.”

Will the law really go after these creeps? Somehow I doubt it.

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doesn’t scare the AP. Their agents went to the AP and requested copies of the e-mails. They refused to provide them.

in the pursuit of TERRORISTS?

Palin, of course, is different.

And so unfolds the gospel of The One.

I wonder if the omission has meaning?

I’ve never seen this kind of depravity, not even during the Bush-Gore recount fiasco.

Disagree with the women’s politics if you want, but posting personal family photos and the private numbers and emails of her family (while others gleefully cheer it on) is an act of pure unadulterated bigotry.

Really, we need to find out who Gawker’s sponsors are and demand they stop doing business with them. Hit them where it hurts.

Obama will lose Illinois.

Will the law go after them as well?

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does a government official have using a personal email account to conduct official business? If Palin didn’t have things to hide, she wouldn’t be afraid to use the state’s email, would she?

It’s her own fault for trying to weasle around the letter of the law.

In this political correctness/press biased climate playing the 5th column of our country, then any investigation will get smeared, and then stopped. If the FBI/Secret Service doesn’t care, heads will definitely roll. Let the blood bath begin.

The left has truly lost there mind. I hope they catch these people and they get what’s coming to them.

I read the AP release on the hacking. There was absolutely no condemnation of the hack job, but there was this:

The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply.

The disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration’s use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business. The practice was revealed months ago — prior to Palin’s selection as a vice presidential candidate — after political critics obtained internal e-mails documenting the practice by some aides.

The veneer of impartiality is wearing very thin.

nt

For years the press has been playing the role of gadfly to conservatives while ignoring or even covering up the missteps of liberal administrations. Recently they have been taking a much more agressive role in manipulationing public opinion. After the attack on 9/11 their efforts have resulted in compromising national security secrets; bin Laden’s cell phone and tracking financial records are just two. And now they are actively participating in an attack on a Vice-Presidential candidate. This is a direct threat to the substance of a free press. They are moving into the realm of a fifth column during what could be considered the most dangerous threat to the existence United States since it was founded.
If McCain/Palin are elected I pray that their administration pursues these traitors more vigorously than did Bush.

Doesn’t matter if the AP “won’t” release this to the USSS.
They will get a court order, they will get what they want, and heads will roll.
Remember folks, these guys are perfectly willing to take a bullet for their charge. They sure as hell will use every means necessary to identify and take down and put away a cybercriminal who attacks her.

Get ‘em, boys.

Dirt Diggers & Opposition Researchers the Dems sent up to Alaska??

HMMMMM wonder if they’re involved

They don’t give a damn about anything except provoking exactly the kind of reaction they’re getting from this story. They’re amoral and apolitical and exist only to harvest delicious lulz. If you lump them in with the kossacks etc you’re completely misunderstanding their whole raison d’etre.

check it out: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Obama
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Mccain

They dump on everyone that they can get a reaction out of.

The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply.

Publishing something that endangers our national security (and lives)…no problem.

Giving information to the feds for an investigation into illegal hacking…no way.

They do have their principles, don’t they.

I seriously want to know if there was any collusion here from an employee or employees of Yahoo itself or other internet companies, which wouldn’t surprise in the least.

These internet companies are cram-packed with San Francisco Bay Area barking left wing loonies.

Yahoo in particular, if you ever look at the headlines it selects for its main news page, is practically in MSNBC territory.

“This incident illustrates why we have been so opposed to the Bush administration’s illegal eavesdropping on millions of Americans. Yes, we believe the people responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And no, we cannot afford to have a McCain administration continue the Bush policies of unlimited domestic spying, hacking, and wiretapping.”

This is disgusting, and I hope the McCain campaign tries to pin it back on Obama.

Was there anything revealed in the emails that will cause problems for the McCain campaign?

There is no doubt in my mind the Obama campaign was behind this and the fact the AP is protecting them only makes it more clear in my mind

The thugs are doing everything possible to seal this election and smear Palin

Its high time we remind voters of Obama’s William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and his people in small town America reference to God and guns. This guy is nasty

more than likely they were simply able to guess
her password….

that or they were able to install a keylogger
on one of the machines she regularly uses. and
installing a keylogger would be a degree of
difficulty more than guessing her password.

at least, as far as I’ve been able to tell, yahoo
sends their password information over https…
and yet redstate continues to use http…
the difference between the two is being able to
sniff the password off the network..

Notice how this is not even on news really

The fact that a person running for President as their emails hijacked and the AP says no to turning them over to Secret Service (and in article they didn’t even explain why)

No media will even cover this story sadly

As someone who has been trying to help some colleagues in Georgia protect a web site from Russian ddos attacks, I have to say, the remarks here display a remarkable lack of understanding.
Russian hackers are everywhere. We had 4000 hits per second ddos attack on the pro-Georgia web site that closed down hosting companies in Georgia, Lithuania, western Europe and eventually the US.

The Russians are all over this stuff, and way ahead of the US in the use of cyber warfare. Although many kids have declared yahoo email accounts “easy” to hack, they are, in fact, not at all easy. Yahoo, like google has teams of top notch security and info warfare people working on security issues. I have a little insight into google and yahoo’s operation because I have a PhD employee who has worked at both companies.

They know, like credit card companies know, that their trustworthiness is everything. To allow an easy hack would destroy them. Hacking them takes professionals.

Look to the Russians, who really don’t want McCain, good friend of Georgia, to be elected. The Palin yahoo email account was low hanging fruit.

Much more to come, I’n sure

If you read my previous posts, you know I’m not thrilled with McCain. I would have voted for him if he had showed some concern for the well being of our country with his VP pick. But when he picked Palin, he lost me. I will not vote for anyone who is willing to put Sarah Palin in the Whitehouse.

McCain’s “strong defense” arguments all fall away when we see what he is willing to do to our country. I’m all about keeping our country strong, and Sarah Palin is the utter antithesis of this. I’m disgusted.

But what will happen next with the emails is easy to predict. Whatever is detrimental to McCain will be released – slowly so it stays in the news. And the drip-drip-drip will prove to be fatal to the McCain campaign.

Why, oh why, didn’t McCain pick Romney as VP? It was such an obvious choice to round out the ticket. McCain claiming he knows little about the economy is coming back to bight him hard.

If you read my previous posts, you know I’m not thrilled with McCain. I would have voted for him if he had showed some concern for the well being of our country with his VP pick. But when he picked Palin, he lost me. I will not vote for anyone who is willing to put Sarah Palin in the Whitehouse.

McCain’s “strong defense” arguments all fall away when we see what he is willing to do to our country. I’m all about keeping our country strong, and Sarah Palin is the utter antithesis of this. I’m disgusted.

But what will happen next with the emails is easy to predict. Whatever is detrimental to McCain will be released – slowly so it stays in the news. And the drip-drip-drip will prove to be fatal to the McCain campaign.

Why, oh why, didn’t McCain pick Romney as VP? It was such an obvious choice to round out the ticket. McCain claiming he knows little about the economy is coming back to bight him hard.

Yeah the Russian put emails on Gawker and other liberal sites

You are no Republican

Whatever moron(s) did this deserve the most severe punishment the law allows.

If someone takes issue with the use of personal e-mail accounts to avoid disclosure of the people’s business there’s a way to go after those documents. This is not it.

Anonymous is peopled by idiots. This won’t end well for those involved.

I can’t read this entire blog again (it’s growing too fast), so I don’t know if anyone has really hit on this with the exception of here4money (kind of funny name…wonder if this person is a paid troll???) Anyhow, some of the lefty talking heads are saying that Palin uses private email accounts to conduct official business which can’t be subpoenaed. They have no proof, it is just something I heard several of them say tonight on different cable news channels. So they are trying to turn this whole thing around and make Palin look bad. I think here4money gave us an insight into what the left is trying to do. I’m starting to think that this is far more than just the anonymous idiots having fun. Maybe there is something really going on here, not just a stupid hacker prank. The talking points are already out there. Accuse Palin of wrong doing without evidence. Make her the bad guy instead of a victim. We’ll see. Lord help the USA if the lefties take over completely…they are the meanest of the mean.

Her and her staff’s use of email has garnered her three Ethics Act complaints here in Alaska. Complaints that she WILL lose.

Taking a page from the WH book, she tried to avoid the State of Alaska’s email system by maintaining a private account and communicating with her staff, Todd, and others through that account.

If anybody working for her had known their a__ from their elbow, they’d have told her in no uncertain terms that anything she put in an email on the State or any other system would wind up on the front page of the Anchorage Daily News. Yet, she and many of her staffers used their Blackberries like Ninth Grade girls.

Now that she’s VP Nominee, she apparently still keeps using the the Yahoo account. Some things you just don’t do!

Sent in by a reader.. It explains pretty much everything that happened and how.

I would love to see this proof that you obviously have on said emails. I may just be dumb but I never knew that an elected official could’nt have her own email address. Again I may be loopy but a woman emailing her husband on a private account does’nt really sound that bad to me. Is she supposed to talk about stopping at the store and picking up some milk on government emails? I see you have been here for a while and I am just a newbie pion but your post seems silly to me. Who cares what she uses her Blackberry for. And who cares that she emails her friends from a private account. It appears to me her administration has a pretty good idea where their a%$ and elbow are, since they have an 80% approval rating. Even if she sent top secret polar bear intelligence thru a private account. It does’nt make this violation of law right. There are many ways to get at those emails without breaking the law. If I am wrong on Alaskan elected official email law then I am sorry, but I just dont see what the problem is.

I would love to see this proof that you obviously have on said emails. I may just be dumb but I never knew that an elected official could’nt have her own email address. Again I may be loopy but a woman emailing her husband on a private account does’nt really sound that bad to me. Is she supposed to talk about stopping at the store and picking up some milk on government emails? I see you have been here for a while and I am just a newbie pion but your post seems silly to me. Who cares what she uses her Blackberry for. And who cares that she emails her friends from a private account. It appears to me her administration has a pretty good idea where their a%$ and elbow are, since they have an 80% approval rating. Even if she sent top secret polar bear intelligence thru a private account. It does’nt make this violation of law right. There are many ways to get at those emails without breaking the law. If I am wrong on Alaskan elected official email law then I am sorry, but I just dont see what the problem is.

I would love to see this proof that you obviously have on said emails. I may just be dumb but I never knew that an elected official could’nt have her own email address. Again I may be loopy but a woman emailing her husband on a private account does’nt really sound that bad to me. Is she supposed to talk about stopping at the store and picking up some milk on government emails? I see you have been here for a while and I am just a newbie pion but your post seems silly to me. Who cares what she uses her Blackberry for. And who cares that she emails her friends from a private account. It appears to me her administration has a pretty good idea where their a%$ and elbow are, since they have an 80% approval rating. Even if she sent top secret polar bear intelligence thru a private account. It does’nt make this violation of law right. There are many ways to get at those emails without breaking the law. If I am wrong on Alaskan elected official email law then I am sorry, but I just dont see what the problem is.

Right now David Lightman and Jennifer Mack are desperately looking for Professor Stephen Falken.

A certain amount of tradecraft is expected.

I have watched almost in horror as the whole Trooper thing and the email controversy has unwound. Had that happened on my watch, I’d have invited the Anchorage Daily News’ reporters over and performed ritual seppuku right before their eyes – figuratively, of course. Certainly, I wouldn’t have expected to be working the next day.

Investigate those people who have been said to be offering money just to get dirts of the Palins.

And all MSM demi-gods who use information related to the Palin’s hacked e-mails should be considered as accomplices, if not the main culprits.

I am not making accusations here. I’m just trying to be practical and rational on everything that has come out from the media in the last 19 days.

Now it has come to our attention that the evil and ominous plan to destroy Sarah Palin is VERY REAL. It involves not just people, not just supporters, but also MONEY.

Sadly, MSM are the main actors in the said plan.

As I see it, Sarah Palin has had so much crap flung at her in such a short period of time, I’m wondering how she keeps going on. The attacks on her family and her integrity are unbelievable. It appears that the left is willing to do anything it takes to get O’bama (isn’t he part Irish?) elected. I can’t tell you how excited I was about Sarah Palin being picked to be our VP candidate. I actually got excited about going to the polls this November. I just don’t know if she can survive such a tsunami of pure crap…I don’t know how anyone could. I‘m hoping for the best, but I just don’t know. I can’t imagine being in such a position. I feel for her and her family. If she makes it through this gauntlet, she will have proven herself to be far stronger than I could have imagined. Someone, please give me a couple of words of encouragement. I don’t think this country can survive O’bama. I sure as hell don’t want him being our Commander in Chief.

The articles that allow comments about this hacking reveal the duplicitous nature of those on the left. The same people who whine about what an incredible invasion of privacy it would be if someone found out which books they checked out at the library are apparently ok with this invasion of Sarah Palin’s email account.

Anyone who uses public email systems. assuming that they are safe and secure, deserve the grief they get when their email is exposed.

We use the analogy of email on the Internet to sending a post card through the postal system – if you don’t want it read, don’t send it.

My company goes to extraordinary means to secure our Internet email communications. We have software that scans every outbound email for any indication that it includes private information. If such an email is detected, it is automatically routed via a secure email system. We also block internal access to webmail accounts so employees cannot use them from the office. Bottom line is if our email is hacked…we get sued.

People who are more concerned about avoiding scrutiny rather then securing their on-line communications should consider that.

What could be more revealing than a peak into our private e-mail accounts, even just for mundane personality and lifestyle quirks. Palin has undergone an MRI here and what was found squares with her public commitment to ethics and is revelatory with regards to her faith. I hope she continues to hold up under the intense scrutiny, because with each passing grade she adds more strength to the ticket.

That little snippet of news that I hear when my alarm clock goes off suggested that the hackers discovered impropriety on Gov. Palin’s part. It sounded like she used her GOVERNMENT account for CAMPAIGN e-mails, which would be illegal; instead of using her PRIVATE account for GOVERNMENT e-mails, which is merely bad practice.

Of course, there was no mention that the hackers broke any laws.

I pray that Gov. Palin’s speechwriters come up with a good soundbyte that encapsulates how the hackers found nothing juicy and how her family continues to be attacked.

Many people get emails everyday on their checking account balances and for someone to hack their accounts its very disgusting

….if this hacking is linked to the left.

The only crime in this whole thing, according to the socialists, is whether or not Sarah used her private email for Gov’t business? Where the hell do these people come from!!!!

You may not remember this but in 2006 when Lt. gov. Michael Steele, R-MD, ran for the U.S. Senate, he suffered identity theft at the hands of the left.

The investigation was traced back to two Chuck Schumer aids and I believe one of them was prosecuted for it.

The fact that the Wikileaks source called themselves “Anonymous” and the presence of a /b/ tab on one of the screenshots tells me one thing: this was 4chan trolling. 4chan isn’t exactly to the left or the right, and they’re certainly far removed from what we know as the online left. 4chan, or at least most of /b/, is mostly an organization of professional trolls. They’ve hacked junk at random (for lulz), started basically every internet meme in the past ten years, and recently have been in an intense fight with the Church of Scientology.
Also, they’re generally a smart bunch when it comes to hacking. Not to mention quite decentralized. As their own motto says: “WE ARE ANONYMOUS. WE ARE LEIGON.”

Frankly, I doubt they were trying to advance anyone’s political agenda. This was classic trolling, barging in, proving that they could hack the Yahoo account of a vice presidential candidate, and then giving back the password without doing any actual harm.

I was wondering for a long time how Anonymous will wind up on someone’s radar. I hope the USSS pursues this with all available resources, at least to see exactly how prepared they are to deal with online criminals. And so see Uncle Sam get his lulz.