Good question: How did the hacker get Palin’s e-mail address?
posted at 8:30 pm on September 18, 2008 by Allahpundit
Ace asks and then answers — incorrectly. It’s true that the Washington Post published a private e-mail address of Palin’s back on September 10: gov.sarah@yahoo.com. But that’s not the address that got hacked.
Several other posters handed over the contents of the e-mail account gov.palin@yahoo.com to Wikileaks.org, a site that anonymously hosts leaked government and corporate documents. Wikileaks posted screen shots of two e-mails, Palin’s contact list, and her inbox list, along with two previously unpublished family photos, according to a story on Wikileaks. That address was previously unknown but another, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, already had been mentioned in published reports.
Ars Technica also says it was unknown. People are speculating that it came from the Democrats’ oppo research memo from two years ago that Politico recently published, but I don’t see it in there. So where’d it come from? Three obvious possibilities:
1. The hacker stumbled across the gov.sarah address in the Post and simply guessed there was a gov.palin address, too. Unlikely, though. Why waste time trying to hack accounts that might not exist when you could be trying to hack one that does?
2. Per the AP e-mail republished by Michelle, Palin’s “critics” got the address from records of e-mail communications obtained from the governor’s office. Plausible, but how’d it get from those critics to some 20-year-old /b/tard at 4Chan? And before you say “His dad’s a Democratic pol,” tell me why that info would be leaking down to the level of Tennessee state legislators.
3. One of Palin’s political enemies either corresponded with her personally at that address or got hold of it somehow through someone who did. Same problem as in number two.
The obvious answer is that the /b/tard saw the address online where someone privy to it had posted it. But after Googling around, I can’t see where. The closest I’ve come to finding a pre-hack mention is in the tags at the end of this post at Sarah Palin Truth Squad on September 10, but I think that’s just a case of a tag being added later and then applying retroactively to an already published post. Besides, it’s hard to believe “rubico” would have found it there.
Anyone want to do a little surfing and help crack the case?
Update: Given that “rubico” was trying to access the account to dig up Troopergate dirt and not just for sport, I guess option one is slightly more plausible than I’m giving it credit for being. A hacker out for a joyride might content himself with the publicly known gov.sarah address, but if you’re suspicious that incriminating info’s being hidden and wanted to search comprehensively for it, you might well be inclined to sniff around in the Yahoo directory for other accounts.
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Exactly, if he got in though Yahoo!’s (get your lost password, which is a known idiotic thing on Yahoo’s part), this turd doesn’t need to be using a computer(he is NOT skilled at “hacking”, and can’t help security companies) he needs to be in Jail for publishing the documents, he knew what he was doing was wrong, and he admits to having malicious intent.
Hell, If these morons at liberal yahoo and google want to know how improve security quit asking so many personal questions with relation to security passwords.. (which is basically phishing, what does personal questions have to do with a good password? hello.. makes no sense.. )
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 9:52 PM
The surest method of hacking is “social engineering” not code breaking. The “leak” probably came by bribing an employee of either Palin’s ISP or her email provider. Either that or an employee of either with a political agenda did it on their own initiative.
MaiDee on September 18, 2008 at 9:52 PM
If I left my car out in the street over night and for weeks with the keys in it and someone took it for a “joy ride” or if I set a Big screen TV set out by the street over night and someone took it, I would blame myself.
semloh on September 18, 2008 at 9:57 PM
I didn’t say it’s OK – I said that this shouldn’t have been unexpected. Yahoo is not very secure, and if you happen to get famous someday, you might want to change your passwords. I’m not excusing what the “hacker” did, but this is really a tempest in a teapot and is not worth any more of my time.
Big S on September 18, 2008 at 9:57 PM
You can’t be serious. Just because someone uses Yahoo! or Gmail, doesn’t mean they deserved to get hacked.
terryannonline on September 18, 2008 at 9:58 PM
Folks!!! Obama’s Gmail account hacked!!!!!!
CanadianGuy on September 18, 2008 at 10:01 PM
illegally
Tommy_G on September 18, 2008 at 10:03 PM
You are setting an example that I for one will follow starting right now.
semloh on September 18, 2008 at 10:03 PM
As I said earlier:
Here’s a BETTER question:
WHICH “NEWS-SERVICE” PAID the HACKER who HACKED Sarah Palin’s EMAIL?!!!
grtflmark on September 18, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Um – he did it with a change password request, and guessing the (stupid) Yahoo 3 questions. It was Yahoo’s questions that weren’t strong enough for a public bio.
rhodeymark on September 18, 2008 at 10:06 PM
Just one more comment here and then I will follow Big S’s example. No one said she deserved to get “hacked”. I would not deserve to have my car taken if I left it on the street overnight with the keys in it, but I would blame myself.
semloh on September 18, 2008 at 10:08 PM
The door was locked the keys were not in the ignition(even a 1 character long password is a locked door), and the fugitive jump started and took it for a joy ride and purposefully wrecked the vehicle because they had an axe to grind, now the person has been caught and is facing a felony.
Besides, the email was personal and thus she really wasn’t that worried about the security because she knew that she wasn’t doing anything wrong.(however, this should let everyone else know about passwords, and to not use personal information ***we still don’t know if she did, but Yahoo does ask for personal info, and that is wrong on yahoo’s part***) and, that is obviously a known vulnerability.
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 10:11 PM
The door was locked the keys were not in the ignition(even a 1 character long password is a locked door), and then fugitive picked the lock, jump started the ignition, and took it for a joy ride then purposefully wrecked the vehicle because they had an axe to grind, now the person has been caught and is facing a felony.
Besides, the email was personal and thus she really wasn’t that worried about the security because she knew that she wasn’t doing anything wrong.(however, this should let everyone else know about passwords, and to not use personal information ***we still don’t know if she did, but Yahoo does ask for personal info, and that is wrong on yahoo’s part***) and, that is obviously a known vulnerability.
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 10:18 PM
I must be losing my self restrain. Just one more reply and I promise myself to not comment anymore on this extreme “side bar” thread.
OK, lets just say the keys were in one of those magnetic things under a wheel well and the magnetic thing was sticking out.
No one, but no one, let alone someone well known, should think that Yahoo is a place to put anything secret or even confidential. Period. Especially if they put anything other than something like g%xy&tdE**(#R in the “security” question that they choose.
semloh on September 18, 2008 at 10:18 PM
I think you win the prize. I believe Yahoo offers security questions like: “pet’s name,” “favorite teacher,” “birthplace,” which don’t work well for security if every newspaper in the nation is busy writing detailed stories about your life.
RBMN on September 18, 2008 at 10:18 PM
It wasn’t a “secret” account!
It was for chatting.. DUH!
She had a Government account for business.
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Allah is missing the obvious in regards to point 1. All he had to do was guess once on the gov.palin username, after that the password recovery option confirms its a real address, otherwise it would show up as “user not found”, “user does not exists”
RiteWingFascist on September 18, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Perhaps it is JUST COINCIDENCE the address happened to leak out while dozens of opposition researchers and members of the MSM were digging for gold in the Yukon. And one of the prime suspects at this point JUST HAPPENS to be related to a Democratic official involved with Obama.
Or, it could have come in one of those Nigerian e-mails that promised millions of dollars if you help out a deposed member of a former Royal family get his money out of the country.
Jim M. on September 18, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Shuddering – I just got back from a trip to the Koz Krazys. I will post, then shower, then shower again.
Guess what their take is on the hack? 1) They “officially” want the twerp caught and punished to the full extent of the law and 2) Gleefully pronounce that while the hack was wrong, they are glad that, “at least one Republican knows what it’s like to have their rights violated…” They are hoping this will boomerang and make the FISA issue resurface.
Yep, they are crying big ol crocodile tears over there. Such willful blindness to the total difference between gathering intelligence on possible terrorists, and criminally stealing an official’s email.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on September 18, 2008 at 10:26 PM
If so, then who the hell cares but some shut in tabloid freak if even them.
Tav on September 18, 2008 at 10:30 PM
If someone steals the mail from the mailbox on your house and they are caught, they go to jail. If they slip their hand through the mail slot on your door, and then steal your mail, they go to jail if they are caught. He stole her mail. Period.
He stole and passed out information about her friends and family, who then were harassed. Awful things were said and done with the email addresses and telephone numbers and other personal information in her files.
Sarah Palin did NOTHING wrong.
This young man may be stupid, but MOST criminals are stupid, or they wouldn’t be criminals in the first place. He may be mentally unstable, but that doesn’t differentiate him from other criminals, either.
Five years in the federal pen, minimum. No more federal parole. He better get a low-maintenance hobby with no contraband items involved. Or, he could cut his sentence by testifying about who else was involved, and there WERE others involved.
texette on September 18, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Someone send Barack Obama’s brother some money living on $12 dollar’s a month is a B*tch!
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 10:30 PM
I am not surprised that no dirt was found, and if it had, I would not have been surprised that this kid would be either totally forgotten in the feeding frenzy resulting from his crime, or else looked upon as a left wing folk hero… skating the consequences either way…he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
surrounded on September 18, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Yeah but you would make a police report and your insurance would cover it because that is STEALING!
And how is having a regular password protected yahoo email anything comparable to leaving your keys in the car and the door unlocked? It is more like you parked on the street and someone broke the window and hotwired the car. Maybe an older model that was easier to hotwire but it is just a big of a felony!
And now having a password protected yahoo account is like leaving a TV out? How so? That is just stupid. People have a right to expect privacy.
This is much more like burgerlars breaking into the Watergate hotel for oppo research than anything you mentioned. Maybe Nixon should have said “they needed better locks on the doors at Watergate. If they had better locks we wouldn’t have broken in.”
petunia on September 18, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Don’t blame yourself!!! Blame your parents….I do.
BigWyo on September 18, 2008 at 10:37 PM
It wasn’t her Government e-mail used for business, it was a personal e-mail used for chatting with friends and family not sure why people don’t pull all money of Yahoo and Google.. LMAO why is the stock so high?.. what do they produce? It isn’t security… Nor is a Search engine loaded with ads something that is “ground breaking” or a leading edge in technology.
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 10:37 PM
grtflmark on September 18, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Well AP is saying they won’t cooperate for some reason. Maybe they ought to plead the 5th.
petunia on September 18, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Chakra Hammer just said the account was only used for chatting, not for oppo secrets. Yahoomail is not secure enough to shake a stick at. This is all so ridiculous.
Tav on September 18, 2008 at 10:39 PM
The hacker did not know what the account was “used for”, he was trying to harm Palin and the ticket. PROSECUTE
clnurnberg on September 18, 2008 at 10:41 PM
LOL. Best comment on thread as it means that this thread has one redeeming virtue anyway, that of humor.
Tav on September 18, 2008 at 10:42 PM
I can’t even imagine why what the account was used for should even enter into the equation. The Watergate was a hotel room not Fort Knox. So it is illegal and more important WRONG to be obsessed with Palin that she doesn’t have a basic right to have an email account. That is just beyond the pale. And it should be universally condemned.
It is so like Democrats to blame the victim of a crime for the crime. Protect the criminal is all you care about.
petunia on September 18, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Exactly, and Yahoo! IMHO is negligent and should be sued by someone I think it should be a class action lawsuit, everyone’s email is now in danger because now everyone now knows how to get into a yahoo account.. though “lost password” with little information.(and that is personal information that Yahoo asks for)
LMAO… Kinda like when a building doesn’t shovel off the snow off the sidewalk and someone falls down and gets hurt, they get sued.. (however this effects everyone)
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 10:44 PM
And further if someone has a problem with Palin’s email practices take her to court. Let the law decide. You don’t just break in to someone’s account.
petunia on September 18, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Maybe we should all just do what conservatives are suppose to do, that is not get out the tar and feathers or the rope, but rather let the law take it’s course in determining the severity of this offense. I think that I will go with that.
Tav on September 18, 2008 at 10:50 PM
You’re asking how HACKERS got an email address?
You’re kidding, right?
Dave Rywall on September 18, 2008 at 10:52 PM
Yahoomail is free and remember that old saying – You get what you pay for. Besides they have lawyers and they almost certainly have a disclaimer that those establishing those free email accounts must check and agree to that says that they are not liable.
Out.
Tav on September 18, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Dear Woodward and Bernstein,
There has been a break-in. Hackers have illegally retrieved emails from a candidate for Vice President in an attempt to uncover dirt on her. This is nothing short of a Constitutional Crisis. Get to work boys, start digging, let’s find out who knew what and when they knew it. You two super sleuths, with the full support of the Washington Post forced a sitting president to resign over the cover-up of the same kind of malicious snooping into the opposing party’s files.
I know you can do it fellas. Let’s get to the bottom of this outrageous behavior.
We’ll be waiting for your in-depth investigation and non-stop reporting until these evil-doers are behind bars.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz.
fogw on September 18, 2008 at 10:57 PM
She has the right to have an private e-mail account just like she has the right to have a private cell phone.. (Same thing)
If you have a large window, you have the “right to expect privacy”, however you MUST at least have some kind of curtain over that window to expect that “right to privacy”
If that large window has no curtain or window blinds then
NO right to privacy can be expected as people walking by can look right in..
This is not, the case in this instance, she had the “right the expect privacy” as Yahoo is the one that setup questions used for passwords, as the rules for the account.. WE Don’t know IF Palin created the Yahoo account or if her husband set it up or one of her kids set it up..
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Is there a tie between Kernell and Obama insiders?
Is the Obama campaign’s David Plouffe connected to alleged hacker David Kernell
powerpro on September 18, 2008 at 10:58 PM
It’s NOT free! They get paid every time you use it, because of the ads!
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Having grown up in Tennessee and now living in only slightly more corrupt New Jersey, I wouldn’t put anything past a Tennessee politician as per your possibility #2, Allah. Google “Tennessee Waltz” if you have any doubts about corruption done Tennessee style.
flutejpl on September 18, 2008 at 11:01 PM
No, we were wondering why a Canadian Douche Bag like you, that has no stake in(much less a vote in), this election, keeps posting inane crap here.
No one here really gives a squirt of piss about what you have to say.
You really need to get a friend that’s even a bigger dork than you are. Make fun of him in person. I think you will be a happier person.
And your Mom won’t have to pay for internet anymore.
Everybody Wins!!!
My apologies to the 99.9% of the other Canadians who post here.
BigWyo on September 18, 2008 at 11:04 PM
No, we were wondering why a Canadian Douche Bag like you, that has no stake in(much less a vote in), this election, keeps posting inane crap here.
No one here really gives a squirt of piss about what you have to say.
You really need to get a friend that’s even a bigger dork than you are. Make fun of him in person. I think you will be a happier person.
And your Mom won’t have to pay for internet anymore.
Everybody Wins!!!
My apologies to the 99.9% of the other Canadians who post here.
BigWyo on September 18, 2008 at 11:04 PM
———–
Maybe someday you’ll have half an opinion on the topic at hand. Maybe not.
Until then, keep up your look-at-me-I-hurl-insults-on-an-anonymous-political-site-to-make-myself-and-my-world-renowned-username-BIGWYO-look-AWESOME little Grade 5 ad hominem attacks on me.
They really get to me. Really they do.
Next.
Dave Rywall on September 18, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Palin has to pull those feathers out of the tar smeared on her EVERY SINGLE DAY now. Tar put there by people so possessed by unbridled anger they will break into her private email. Palin is the victim here remember? VICTIM one of your favorite words!
What is this anger based on? If she is really so unqualified why can’t you leave her alone and let the American people make a decision based on facts and not on lies? If you gave her half the pass that Obama has gotten maybe this would have a CHANCE of being a fair contest.
But you are so busy covering up crimes and corruption that you have totally lost site of the Constitution or anything resembling the America we are supposed to be improving.
Obama is a dreadfully unprepared choice and if you let Americans see the truth they won’t vote your way. So you cheat. Let the people vote on real and true information.
I guess that is just too much to ask when it is a Chicago Crook running.
petunia on September 18, 2008 at 11:20 PM
How many attempts did Yahoo! allow into her account?
Why didn’t Yahoo! Block the Account after 2 or 3 failed attempts? and send a letter to the alternate e-mail? OR send a letter to the Yahoo email that someone was trying to change the password?(Someone was trying to access your account and change your password, using based off the personal and private information that used to create this account, if this was not you, please change that information, or change that information anyhow.. as passwords should be changed periodically, thank you)
Seems that Yahoo! doesn’t care about your personnel information, nor do they care about security.
Obviously Palin, doesn’t have anything to hide and she isn’t worried about it.
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Wow…ummm…
Wow…
BigWyo on September 18, 2008 at 11:26 PM
How many attempts did Yahoo! allow into her account?
Why didn’t Yahoo! Block the Account after 2 or 3 failed attempts? and send a letter to the alternate e-mail? OR send a letter to the Yahoo email that someone was trying to change the password?(Someone was trying to access your e-mail account and change your password, using “forgot password” based off the personal and private information that used to create this account, if this was not you, please change that information, and remember to use number and letters and characters in your answers to the questions asked , or change that information anyhow.. as passwords should be changed periodically, thank you, Example: What is your Favorite Sports Team: D/\ B3aR$)
Seems that Yahoo! doesn’t care about your personnel information, nor do they care about security.
Obviously Palin, doesn’t have anything to hide and she isn’t worried about it.
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 11:30 PM
or “rubico” confused gov.sarah with gov.palin, stumbling on another account by sheer dumb luck.
What’s your problem? It’s a legitimate question, whether it was a hacker or not. Considering how the guy actually got into her account, calling him a hacker is a bit of an overstatement anyway.
RightOFLeft on September 18, 2008 at 11:32 PM
BTW, it would be better for them NOT to ask personal information AT ALL, but to ask for a different “control Password” that has nothing to do with personal Information.
Just like that main password, they say give us a password… you say ***************** then they say if you forget…. give us this then it could be anything that NOBODY knows************************************ Just made up stuff.. and that is written down. or a jingle, or song that you remember in your head… something that is strong.
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 11:39 PM
IF he hacked, though Yahoo’s forgotten password, he’s NOT a hacker, he’s a stalker. LMAO
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Palin has Liberals stalker her!
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 11:43 PM
Sarah Palin has liberal stalkers!
Secret Service! Beef Up Security!
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 11:44 PM
What did he do?
1. Hacking
2. Stalking
3. willingly and admitting to try and harm someones career, knowing that what he was doing is illegal.(motive and intent)
4. then, putting the private information in the internet, Phone #’s and supposedly even called one of them.
5. put personal photos and other peoples contact information on the internet, they could sue him.
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 11:57 PM
I’m not sure what Dave’s problem is. He comes here every day to get kicked in the nuts, and when you oblige him..he get’s all angry.
BigWyo on September 19, 2008 at 12:02 AM
hahahahahahaha
urbancenturion on September 19, 2008 at 12:21 AM
There really is no telling which email address was originally targeted because yahoo allows you to have several aliases to the same account. You can have several email addresses that are accessed with the same login. And if she had ever been part of a PTA, mom’s club, little league, hockey league, etc. it might not be beyond reality that her email address was published at some point or another. It might be buried in a pdf newsletter or something but it isn’t unreasonable to think that it was. I found my late wife’s email address and our home phone number and address on an internet accessible spreadsheet published by a local civic organization once.
crosspatch on September 19, 2008 at 12:26 AM
semloh on September 18, 2008 at 10:18 PM
And apparently she didn’t since there was nothing in the email account that was “interesting” to the wanderer.
Cindy Munford on September 19, 2008 at 12:28 AM
I find it amusing to hear conservatives talking about the “right to (expect) privacy” all of a sudden.
Big S on September 19, 2008 at 1:20 AM
There’s always one in a crowd who doesn’t know the difference between a Constitutional right and a right granted by a corporations terms of service.
Hi, one.
Ronnie on September 19, 2008 at 2:16 AM
Yeah, me too. I don’t even answer the question asked but use an easy to remember (for me anyways) password instead. Nobody’s gonna guess my mother’s maiden name.
:)
Browncoatone on September 19, 2008 at 3:02 AM
I find it amusing to find Liberals not caring about someone’s privacy all of a sudden.
Browncoatone on September 19, 2008 at 3:04 AM
Not sure what you are talking about?
as to a peeping tom looking into your window or with the Government doing their job keeping the country safe?(there is a big difference, also IF they can show misuse, they those bad apples involved should be punished in those instances, however that sector has been scrutinized and checked very heavily and they do so OFTEN, and hasn’t had any problems as of yet with personnel)
Chakra Hammer on September 19, 2008 at 3:22 AM
What idiot uses free email accounts to do business?
Yeah, she’s ready to be President… NOT! She obviously has no clue what OPSEC means. And McCain can’t spell email…
really “winners” these two (Huwey and Duwey is more like ti)
TOPV on September 19, 2008 at 5:31 AM
Did someone do business with a free email account?
Ronnie on September 19, 2008 at 5:36 AM
Are you guys serious? I wont tell what the website is here,if Allah wants it, message me. I just tried keying in Palin and Alaska into this website and dozens came up (partially blocked out with *****). Some with .gov some with yahoo etc. But the next step was to pay to have the full email displayed. Thats not the question, the question was who did it.
malkinmania on September 19, 2008 at 6:20 AM
Neither do you, it’s not OPSEC, it’s COMSEC.
BDU-33 on September 19, 2008 at 6:51 AM
Liberal view:
Tapping terrorist phones: Bad
Hack & publish Republican email accounts: Good
Monitor terrorist communications: Bad
Publish American National Security Secrets: Good
TheBigOldDog on September 19, 2008 at 7:01 AM
Conservatives: Our enemies are foreigners out to do America harm
Liberals: Our enemies are Republicans
TheBigOldDog on September 19, 2008 at 7:08 AM
Most of these guys don’t believe that there are terrorists. They also believe that FISA is targeted at domestic opponents of Bush.
The number of these guys in contact with reality can be measured on the fingers of one hand. Without opening your fist.
MarkTheGreat on September 19, 2008 at 7:47 AM
Hacking a password is easy.
There are many ways to do it.
Just to let y’all know, if you use a password that spells something it makes it real easy.
kids names, pets names, sports teams are no protection.
On a local box I can crack a PW in less than a second once I set up some software.
Odd PWs like YGVtr65#f can take all day but will eventually go down.
if you set your computer to store passwords I can dump out a list of user names and PWs once I become admin on you box.
becoming admin takes nothing more than a reboot.
I carry all the necessary tools on 3 little thumb drives.
If Sarah uses a wireless router, someone could set in a car across the street and hack her system with a laptop running some special software.
TheSitRep on September 19, 2008 at 8:45 AM
Bill Clinton late nite phone call to Obama…..dead people can’t talk, remember Barack, this is about the office, its all about getting the office
sbark on September 19, 2008 at 8:53 AM
This is not the hacker that Obama knew.
LibTired on September 19, 2008 at 9:44 AM
Well if you don’t have anything to hide…
LevStrauss on September 19, 2008 at 9:47 AM
LOL :)
It saves the best for last…
From : Richard Cheney
Subject : Fuck you
Message : Fuck you
LimeyGeek on September 19, 2008 at 10:18 AM
TOPV.. ignorance bliss?
I own a business and have not only a corporate account based around my website/business. But I also have three others. One is private through a standard ISP and two are the freebies.
See as a wise business man, given my 25 years around electronics and computer hardware I know systems go down and crash, so I wisely have a series of backups immediately available for use in case my primary business addy goes down.. which it has…
theblacksheepwasright on September 19, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Items to be noted:
1) Even the true hackers are outraged that the perp is being called a “hacker”. Real hackers don’t leave the kind of trail this person did. Hackers might get caught, eventually, but there is usually a bit more work involved in tracking than seems to have been necessary in this case.
2) Most pseudo-hackers bust their pick because they find it necessay to brag about their exploits before making sure their trail is as anon as possible.
3) In his bragging he aludes to his agenda because he states he was disappointed that there was no “damaging” material discovered.
4) When he finally got scared by what might be the penalties for his efforts he bailed, but in his haste left an easily followed trail.
5) All this adds up to an individule with an agenda but not many brain cells. If the perp is in college, as it now seems, his future employment, once out, might be a bit more problematic. Unless he goes on to law school, or become sadept at making license plates.
6) Somebody’s daddy is lawyering up today.
7) Somebody else is shopping the book deal.
Yoop on September 19, 2008 at 12:48 PM
Depends on the system. My router is running encrypted, as is the system from my provider. Most people don’t bother to turn that feature on, much less know it is available. My new provider told me I was the first, of all his customers to use it on my end AND ask him to turn it on at his portal.
Plus, besides the firewall for my machine, there is a double firewall on the wireless providers end. I use it all.
Come sit in my driveway, underneath my antenna. You will just get static, unless you bring a van full of computing power and a massive amount of sniffer software and de-encryption software. And a lot of time.
After all that, what would you see? Posts to Hotair… :-)
Yoop on September 19, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Ummm… option #1 is not exactly rocket-science.
PersonalLiberty on September 19, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Well said!
Trochilus on September 19, 2008 at 4:37 PM
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