Comments on: Why to not use yahoo for government email. http://bearingdrift.com/2008/09/18/why-not-to-use-yahoo-for-government-email/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:47:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremy Hinton http://bearingdrift.com/2008/09/18/why-not-to-use-yahoo-for-government-email/#comment-7221 Jeremy Hinton Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:41:37 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=1797#comment-7221 Obama supporting? Love to know where you got that. We don't even know if it was done from the US. Like you, i hope they catch the person who did it. In my experience, most script kiddies are generally apolitical. Considering the simplicity involved in getting access to her account, my guess is it was some 15 year old who said - "wow, this famous person uses yahoo? hey, i'm a 733t h4xx0r, watch this! pwned." The forum the hack was posted to is mainly known for going after Scientology. WikiLeaks for their part is all about government and corporate whistleblowing, and with the controversy swirling around Gov Palin's staff use of personal emails, its a natural place for the stuff to end up. As for my "spin", I'm sure anyone involved in computer security was shaking their head when the whole govt use of personal yahoo emails story broke, regardless of their political stripe. Obama supporting? Love to know where you got that. We don’t even know if it was done from the US. Like you, i hope they catch the person who did it.

In my experience, most script kiddies are generally apolitical. Considering the simplicity involved in getting access to her account, my guess is it was some 15 year old who said – “wow, this famous person uses yahoo? hey, i’m a 733t h4xx0r, watch this! pwned.” The forum the hack was posted to is mainly known for going after Scientology.

WikiLeaks for their part is all about government and corporate whistleblowing, and with the controversy swirling around Gov Palin’s staff use of personal emails, its a natural place for the stuff to end up.

As for my “spin”, I’m sure anyone involved in computer security was shaking their head when the whole govt use of personal yahoo emails story broke, regardless of their political stripe.

]]> By: dsbaf http://bearingdrift.com/2008/09/18/why-not-to-use-yahoo-for-government-email/#comment-7218 dsbaf Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:52:20 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=1797#comment-7218 Way to spin your side out of the issue, Jeremy. The story here, since you're trying so hard to forget, is that left wing, Obama supporting criminals hacked into Palin's email, in violation of federal law. It's one more in a long line of indicators that the Left is running scared, and they will do anything -- legal or otherwise -- to save Obama's campaign. Way to spin your side out of the issue, Jeremy. The story here, since you’re trying so hard to forget, is that left wing, Obama supporting criminals hacked into Palin’s email, in violation of federal law.

It’s one more in a long line of indicators that the Left is running scared, and they will do anything — legal or otherwise — to save Obama’s campaign.

]]> By: Jeremy Hinton http://bearingdrift.com/2008/09/18/why-not-to-use-yahoo-for-government-email/#comment-7172 Jeremy Hinton Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:13:40 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=1797#comment-7172 Among the headers listed at the bottom of the page are some that certainly look to be work related. There have been articles about her office's use of personal email for a little while, here's a recent one i linked to a prior post - <a href="http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/526281.html" rel="nofollow">Governors two e-mail accounts questioned<a/> Among the headers listed at the bottom of the page are some that certainly look to be work related.

There have been articles about her office’s use of personal email for a little while, here’s a recent one i linked to a prior post -

Governors two e-mail accounts questioned

]]> By: The Squeaky Wheel http://bearingdrift.com/2008/09/18/why-not-to-use-yahoo-for-government-email/#comment-7165 The Squeaky Wheel Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:41:38 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=1797#comment-7165 I looked at the web sote you cite.. I do not see any government business there. Emailing people from work to complain about the media isn't government work. Unless I missed it (and I could have) where is there evidence of Government work in those emails? I looked at the web sote you cite.. I do not see any government business there. Emailing people from work to complain about the media isn’t government work.

Unless I missed it (and I could have) where is there evidence of Government work in those emails?

]]> By: The Squeaky Wheel http://bearingdrift.com/2008/09/18/why-not-to-use-yahoo-for-government-email/#comment-7164 The Squeaky Wheel Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:39:07 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=1797#comment-7164 They got on because if you "Forget" you PW on yahoo, all you need is some easy to come by info and a security question. In this case it was asking where she met her husband. The hacker figured that out pretty easily They got on because if you “Forget” you PW on yahoo, all you need is some easy to come by info and a security question. In this case it was asking where she met her husband. The hacker figured that out pretty easily

]]> By: Jason http://bearingdrift.com/2008/09/18/why-not-to-use-yahoo-for-government-email/#comment-7162 Jason Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:31:40 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=1797#comment-7162 The thing is, you needed to have a secondary address for that to have worked. Whoever's claiming to be the awesome haxzor skipped that part, from what I understand. So either that's NOT how it was done or there's more to the story than that (ie - covering their ass because it wasn't "hacking" so much as "looking"). The thing is, you needed to have a secondary address for that to have worked. Whoever’s claiming to be the awesome haxzor skipped that part, from what I understand. So either that’s NOT how it was done or there’s more to the story than that (ie – covering their ass because it wasn’t “hacking” so much as “looking”).

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