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[AP] Hackers claim break-in to Palin's e-mail account

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  1. Roxfan73

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    Hackers claim break-in to Palin's e-mail account

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate.

    "This is a shocking invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them," the McCain campaign said in a statement.

    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.

    One person whose e-mail to Palin apparently was among those disclosed, Amy B. McCorkell, declined to discuss her correspondence. "I do not know anything about it," McCorkell said. "I'm not giving you any comment." Wired.com said McCorkell later confirmed that she did send the e-mail to Palin.

    Another of the e-mails apparently revealed Wednesday was an exchange in July with Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell discussing a talk show host who had been critical of Parnell. Parnell declined to discuss the matter.

    Palin herself used "gov.sarah" in her e-mail address, and her husband used "fek9wnr" in his address. "Fe" is the representation for iron, and "k9" is an abbreviation for canine. Todd Palin was the winner of the grueling Iron Dog snowmobile race, and "fek9wnr" also is Todd Palin's vehicle license tag in Alaska.

    It wasn't immediately clear how hackers broke into Palin's Yahoo! account, but it would have been possible to trick the service into revealing her password knowing personal details about Palin that include her birthdate and ZIP code. A hacker also might have sent a forged e-mail to her account tricking her into revealing her own password.

    McCorkell was appointed by Palin to an advisory board on issues involving alcohol and drug abuse. One of the leaked e-mails suggested McCorkell wrote to Palin on Sunday to say she was praying for Palin. "Don't let the negative press get you down!" the message said.
     
  2. lpbman

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    Might be interesting, but with her voracious, inquisitive mind it probably won't be... unless it turns up some sort of abuse or crime. I'm not interested in the soap box stuff.

    Powell used a Yahoo account while Secretary of State iirc, to the horror of George Tenet.
     
  3. DonnyMost

    DonnyMost be kind. be brave.
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    Great, so we get to see what Bible-Verse-A-Day mailing list she subscribes to as well as how much bigger her c*ck can be made with mexican viagra.

    Riveting.
     
  4. SamFisher

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    Some screens were posted on gawker, typical hacker crap just enough to show you that they hacked it but nothing at all good.
     
  5. Bandwagoner

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    typical republican scam to keep her name in the news.
     
  6. yaoluv

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    only interesting thing is that her email address is gov.palin@yahoo.com and other govt employees email her govt business to this address

    LOL

    They really could make a pretty could disney movie out of this.

    O look the secretary of defense just poked me on facebook, I better post on his wall to see whats up.
     
  7. DonnyMost

    DonnyMost be kind. be brave.
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    LOL :D

    And the race to the bottom continues

    "one of us".... barf
     
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    Her husband's username is fek9wnr? awesome!
     
  9. El_Conquistador

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    Is there any doubt that the liberals and Obama have launched the most despicable smear campaign of all time against this woman?


    This story will offend women everywhere and will no doubt work against the liberal hackers' wishes.
     
  10. rimrocker

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    Mrs. rimrocker is not offended. Neither are my female friends in Anchorage. They would like to know why an elected governor was conducting State of Alaska business from a private email account and why Palin feels compelled to cover up what should legally be state records belonging to the people of Alaska.
     
  11. BlastOff

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    WAAAH!
     
  12. rimrocker

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    FYI, the recent CBS poll is out today...

    I guess the bloom is off the rose.

    By the way, the same poll has Obama up by 5 and he has retaken the lead among independents and women. The women numbers are huge and show the disaffection with Palin:

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/17/opinion/polls/main4456249.shtml
     
  13. Oski2005

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    Yeah, Obama is always chilling on 4chan.

    These are the same people who went after Scientology.
     
  14. glad_ken

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    This article came out on Tuesday. It didn't take them very long to hack her account...

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    Alaskans question Palin's e-mail secrecy
    Governor routinely uses private account for state business


    By Lisa Demer | McClatchy Newspapers
    ANCHORAGE - Moments after Gov. Sarah Palin's first speech as Republican John McCain's running mate, she sat with her kids backstage, thumbing one of the two BlackBerrys that are always with her. You can see them in photographs from that day on the campaign blog of one of McCain's daughters.

    The tech-savvy governor has one of the devices (which allow users to read and send e-mails) for state business and another for personal matters, but those worlds intertwine.

    Palin routinely uses a private Yahoo e-mail account to conduct state business. Others in the governor's office sometimes use personal e-mail accounts, too.

    The practice raises questions about backdoor secrecy in an administration that vowed during the 2006 campaign to be "open and transparent."

    Even before the McCain campaign plucked Palin from Alaska, a controversy was brewing over e-mails in the governor's office. Was the administration trying to get around the public records law through broad exemptions or private e-mail accounts?

    Activists, still fighting to obtain hundreds of e-mails that were withheld from public records requests earlier this year, say that's what it looks like.

    The governor's Yahoo account is "the most nonsensical, inane thing I've ever heard of," said Andree McLeod, who is appealing the administration's decision to withhold e-mails.

    "The governor sets the tone and the tone that has been set by this governor is beyond the pale," McLeod said. "Common sense tells you to use an official state e-mail account for official state business."

    Palin, busy with the vice presidential campaign, did not respond to requests for comment or answer an e-mail sent to her Yahoo account. The Washington Post included Palin's Yahoo e-mail address in a recent story, so she may not be using that one anymore.

    Her staff says the governor is open - within reason and within the law.

    She is allowed to keep e-mails confidential if they fall into certain categories, such as "deliberative process," said her press secretary, Bill McAllister.

    And, he said later, she appropriately uses her personal Yahoo account for political activities.

    "I don't hear any public clamor for access to internal communications of the governor's office," McAllister said. "I know there are some people out there blogging and talking who would like to embarrass the governor by taking an internal communication and spinning it in some fashion."

    State lawyers say that the governor's e-mails about public business should be treated like any other public record, even if she's sent them through a private account such as Yahoo.

    Some of her aides also routinely use Yahoo, but even messages sent from one private account to another should be public, if they concern public business, said Dave Jones, an assistant attorney general.

    "The difficulty is finding out they exist," Jones said.

    It's a new twist on an old problem: How to keep an eye on the government. And Palin's expected absences from Alaska for the presidential campaign add urgency to the debate. Is she going to be running the state long-distance on her BlackBerry?

    Some experts on open government say officials around the country escape scrutiny by either quickly deleting e-mails or using private accounts, as Palin has done.

    "Where you've got a governor apparently using a Yahoo account for state business, that's kind of a complete inversion of what ought to be happening in terms of public records," said Charles Davis, executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition and a Missouri journalism associate professor.

    "E-mail that's public business ought to be done on public accounts that can become public record," he said.

    Just how much of the state's business does Palin conduct through her BlackBerrys? Her chief of staff didn't respond to that question. But she often is glued to her devices.

    Her Yahoo e-mails got the attention of political activists Zane Henning, a Wasilla resident and North Slope worker, and McLeod, a former legislative staffer and Republican who has run for state House and mayor.

    In response to similar but separate public records requests, McLeod and Henning this summer received four banker boxes of e-mail and telephone records for two Palin aides: Frank Bailey and Ivy Frye. Henning was operating on behalf of the Valley group Last Frontier Foundation, which lists property rights and public records as among its core issues on its Web site.

    "I think that it's total hypocrisy from what she stood for at the beginning of her campaign," Henning said. "Because she campaigned on open government, and she knew that using a private e-mail account would take it and basically hide stuff that people couldn't see."
     
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    Go take a look at 4chan. They hate everything.
     
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    Somebody must've forgot the Clintons being accused of murder by the right wingers.
     
  17. pppbigppp

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    Obama's email was also hacked :D

    [​IMG]
     
  18. DonnyMost

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    LOL @ the cheney email & hendrix avatar
     
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    "BUT I SAID THANKS BUT NO THANKS ON THAT BRIDGE TO NOWHERE!"


    getting old........and a lie.
     
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    LOL at the Monster ad on his page! :D Priceless image.
     

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