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Sarah Palin Craves 'Hacking' Justice, Endless Martyrdom
After enduring vicious hate attacks by David Letterman, Barack Obama and random Photshop-wielding bloggers, Sarah Palin caught a moment to remind everyone, via Twitter, that tomorrow her email "hacker" stands trial in Tennessee. Remember him? He was so terrible! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by gawkimo: "(surely she meant Democratic, no?) " No, she meant Democrat. A few years ago the right-wing peanut gallery decided to use... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Palin Email Password-Guesser Indicted
The dumb kid who guessed Sarah Palin's Yahoo Email "security questions" and then posted her password on 4Chan has finally been indicted! David Kernell, 20, turned himself into federal authorities today. According to the indictment, Kernell "intentionally and without authorization accessed a protected computer by means of an interstate communication and thereby obtained information." This apparently comes with a maximum 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, should he be found guilty. We still think Yahoo should be indicted for having such dumb security questions. Also: "interstate communication"! Devious! [KnoxNews]
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By PareeneComment by Hardrock Johnson: I wonder if you guys would be so flippant if someone broke into Obama's personal email and posted his messages... 12 Responses | Other threads
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Here's The Sarah Palin Email 'Hacker'
This is University of Tennessee student David Kernell, the Democratic state senator's son who reportedly accessed Sarah Palin's email account by guessing the answers to her "security questions." This is what qualifies as hacking in 2008, and the family lawyer is saying "this is a difficult time" instead of denying anything, so Kernell will go to prison forever as soon as the Grand Jury indicts him, which has not yet happened. Ha ha, Democratic politicians have immoral families, unlike small-town Republicans like vice presidential nominee Palin. (Photo via Wired)
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By Ryan TateComment by Pinekatz: He needs to fire that lawyer and hire 4 better ones. Then use those skills (oh, wait, he did what every... 45 Responses | Other threads
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Mike & Juliet Set Us Free
So we're still getting threatening emails regarding the Sarah Palin Emailgate, wishing us well in prison and advising us to not "drop the soap." So it comes as a relief that, this morning, we finally got the best and last word in legal counsel, guaranteeing our freedom: a sassy TV judge on the Mike & Juliet show. She says we're fine and Geraldo Rivera even agrees with her! So that's a relief. Plus, it was just funny to see Mike say "hack hack hack" over and over again with nary a mirror in sight. Clip is above.
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Comment by Aaron Altman: OMG if they had just scrolled down a little bit more they would've totally made some of us commenters famous!... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Gawker Should Be Imprisoned Forever, Says Everyone Except Lawyers
By email, by telephone and by cable television comes a consistent message for Gawker: We should all be woken in the middle of the night, hauled off to jail, and locked away maybe forever for publishing some of Sarah Palin's emails, including her daughter Bristol's phone number and husband's previously-known email address. Some people would also like us shot, because God only knows the terrible things that can be done to someone with email addresses and phone numbers. Bizarrely, the only person who disagreed with our legal culpability was a Scientologist, because despite the many negative things we've written about that "church" the law is apparently clear: "Gawker's fine," Fox News's Greta Van Susteren said. Click the video icon to watch the TV coverage; some emails and a voice mail we "liberal Jews" received is after the jump. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by lawyergay: For those of you expressing some distaste for what Gawker did by publishing Sarah Palin's emails, etc., we're talking about... 19 Responses | Other threads
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AP Rebuffs Hapless Secret Service On Palin
The Associated Press reports it was contacted by the Secret Service yesterday and "asked for copies of the leaked [Sarah Palin] e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply." Wait, why is the Secret Service asking AP for the emails? Do they not know how to use Google? The emails are here, guys, or you can see if wikileaks is back up or try the ones on the Huffington Post. Now please, leave the poor wretches at AP alone so they can resume encouraging you to Keep Up The Fight and crafting ridiculous accordion metaphors. [AP]
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By Ryan TateComment by Weegee's bored: Wait. The Secret Service can't do screen grabs? Wait until the reign of McCain, who doesn't know that a computer... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Why Did Palin Have A Shadowy Email Account, Again?
>The hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's email account has, of course, been roundly condemned for his actions, but he has for the moment succeeded in reviving the unanswered question of why the Alaska governor had two quasi-official email addresses, gov.palin@yahoo.com and gov.sarah@yahoo.com. So central were the private accounts to Palin's state office that her secretary admonished a government aide who accidentally used a government email address instead. This use of the accounts is a naked affront to public records laws in Alaska. But it's not exceptional: It's one battle in a 30-years war between conservatives and civil libertarians over government openness, during which the current presidential administration itself blurred the linese between public and private email. Is there any way to finally stop these hijinks? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by eyekantspel: This is the story. Not republishing someone's emails. Now, I can think of a few reasons for people to use... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Palin Hacker May Have Left Traces
The hacker who obtained Sarah Palin's personal email covered his tracks using proxy servers from CTunnel.com. Some of the screenshots he posted show Web address starting with CTunnel.com and ending with codes that could ultimately get him caught. That scenario seems particularly likely given that the webmaster behind the proxy servers is all but begging law-enforcement authorities to request his records, since he believes the Palin hacker abused his service. As quoted in the Register, the webmaster practically draws the Feds a map: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by OnceWasCool: Very sad that someone's personal account was hacked. This is a felony offense people, and now gawker is an accessory. 8 Responses | Other threads
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Palin Emails Real
Our post featuring emails obtained and posted to the internet by Anonymous has been updated with a statement from McCain-Palin 2008 Campaign Manager Rick Davis verifying the legitimacy of the emails. [Earlier]
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By PareeneComment by Steverino Begins: The whole thing seems like media bait. Her password magically becomes available? The campaign quickly confirms it's real, just in... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Palin Emails Reveal Press Hate
Earlier today, we brought you selections from the private email correspondence of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. A look at the contents reveals... well, not much. Whichever /b/tard first hacked into the account didn't actually seem to know what he was looking for and tossed the password into the public before anything that great was tracked down. But still! We can learn a bit from the emails thus far recovered. One, a cryptic, prayerful message from a friend Palin appointed to a nice government job. The other excerpt is maybe more enlightening: an exchange between Palin and her Lt. Governor, complaining at length about the indignities of having to defend their records to the media. Specifically, to one critical right-wing radio talk show host. If Palin can't handle that, it's no wonder she hides from the national press. Read on for the full emails. More »
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By PareeneComment by lovelyivy: I despise this woman like any good liberal, but this is just wrong. An makes her sympathetic. I mean, if she... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Bristol Palin's Voicemail
Among the messages in Sarah Palin's hacked Yahoo email account is a photo sent earlier this week from a cellphone. The subject line: "LOOK AT TRIG!!!!!" (In case you weren't watching the Down Syndrome baby being passed around at the Republican Convention, Trig is the name of Sarah Palin's youngest child.) We called up the Alaskan cellphone number from which the message was supposedly sent. Click the thumb to listen to the voicemail.
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By Nick DentonComment by cocoesq: You should be ashamed of yourself, Gawker. The Obama kids were miked and on stage at the DNC, but if... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Sarah Palin's Personal Emails
Did the internet just cause Sarah Palin to destroy evidence? The potential Veep is in a bit of trouble for conducting state business using her personal, unarchived email address (gov.sarah@yahoo.com) instead of her official account (which is, of course, subject to laws requiring the retention of government records). Emails from that Yahoo account are already being sought in connection with the Troopergate investigation. Now comes word that Anonymous, the fun-loving Internet trouble-makers based loosely around the message board 4Chan, gained access to another Palin email account: gov.palin@yahoo.com. It looks legit! The offending posts, screenshots, heretofore unseen family photos, and emails have all been deleted from Imageshack and 4Chan. But we have them. You want to read Sarah Palin's email?
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