Sarah Palin's yahoo hacked by anon

[shosh]

not sure how true but they have screenshots

http://gawker.com/5051193/sarah-palins-personal-email-account-hacked

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/group-posts-e-m.html

[Huggie Smiles]

Re: Sarah Palin's yahoo hacked by anon

or someone from scientology claiming to be anonymous???

[shosh]

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my friend who's a /b/ lurker told me the other day that they wanted to find her acct and hack it. i guess it was heavily discussed on 4chan

[Huggie Smiles]

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hopefully the stories will now read hacked by 4chan or hacked by b/tards then!

[shosh]

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it's been confirmed by her campaign on all major news sources and apparently fbi and ss are now involved...

i wonder what other docs they have now. it would be funny if theyre sitting on something really juicy

[toasty]

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You might be surprised to hear this, but I actually find this really despicable. I suppose if they happen to uncover something shady, we ought to know about it just under a "plain view doctrine" analogy, but people should not be digging into candidates' personal email accounts for really any reason. I know candidates really shouldn't have any sort of realistic expectation of privacy, but this is a little silly.

[88Mariner]

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well at least we know she uses the internet now. i guess that's good.

[shosh]

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by juicy i meant titty pics for thesightless

[FM]

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well at least we know she uses the internet now. i guess that's good.

unlike her running mate who barely knows anything about the Internet

[88Mariner]

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well since they found her password, might as well wonder what was in her e-mail account. probably no point of breaking into a car unless you're gonna take something out and use it.

[shosh]

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well since they found her password, might as well wonder what was in her e-mail account. probably no point of breaking into a car unless you're gonna take something out and use it.

i doubt they found her password. they probably just used yahoo's pass retrieval system to reset it and get into the acct

[DIDI]

Re: Sarah Palin's yahoo hacked by anon

You might be surprised to hear this, but I actually find this really despicable. I suppose if they happen to uncover something shady, we ought to know about it just under a "plain view doctrine" analogy, but people should not be digging into candidates' personal email accounts for really any reason. I know candidates really shouldn't have any sort of realistic expectation of privacy, but this is a little silly.

Not surprised and I agree with you !!

But I'm still going to read on

[Localizer]

Re: Sarah Palin's yahoo hacked by anon

You might be surprised to hear this, but I actually find this really despicable. I suppose if they happen to uncover something shady, we ought to know about it just under a "plain view doctrine" analogy, but people should not be digging into candidates' personal email accounts for really any reason. I know candidates really shouldn't have any sort of realistic expectation of privacy, but this is a little silly.

Ya that sucks, but that's what happens when you use a private email address for public communication. Public figures are supposed to be transparent. What she's done is basically blocked herself from investigative journalists who want to use the FOIA to obtain records should a predicament arise.

[shosh]

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heres a decent explanation what happened together with the presumed hacker's account

There are several misconceptions and errors in most accounts of this story, including your post. Most significantly, the perpetrator(s) were not members of an infamous group of hackers. I dont blame you for misunderstanding this, because in all the media coverage regarding the war with Scientology the media has completely failed to explain what Anonymous is.

Anonymous is not exactly a group. It is people using the umbrella of a web discussion board for cover to be as offensive, funny, strange, or whatever as they want.

Here?s the short version: there is a site called 4chan.org. It is an image posting site based on a popular Japanese site. The site contains multiple boards, each of which is dedicated to a particular subject. The most notorious of these boards is called /b/. /b/ is the board dedicated to random images. /b/tards, as its denizens are called, are interested only in their own amusement. Their sense of humor runs the gamut from sick to cruel to merely strange. Lolcats, as made famous by http://www.icanhascheezburger.com, originated on /b/. A lot of memes start there. There is a lot of racist humor, pictures of excited and happy black people in proximity to fried chicken abound. There is a lot of pornography. Sometimes it's child pornography, although posting that is moderator grounds for banning (no, it's not a pedophile ring; /b/tards post it because they think doing so is funny).

4chan does not log participants. Most people dont use or have usernames, and post instead as Anonymous. And every so often, a number of /b/'s anonymous denizens decide to make somebody's life hell. Sometimes it's a random person who offends /b/'s sense of propriety. Sometimes it's a forum dedicated to a serious topic. Sometimes it's Scientology. And Tuesday, it was Sarah Palin. Or it would have been.

Sarah Palin's email account was hacked by one person. Not a group.

This person read her emails, then posted the username and password on /b/. This happened at about 4 in the morning on Tuesday. The idea was that the sea of Anonymous /b/tards would download the emails, upload porn, and cause all manner of mischief. Anonymous is not a group of hackers. Anonymous is more like gremlins. They are hyperactive adolescents in search of amusement and joy, which they often get by upsetting people and making messes. That's what was happening here. Anonymous did not hack the account. A hacker tried to throw Sarah Palin to Anonymous. Not all of Anonymous was having it. One person threw a crowbar in the works. Other /b/tards were displeased to miss a chance at the lulz. The moderators stepped in. The thread was deleted.

Later, other individuals created threads reposting screencaps of emails and the inbox, and put together a collection of these files. All mentions of these were purged by the moderators. So then some bright /b/tards decided to email what little stuff they had to the media.

That's pretty much it.

This afternoon, in a thread that was later deleted, an individual claiming to be the original poster gave his account of what happened. I've attached screencaps. Here's the text. The original poster used the name 'rubico. The linked email address for the poster was rubico10@yahoo.com.

This is what rubico said:

rubico 09/17/08(Wed)12:57:22 No.85782652

Hello, /b/ as many of you might already know, last night sarah palins yahoo was hacked and caps were posted on /b/, i am the lurker who did it, and i would like to tell the story.

In the past couple days news had come to light about palin using a yahoo mail account, it was in news stories and such, a thread was started full of newfags trying to do something that would not get this off the ground, for the next 2 hours the acct was locked from password recovery presumably from all this bullshit spamming.

after the password recovery was reenabled, it took seriously 45 mins on wikipedia and google to find the info, Birthday; 15 seconds on wikipedia, zip code? well she had always been from wasilla, and it only has 2 zip codes (thanks online postal service!)

the second was somewhat harder, the question was 'where did you meet your spouse?' did some research, and apparently she had eloped with mister palin after college, if youll look on some of the screenshits that I took and other fellow anon have so graciously put on photobucket you will see the google search for 'palin eloped' or some such in one of the tabs.

I found out later though more research that they met at high school, so I did variations of that, high, high school, eventually hit on 'Wasilla high' I promptly changed the password to popcorn and took a cold shower

>> rubico 09/17/08(Wed)12:58:04 No.85782727

this is all verifiable if some anal /b/tard wants to think Im a troll, and there isnt any hard proof to the contrary, but anyone who had followed the thread from the beginning to the 404 will know I probably am not, the picture I posted this topic with is the same one as the original thread.

I read though the emails ALL OF THEM before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor. And pictures of her family

I then started a topic on /b/, peeps asked for pics or gtfo and I obliged, then it started to get big

Earlier it was just some prank to me, I really wanted to get something incriminating which I was sure there would be, just like all of you anon out there that you think there was some missed opportunity of glory, well there WAS NOTHING, I read everything, every little blackberry confirmation, all the pictures, and there was nothing, and it finally set in, THIS internet was serious business, yes I was behind a proxy, only one, if this shit ever got to the FBI I was fucked, I panicked, i still wanted the stuff out there but I didnt know how to rapidshit all that stuff, so I posted the pass on /b/, and then promptly deleted everything, and unplugged my internet and just sat there in a comatose state

Then the white knight fucker came along, and did it in for everyone, I trusted /b/ with that email password, I had gotten done what I could do well, then passed the torch , all to be let down by the douchebaggery, good job /b/, this is why we cant have nice things

The white knight fucker was the /b/tard who thought that going through Sarah Palins email wasnt cool. He logged in, changed the password, and sent an email to a friend of Palins warning her and letting her know the new password. Unfortunately, he then posted a screenshot of this email to let the other /b/tards know their fun was over. He failed to blank the password, and they all tried to log in and change the password which tripped the automated Yahoo! freeze. Since then, the account has been deleted.

Rapidshit refers to rapidshare.com i.e., rubico wanted to download the emails, put them into one file, and put that file up on rapidshare for /b/tards and the world at large to download. But he panicked, or didnt know how to download the emails, and so pawned that task off on Anonymous, which he didnt realize wasnt monolithic and in his favor.

[i!!ustrious]

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well said clarification. thx.