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A little disappointed in 4chan

That no one used her account to send some questionable e-mails... oh the lulz that could have been.




- Very recently an anonymous poster on /b/ claimed to have hacked Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account.

- Sarah Palin used the e-mail address gov.sarah@yahoo.com for public communication. Several media outlets have confirmed this fact prior to this "incident".

SOURCE: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/10/palin-email-privilege/
SOURCE: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/15-7

- The e-mail address that the poster hacked was gov.palin@yahoo.com. This second e-mail address, previously unknown publicly, was used for private communications.

- Yahoo e-mail addresses, unlike .gov e-mail addresses, are not subject to archiving and oversight. This fact has led to controversy from several sources, including fellow Republicans, asking her to release e-mails from her Yahoo account.

- The anonymous poster apparently panicked, and released the password onto /b/.

- Several other posters on /b/ took screenshots of the Inbox and various e-mails.

- Some of the screenshots reference several people in Alaska state government. One of these people is Sean Parnell, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. Parnell mentions KFQD Radio's Dan Fagan, to whom he gave an interview about Palin's ACES initiative. Lt. Gov. Parnell's e-mail address is verified via an Alaska Republican Central Committee contact listing.

SOURCE: http://gov.state.ak.us/aces/
SOURCE: http://www.alaskarepublicans.com/centralcommittee.aspx

- One of the screenshots references the Yahoo account fek9wnr, Todd Palin, Sarah's husband who is at the heart of the controversy over her use of Yahoo e-mail for public dealings. The fek9wnr account was verified as being Todd Palin via a public posting to an automotive enthusiast BBS from August 2006. fek9wnr may refer to FEK-9 Kawasaki Brute Force 650 "winner".

SOURCE: http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/centurionconversions/message/2309

- Several photographs of her family were allegedly downloaded from the e-mail account.

- A scan of profiles.yahoo.com put gov.palin@yahoo.com's profile update date at 04/05/2008, long before any VP nod was apparent. If this were a fake, the perpetrator would've had to travel into the past and create an account or be very good at guessing who the VP candidate would be 5+ months later, not to mention faking an overwhelming amount of e-mails, photographs, verified private cellphone numbers, and other information.

- A good samaritan in the /b/ thread reset the password account with the intention of handing it over to Palin, a process known on /b/ as "white knighting". This locked everyone else out of the account. The "white knight" posted a screenshot to /b/ of his pending message to one of Palin's contacts about how to recover the account, but made the critical mistake of not blanking out the new password he set.

- Several other people in the /b/ thread then apparently logged in using this new password, and they all attempted to reset the password at once, causing a security trap at Yahoo to automatically put a 24-hour lockout on the account.


- Sarah Palin was likely notified of the breach by morning, as she had then deleted both the gov.sarah@yahoo.com address (the one subject to the disclosure controversy in the media) as well as the gov.palin@yahoo.com address (the one that was hacked).

- The outright deletion of the accounts can be verified by attempting to pull up the public profile on both addresses, which both existed during the incident.

SOURCE: http://profiles.yahoo.com/gov.palin
SOURCE: http://profiles.yahoo.com/gov.sarah

- Both accounts were deleted simultaneously, thus linking the publicly-known e-mail address "gov.sarah" and the private e-mail address "gov.palin".

- This outright deletion may have the potential to be viewed as destruction of evidence, considering that the e-mails in the now-deleted accounts are the subject of several legal controversies.


- Several ZIP, RAR, and 7Z compilations of the downloaded screenshots, contacts, and photos were made available by anonymous individuals.

- 4chan is actively (some say over-actively) banning and deleting any posts of the screenshots of Palin's account, contacts, or family photos.

- An anonymous poster to 420chan, using information from the e-mail account's contact list, attempted to call Bristol Palin's cellphone number using the AT&T phone relay service. Several others allegedly called the cellphone number itself and got Bristol's voicemail. These posts were quickly deleted by 420chan moderators.

- A poster on /b/ did a lookup on the cellphone number which returned this information:

Type: Cell Phone
Provider: Dobson Cellular Systems
Location: Palmer, AK

- A poster in /r9k/ e-mailed the compilations to ABC News producer Eamon McNiff who he/she claims is a personal contact of his/hers.

- Someone submitted a summary to Digg. As of this writing it has only 12 diggs.

SOURCE: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/The_Incident_Did_4Chan_Anon_Hack_Palin_s_Yahoo_Email

- As of right now the media related to the incident sits mostly confined to 4chan and rapidshare, and thus either deleted, censored or under the radar.

Any official government business?

Anything that indicates Sarah Palin used her Yahoo account for doing official state business would be interesting information for the public.

The traitors in government

Since government officials decided to violate the privacy of US citizen in violation of the constitution, it is just for the citizen to violate the privacy of government officials in return.

These are the same government officials who were elected by the people and supposedly for the people, the very same who swore to obey and protect the US constitution but betrayed their country.

Clearly Sarah Palin is not different and could be called Sarah Obama.

They can not win at this game because citizen has nothing to hide while they do.

By the way I am pretending to be a conservative and as such I am demanding that every one obey the law, including government officials.

I believe that we should have a national discussion about the issue of corrupted officials and what can be done about this before these people end up destroying our country.

Privacy & Sarah's lies

There should be discretion regarding sensitive personal contact information. Do not post the cell phone numbers of Republican Party Vice President running mate Mrs. Palin's family. This constitutes harassment in causing emotional distress and might lead to charges according to specific state and federal laws on the book. (at least within the jurisdiction of the U.S.)

I doubt Sarah Palin's sincerity when she claims to be pregnant upon announcement earlier this year. Even her staff was surprised [1] because they never noticed naturally occurring physical change compared to her past four 'confirmed' pregnancies. The last biological child to Sarah and Todd was born 2001.

DailyKos banished the two well-researched diaries "Sarah Palin is NOT The Mother (Photos and Videos)"[2] and "BabyGate: Explosive New Details"[3] written by ArcXIX. I hope somebody PDF'd the original posts now that the posts are memory-holed by DK administration. We notice Bristol cradles Trig in almost every photo of them together, while a few examples of Sarah holding Trig shows she's not "motherly" enough (i.e. Trig clumsily handled while holding a cell phone) in body language.

The birth certificate record is the sole proof to identify who is the true parent of Trig Paxon Van Palin.

If Bristol is Trig's mother (despite claim of Bristol's pregnancy for "5 months"), Sarah's lies is exposed and it will be "Shit hits the fan" for John McCain campaign, which itself engages in smears, lies and exaggerations towards Obama/Biden campaign. (full disclosure: I no longer support Obama, I'm voting Nader) -- Cyberdogg 18:29, 17 September 2008 (GMT)

A whole lot about nothing!

The continuing spread of dis-information!

This post is crap. 20:12, 17 September 2008 (GMT)

^agreed; this is the ranting of a lunatic.

Like Tasergate, Palin will only benefit from further scrutiny on this matter.

Right or wrong, most people will assume that the leaked emails are representative of everything in the account. Nothing leaked seems to hint at anything improper, so it will now be difficult to convince the public (at least those who aren't already against her) that she had committed any serious offense in using the Yahoo! email service. Furthermore, most people will accept the notion (assuming she raises it) that she had to delete the email accounts immediately to prevent any continued or expanded harassment of her family and friends.

McCain Finegold please read about it. Government oversight and transparency. She is discussing government appointees and by doing so circumvent oversight. It is a breach of privacy and it was a crime that was committed yet the fact is public now. oversight and transparency will be thrown out now and this will make a stronger case for FISA trampling the right of Americans!

change the date

you have it as wednesday september 16th...it is the 17th

Obama's e-mail

How come nobody's hacked Obama's private e-mail address? This is partisan crap. 20:14, 17 September 2008 (GMT)

I'm sure someone would have done if Obama was unprofessional enough to conduct government business through his personal e-mail account. The person who hacked Palins account was an opportunist, the opportunity was there and it was taken for the exact reason of the stink it'd kick up. While Palins politics aren't exactly popular online I doubt the opportunity to view a slice of Obamas secret professional and private life in the same way would be missed out on either.

But then you've convinced yourself this this an organised attack on poor Palin by the evil democratic left, right? And I am a stupid ass jerk, just wanting a minute of fame.

This is ALL fake!!!

I believe this whole hacking thing is a fake.

Just another attempt to get something in the media that might put a question mark in peoples minds about Gov. Palin. Although, this is really nothing anyway.

A couple of things to note regarding the screenshots "Fakeness"...First, it's interesting that the screens are all scrolled down just enough so we can't see the top of the window, where some actual identifing info would be. This doesn't even look like a real current Yahoo mail screen anyway. Second, the top two entries of the Inbox have a Date field with just a time! Look at what is usually there, the day and date, not the time!

Come on...it's a bad fake at that!

  • Sorry guy, that's one of the two Yahoo mail looks (the "classic" one) and the time is shown in the date field, with no date, for messages received that day.
  • Perhaps Karl Rove's team is at the bottom of this...

wake up and smell the lulz this is real i was on 4chan when this happened i saw the screen shots that was posted for that therad other people took screen shots but when they heard the news then they deleted them, i know this because people told me on 4chan what they did but covered there tracks. ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu---

This line is unsubstantiated and should be deleted from this wiki entry:


"Palin, as a supporter of bulk, warrantless wiretapping of email, perhaps has no grounds for complaint."

I would challenge whoever wrote this to cite verifiable source location of exactly where Sarah Palin has gone on record supporting "bulk, warrantless wiretapping of email."

Until they can cite those sources, this line has no place in a wiki and it lowers this wiki's reputation with the public.

release the emails with the DPS subject!

Please release the emails with the DPS subject - they are of no importance in pushing to have this investigation done and completed - even if of in no political signficance, they would be able to let us in on the conversations they were having regarding the convention matter!

Who Cares?

The only people that want to attack her, or anyone in this situation, are the ones that do not have anything better to do. I support Palin, but it would make no difference if it was Obama. The people that stoop this low are the ones that feel she is a strong enough candidate to win. Let the people decide.

Just because this is the first time in history that we have two minorities in the campaign, is no reason to rip them apart. I think it is a great race. How would the people that want to expose every little tidbit, like to be exposed themselves as to when they ate and went to the bathroom. (above was posted Sept 17th, 2008 by IP#

Whoever you are, you must really hate such things as truth, honesty, and accountability. In order to make a WISE CHOICE as to who should be our next President/Vice President, we need to know as much about them as possible. To do less is to have yet another crazy bastard in the white house - and do you REALLY think this country will survive 4 more years of power-tripping maniacs doing whatever they feel like?

And the NEXT TIME you make a post, at least have the courage to SIGN IT (to sign a post, you type 4 "~"'s - the key to the left of the number 1) 23:14, 18 September 2008 (GMT)

The symbol is called a 'Tilde.' "tilde." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 20 Sep. 2008. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tilde>. Additionally, She has broken the law while being the top official of a state. Not jaywalking or smoking in a public place, she violated a law meant to; curb governmental abuse, provide a paper trail for any subsequent investigations (like now), and offer we the people a window into the workings of our government, one that is getting smaller each second. To brush aside a violation of this magnitude is tantamount to complicity in the act. We, as a nation, must hold our leaders to account for all illegal activities, e.g. Invasion and occupation of a soveriegn nation against domestic and international law. Remember, simply because Congress created and passed a law, in no way means that said law is constitutional or legal. There have been thousands of laws passed by Congress and signed into law by the President (or published in the Federal Register without ever making the news. ed.) that are anything but legal and constitutional. If this were the case we would need no Supreme court. Signed, One who sees true evil in party loyalty above all else. link title

The public, the prosecutors and investigators need to know...

The majority of the senders are on the payroll of the State of Alaska.

All of the emails from employees of Palin / the State of Alaska should be released.

I'm particularly interested in the two emails from Frank Bailey, Palin's aide who is currently suspended in relation to "Troopergate," from 09/05/08.

I examined the senders / subjects from the index of the emails and put together a little background information on those involved.

It's at the bottom of the page, at www.SarahPalinISNTHillaryClinton.com

Private material should be removed immediately

Any legitimate reasons for hacking this account are limited to Governor Palin's public role, and alleged efforts to avoid scrutiny of her public actions. I'm no Palin supporter, to put it mildly, but any purely personal content (emails, family photos, etc.) should be removed immediately from the site. - Aaron Levitt

Stupid Human Tricks

This was really a moronic stunt. If, indeed, this was real, she can now make a number of claims that she could not have made before the account was hacked. Somebody did Governor Twinkie a big favor.

Way to open

The yahoo hack is well known and her mail address was published by the Media. That she managed to make it public is one thing, another thing is to put CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION on a patently insecure mail account. No, hospitals don't do that either.

That said, this was a prank done by kids. She has been trolled. Perhaps that should be in the article. She was TROLLED by an internet forum. It is childish, and it seems no good info except proofs that there was indeed confidential material on her private mail account (which may not be legal) and perhaps somebody can tell if any of the mails may be not covered by the "Deliberate Process" exception clause?

And on the "confidential" ethics case, this news item discusses she has accessed confidential private information. Has she shared this with her aides?

Who cares about subject lines? Where are the ACTUAL emails?

This is not the work of anonymous. Anonymous, or any real hacker, would not have just posted pictures of the subject lines of the mailbox. They wouldn't have just posted silly pictures of family. They would have posted the text of EVERY message.

Until there is real proof, this should be taken with a grain of salt as an attempt to derail the Troopergate investigation.

McCain Campaign Response

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis issued the following statement concerning reports about Gov. Palin's e-mail: "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 emails will destroy them. We will have no further comment."

This also bares some resemblance to the Rove stunt when he bugged his own office and blamed it on his opponent at the time... Just a thought.

What I Know

Is that this was a non-partisan attack, the emails contain nothing that would be considered improper. Hacking into anyone's personal emails is a Federal Crime, and so is it also a crime for government officials to have such accounts as it thwarts the ability to have full disclosure and transparency in government. Considering how the Republican Party is always up to no good with their blatant lies and tricks, this is yet another example of their hypocrisy.

Wikileaks alleges only to post information that is vital for the public to know about some kind of corruption. Posting Palin's personal photos of her kids, private email accounts of private citizens, proves that Wikileaks is true to their intentions.

While Wiki leaks thinks its above the law, in posting information that was received from a hacker, - it isn't. And those laws were put in place by liberals, and apply to most European Countries, as well as the US & Canada.

Gawker, the hacker, Wiki, and anyone else who posted this information is subject to prosecution. Lets not forget that a news reporter hacked into his associates email account and now sits in jail for five years.

The penalities are higher for any criminal act visited upon ANY Secret Service protected candidate.

Look for more lies from McLiar/PaLiar to emerge early next week. The more nasty and vicious lies spewed by the McLiar campaign, the more the election swings in Obama's favor.

Ok, you want the penalties to be enforced. And you expect that to actually happen. America's got to get over its obsession with itself - who said the hacker is American? Most of the rest of the developed world is following the election at least as closely as the average American citizen.
Also, if you'd taken the time to do a bit of research, you'd know the hacker was, in all probability, a supporter of Palin. That he released the password on a popular website indicates that he did not personally wish to cause Palin harm - with access to the email account, so much more harm could have been done if the original hacker wanted to. Rather, he wanted recognition and to be newsworthy. In that regard, you must agree, he succeeded completely.


the people who broke into her email account are lame, and you are lame for posting it to your website.

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Image of Bristol

shows that the pic was taken using a Blackberry 8310 - an AT&T instrument.

This was illegal

It was an absolute invasion of privacy and no amount of justification can undo the profoundly unethical nature of this.

There is a difference between an insider leaking information and someone breaking in.

This smacks of Watergate. How can anyone be against the Patriot Act and look the other way on this.

The perpetrators of this violated all of us. Everyone should be wanting them brought to Justus.

Does Justus live in Rome?

Anonymous Is Not an "Internet Activist Group"

There is no identifiable group, and certainly not "hackers," that could be called Anonymous. It is a label used by some denizens of a particular subsection of 4chan.org and nothing more.

No. Anonymous is from ebaumsworld.com, get your facts straight.

The OP is right--anonymous is not an identifiable group in this case. Anonymous on 4chan is almost like anonymous here--simply meaning the person has hidden their identity or chosen not to identify themselves. Every source I can find points to this being a single person acting independently behind the attack. Can you prove otherwise?


Legal Questions

Various organizations are crying foul over this and now they are bringing in the FBI. Using the logic that she used the acount for state business makes this high profile, but in turn this is an admittance she was conducting illegal activity as she should not be using personal e-mail for these purposes. Either way, she should be prosecuted or they should drop it altogether, e-mail accounts get hacked all the time.

Why didn't Wikileaks sanitize the proxy server information in the address bar ?

Why didn't Wikileaks editorial team sanitize the proxy server information in the address bar in the screen shots of the web mail  ?

Have they failed to properly protect their anonymous source ?


By the time the screenshots were published on Wikileaks they had also already been published at http://s405.photobucket.com/albums/pp134/anoncrack/ which by now has been deleted, most likely on request of authorities. We unfortunately had no chance to mitigate this glitch by the source that distributed the images. As has been experienced on other occasions in the past, this only proves how delicate the publication of material is and how much care it requires.
We are certainly addressing these topics correctly and will continue to do so, but can only encourage all possible contributors to take proper care to avoid such glitches. Most likely by contacting us directly.
It also proves not to trust some pseudo-anonymous service that will sell the user out to authorities the minute someone waves with a legal letter and even boasts itself with this. Wikileaks


Privacy - Privacitat

El més greu de tot es que càrrecs importants i amb responsabilitats no garanteixin la privacitat i protecció de les dades personals. Amb quina credibilitat es pot confiar que ho facin amb la resta de persones, i amb quina credibilitat podem possar el futur en les seves mans ? En aquest cas i sense entrar en la publicació dels continguts, que considerem es podia obviar, considerem que denunciar i col·laborar en evitar aquestes greus vulneracions de la privacitat, en aquest cas exercides per un alt càrrec, es una contibució positiva a la Societat de la Informació.

Casamanya, Erts, Sispony, Llorts, Bixesarri, Loria

File:234567.jpg== lie ==

its just a lie!

I don't buy it

There aren't a lot of things published here and, in fact, what is published would serve to paint Palin as a person of high principles. The style of writing between the parties is not very natural. It's like they were writing to each other with the knowledge that someone else would be reading it. I think they were staged. I would not be one bit surprised if these e-mail accounts were not hacked into at all and that "selected" e-mails were purposely "leaked" for publicity.

So what was the password?

Was it something like abc123?

jun093190 apparently, that was probably AFTER it was reset, as far as I know they used her Zip code, DoB and secret question to reset the password, most likely they found all the info the needed with a few quick google searches

More coming?

Wikileaks may release additional emails should they prove be of political substance. 

Does this mean wikileaks already has more emails? If so, why aren't they releasing them already?

Another low...

You publish stuff from folks personal email accounts?

Their private harmless letters? Their email address books? Personal family photos?

Don't kid yourselves you're doin' this for the public good.

I hope the Feds pull you into their investigation in a bad way.

You guys are lowlife scum.

Kevin, Hawaii

They aren't breaking any laws by publishing this information. They are reporting the news, and they are protected under U.S. law. Not only that, but they're not in the U.S. anyways, so the feds couldn't do anything about it anyways.

Also, who's lowlife scum? The people who report on something that happened, or a politician who appoints her highschool friends to high positions that they aren't qualified for, squanders taxpayer money and attempts to ban books from a library? She is the scumbag.

So there is no law preserving the privacy of personal documents and personal accounts? It's not the REPORTING of leaked data, is the actual LEAKING of the data that's a problem.
And about her status as a scumbag, who cares? Because she's a scumbag her personal e-mails can be released for all to see. Private photos of her children are public domain because we think she's a scumbag?

Sarah palin's E-mail account

I sincerely hope all responsible for this hack will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and I pray this site is shut down forever!

Yeah, you jackass Americans love freedom of speech until it's something you dont want to hear, then you're the first ones to silence others. Go die in a nuclear firestorm.

With leadership like we have had the last 7 plus years, and the crop we have to choose from, combined with an insatiable lust for ignorance and party loyalty, we probably will.

Can't wait until October

When all the cd's are open to the media the truth will be out then !!!!! :-)

What if this is a cover-up?

Suppose Palin or someone connected with her campaign requested so-called hackers to do this so she could delete those email accounts and have the contents forever lost to any type of investigation? Would anyone accuse her of destroying evidence? Remember she had to do it because of the hacking. A perfect cover-up? Just a thought on where to look for the 'anonymous' hackers.

Yahoo email end up on the Internet

Isn't this special? If the governor of Alaska can't rely on Yahoo to keep her personal email personal, can you?

Good job, Yahoo.

What about the Secret Service? Wouldn't you guess that as soon as Sarah Palin became a candidate for President of the United States, they would have included email in their preliminary security assessments? Apparently not.

Poor lady. She can't even have a family and a personal life. I wonder how long it will be before someone raids her lingerie collection to put on the Internet....

The Unknown Cynic

I guess security is one of the reasons why she was supposed to use official mail servers instead of unreliable public services like Yahoo. Its not like the US government uses Yahoo as their premier email provider, but quite in opposite she was not supposed to use freemail services for any official communication. It's her own fault and proves only how much this lady is not ready for any official position outside of a few dozen citizen village. Complete lack of responsibility if you ask me, and good that it got exposed.
Your comment only indicates that you neither have thought much about your comment nor know much about email services on the internet.

hacker probably worked for palin

Wow, what a lucky break for Ms. Palin. Just when "Troopergate" investigators had discovered that Gov. Palin had been using private email accounts to ensure she wouldn't be audited or subpoenaed when doing something questionable or illegal, just when they were seeking a warrant for access to these accounts. Then since the accounts were "compromised", they had to be deleted ... nowhere near as suspicious, incriminating (or possibly illegal) as just shutting them down yourself.



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She is too stupid to run the country

What kind of idiot uses Yahoo mail for confidential state business? This is not an invasion of her privacy because anyone who uses Yahoo Mail or Google Mail or the like should already know that there cannot be an expectation of privacy on those accounts. Anybody that signs up for a yahoo account or a Google account must know that those accounts are easily hacked. How can anyone possibly not know that? The default position, when you first sign up, sends you a little pop-up (for the terminally stupid) that tells you that the information you send over the internet is likely to be seen by anyone.

I certainly hope that somebody got copies of all those emails before the accounts got deleted. Even if it turns out that they cannot be used in a court of law, for whatever reason, they should at least provide some loss of credibility for her.

I also hope that someone posts a link to where the more nosy amongst us can go read them. ;-)

Whatever you record can be virtuously "leaked."

Look, shouldn't you guys start a parallel site called WikiThefts.org?

This was not a leak. It was a theft.

By the principle of this being called a leak, anything you or anyone else has ever committed to any kind of record--a journal, your mail, your email, your photo album, your recorded thoughts to yourself--can be stolen and published, and then the thief can defend what he's done as a "leak."

A tactic perfected by Karl Rove and used to the max by the current bobbleheads in the whitehouse.

wanna more about ugly politicians



\doesn't anyone find it convenient that the email accounts containing emails potentially vital to a government investigation of Sarah Palin were deleted by mysterious anonymous hackers who strenuously asserted that nothing incriminating was to be found? And then the attack blamed on the son of a Democratic Representative?

Don't believe the hype!

Don't go for the Okie Dope, there's much less to this than meets the eye. Take a close look at the things exposed, nothing really. In fact if I had to have my email cracked and was a politician, this is what I would love for it to look like.

Americans (esp. party-blinded ones)are so stupid and so easily herded about, like lambs headed for the slaughter.


You totally get what's actually happening. It is obvious it is not her real email account. I mean a governor using a free YAHOO! account instead of her own office's secure and safe email server? Even I, a mere mortal, have my own domain name and server for email instead of the crappy YAHOO! or hotmail services (free or paid).
Oh, and how does having your own domain name and mail server make you any safer ? There is with no doubt more security awareness among Yahoo! engineers than in just yourself. Yahoo! services are as secure as its users make it. She made the mistake of using the stupid security question, she created the vulnerability, not Yahoo! You feel safer, but you're just not hacked because no-one wants to that's it. You must be a mere mortal of low value.
People, let me spell it out for you: I-T I-S A L-I-E


Hacked Emails

This is much to do about nothing. I find it interesting that Gov Palin is being raked over the coals as it were about this. About what? This is much to do about NOTHING!

Some have even suggested that she or someone working for her did this. This is so absurd it is laughable! If she had any incriminating evidence in her yahoo email account why hire a hacker? Just delete the emails!!!  ????

There is nothing illegal or wrong with any elected official having a non-offical email account to communicate with their friends and family. If some of these friends are co-workers or subordinates it is not illegal to talk to them using this medium. Was there was any state confidential information shared over this? From what I can tell, NO! Then what is the problem?

I find it interesting that those who complain about her supposed breach in confidentiality are the same one who are lauding the people who commited the ultimate breach in confidentiality. How can you celeberate or commend the people who hacked into Gov Palin's PRIVATE email? They didn't just invade her privacy, they also put it out in the public for all to see. This is despicable behavior!

I hope the people who did this whoever they are get prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This is a violation of international laws as well as US laws!

Warren in Mansfield MA

Palin's Emails as posted

The emails available for viewing do not discuss any governement businsee and are not subject to public view.

Elected officials are allowed to have private conversations.

There may be others, but these exonerate Governor Palin.

There should be no anonymous anywhere on the internet, especially on the WHOIS database. evidently has some inside track to getting an anonymous IP#??? Why don't you slimy people sign your works? What you are doing is illegal and I hope it backfires. I hope someone in Congress initiates a law making it illegal to have any anonymous IP#, website, blog, etc. Our Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates do not deserve being illegally attacked. Those hacked e-mails proved nothing, otherwide why don't you post the illegal e-mails you accuse VP nominee/Gov Palin of sending using her private e-mail account to hide whatever it is you say she is hiding? Why are you picking on Bristol Palin, a teenager who by the way is not running for office. Don't you know what happened to the people who recorded Gingrich's cell phone conversation once upon a time? Don't you know the law? You publish a private phone number? Why are you anonymous? Do you think you are above the law? Do you think you can commit a crime to expose a crime--like killing someone you judge as being guilty of murder. I think the only person who is getting away with it is the character in the Dexter TV show (which I only watched for about 15 minutes and was thoroughly disgusted). Who makes you the accuser, judge and executioner? And so in keeping with your anonymous cloak I sign myself - WHAT ELSE? ANONYMOUS TOO

This is obviously faked. Why would the account information that is at the top of all yahoo pages be just out of the window view in the screen shots. If these were real the hackers would have shown this intentionally to prove their trophy. . . I am disappointed that this is just another piece of trash floating along the sea of the internet. RULES OF THE INTERNET FOLLOW THEM 1. Do not talk about /b/ 2. Do NOT talk about /b/ 3. We are Anonymous. 4. Anonymous is legion. 5. Anonymous does not forgive, Anonymous does not forget. 6. Anonymous can be horrible, senseless, uncaring monster. 7. Anonymous is still able to deliver. 8. There are no real rules about posting. 9. There are no real rules about moderation either — enjoy your ban. 10. If you enjoy any rival sites — DON'T. 11. You must have pictures to prove your statement. 12. Lurk moar — it's never enough. 13. Nothing is Sacred. 14. Do not argue with a troll — it means that they win. 15. The more beautiful and pure a thing is, the more satisfying it is to corrupt it. 16. There are NO girls on the internet. 17. A cat is fine too. 18. One cat leads to another. 19. The more you hate it, the stronger it gets. 20. It is delicious cake. You must eat it. 21. It is delicious trap. You must hit it. 22. /b/ sucks today. 23. Cock goes in here. 24. You will never have sex. 25. ???? 26. PROFIT! 27. It needs more Desu. No exceptions. 28. There will always be more fucked up shit than what you just saw. 29. You can not divide by zero (just because the calculator says so). 30. No real limits of any kind apply here — not even the sky 31. CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL. 32. EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU STILL HAVE TO STEER. 33. Desu isn't funny. Seriously guys. It's worse than Chuck Norris jokes. 34. There is porn of it. No exceptions. 35. If no porn is found of it, it will be created. 36. No matter what it is, it is somebody's fetish. No exceptions. 37. Even one positive comment about Japanese things can make you a weeaboo. 38. When one sees a lion, one must get into the car 39. There is furry porn of it. No exceptions. 40. The pool is always closed due to AIDS (and stingrays, which also have AIDS). 41. If there isn't enough just ask for Moar. 42. Everything has been cracked and pirated. 43. DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS 44. The internet is not your personal army. 45. Rule 45 is a lie. 46. The cake is a lie. 47. If you post it, they will cum. 48. It will always need moar sauce. 49. The internet makes you stupid. 50. Anything can be a meme. 51. Longcat is looooooooooong. 52. If something goes wrong, Ebaums did it. 53. Anonymous is a virgin by default. 54. Moot has cat ears, even in real life. No exceptions. 55. CP is awwwright, but DSFARGEG will get you b&. 56. Don't mess with football. 57. MrSpooky has never seen so many ingrates. 58. Anonymous does not "buy", he downloads. 59. The term "sage" does not refer to the spice. 60. If you say Candlejack, you w 61. You cannot divide by zero. 62. The internet is SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS. 63. If you do not believe it, then it must be habeebed for great justice. 64. Not even Spider-Man knows how to shot web. 65. Mitchell Henderson was an hero to us all. 66. This is not lupus, it's SPARTAAAAAAAAAA. 67. One does not simply shoop da whoop into Mordor. 68. Katy is bi, so deal w/it. 69. LOL SIXTY NINE AMIRITE? 70. Also, cocks. 71. This is a showdown, a throwdown, hell no I can't slow down, it's gonna go. 72. Anonymous did NOT, under any circumstances, tk him 2da bar|? 73. If you express astonishment at someone's claim, it is most likely just a clever ruse. 74. If it hadn't been for Cotton Eyed Joe, Anonymous would have been married a long time ago. 75. Around Snacks, CP is lax. 76. All numbers are at least 100 but always OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND. 77. Hal Turner definitely needs to gb2/hell/. 78. Mods are fucking fags. No exceptions. 79. All Caturday threads will be bombarded with Zippocat. No exceptions. 80. No matter how cute it is, it probably skullfucked your mother last night. 81. That's not mud. 82. Steve Irwin's death is really, really funny. 83. The Internet is SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS. 84. Rule 87 is true. 85. Yes, it is some chickens. 86. Bobba bobba is bobba. 87. Rule 84 is false. OH SHI- 88. If your statement is preceded by "HAY GUYZ", then you are not doing it right. 89. If you cannot understand it, it is machine code. 90. Anonymous still owes Hal Turner one trillion U.S. dollars. 91. Spengbab Sqarpaint is luv Padtwick Zhstar iz fwend. 92. Disregard Bigmike, he sucks cocks. 93. Secure tripcodes are for jerks. 94. If someone herd u liek Mudkips, deny it constantly for the lulz. 95. Combo breakers are inevitable. If the combo is completed successfully, it is gay. 96. I am a huge faggot. Please rape my face. 97. Shit sucks and will never be stickied. 98. Bricks must are required to be shat whenever Anonymous is surprised. 99. If you have no bricks to shit, you are made of fail and AIDS. 100. ZOMG NONE

Sarah Palin email

This is a violation of privacy. Highly regarded as invasive.

ROFL. What a big to-do about nothing

Oh gee. Palin has multiple emails. Who doesn't? Oh gee. McCain doesn't like email much. Oh whatever will we do America? THESE ARE NON-ISSUES! DISTRACTIONS!

Be prudent in what you publish. Make sure there's an actual problem first.

When propaganda wins, we all lose.

Make your arguments for or against an issue based on facts not feelings. Be a part of the solution to stop slander and misinformation, don't perpetuate it.

Choose your issue. Choose your candidate. Then vote. Show up. Actually get out of bed and show up to vote.

Have you registered? The deadline rapidly approaches! Register. Vote. I don't care how you vote, just VOTE!

The message to send this political season is that we Americans are awake and we vote. Demand truth. Nail every lie.

hahahahahah. I cant Believe It...


It is Yahoo's practice to maintain accounts for four months even after you request a deletion

Surprise! Palin Hacker is a Dem!

Not just a democrat--but the son of a democrat! Mike Kernell, Tennessee state rep, is the father of the accused hacker, David Christopher Kernell. It is sad that one illegally hacks into a person's private email account and then posts personal messages on the internet and it become's a First Amendment right to break the law and divulge private correspondence??? This is sick, wrong and twisted, I pray justice is done and it is swift and to the full extent of the law--full punishment for the criminal(s). ORLY


I hope that "hacker" get's the full 5 years in prison and the full 250,000 dollar fine. He needs to be made an example of.

orly then

Sorry P.O.S!

Not only the original thief but the media and this site for hyping it, nd some of the readers for trying to justify the original crime.

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