[Vision2020] Hacker Tricks Yahoo, Gets Access to Palin's e-mails

[lfalen]

Right on
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From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:37:50 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Hacker Tricks Yahoo, Gets Access to Palin's e-mails

> In my opinion, this hacker should be prosecuted to maximum extent of the 
> law.  If this hacker is not made an example of (since these exploits have 
> been published nationally), hacking into people's private emails will be 
> looked at as nothing more than a prank.  BULL SH*T!
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> >From The Tennesseean at:
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> http://tinyurl.com/443a3p
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> Hacker tricks Yahoo, gets access to Palin's e-mails
> 
> Tenn. rep says blogs point finger at his son
> 
> By TED BRIDIS
> Associated Press 
> 
> WASHINGTON — Details emerged Thursday behind the break-in of Republican 
> vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account, including a 
> first-hand account suggesting it was vulnerable because a hacker was able 
> to impersonate her online to obtain access to the account.
> 
> The hacker guessed that Alaska's governor had met her husband in high 
> school, and knew Palin's date of birth and home ZIP code. Using those 
> details, the hacker tricked Yahoo Inc.'s service into assigning a new 
> password, "popcorn," for Palin's e-mail account, according to a chronology 
> of the crime published on the Web site where the hacking was first 
> revealed.
> 
> The FBI and Secret Service launched a formal investigation Wednesday. 
> Yahoo declined to comment Thursday on details of the investigation, citing 
> Palin's privacy and the sensitivity of such investigations.
> 
> The story took an unexpected turn Thursday, when Rep. Mike Kernell, a 
> Memphis Democrat, confirmed that his son, a student at the University of 
> Tennessee, was the person who was the subject of speculation on blogs on 
> the subject.
> 
> David Kernell is a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Mike 
> Kernell said he spoke to his son on Thursday, as he does on a regular 
> basis.
> 
> Kernell said he had no knowledge of an investigation or whether 
> authorities contacted his son, though he said he had not personally been 
> contacted by investigators.
> 
> Kernell otherwise declined to comment, or discuss his son's whereabouts. 
> Kernell's son did not respond to an e-mail request for comment.
> 
> Action started as a prank
> 
> The person who claimed responsibility for the break-in did not respond 
> Thursday to an e-mail inquiry from The Associated Press.
> 
> "i am the lurker who did it, and i would like to tell the story," the 
> person wrote in the account on the Web site where the hacking was first 
> revealed. What started as a prank was cut short because of panic over the 
> possibility the FBI might investigate, the hacker wrote.
> 
> Investigators were waiting to speak with Gabriel Ramuglia of Athens, Ga., 
> who operates an Internet anonymity service used by the hacker. Ramuglia 
> said Thursday that he was reviewing his own logs and promised to turn over 
> any helpful information to authorities because the hacker violated rules 
> against using the anonymity service for illegal activities.
> 
> "If you're doing something illegal and causing me issues by doing this, 
> I'm willing to cooperate," Ramuglia said. "Obviously this is the most high 
> profile situation I've dealt with."
> 
> The break-in of Palin's private account is especially significant because 
> Palin sometimes uses nongovernment e-mail to conduct state business. 
> Previously disclosed e-mails indicate her administration embraced Yahoo 
> accounts as an alternative to government e-mail, which could possibly be 
> released under Alaska's Open Records Act.
> 
> At the time, critics of Palin's administration were poring over official e-
> mails they had obtained from the governor's office looking for evidence of 
> improper political activity.
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> Seeya at Farmers' Market, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>  
> "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
> students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."
> 
> - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
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