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Skylace
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 Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: Student indicted for hacking Palin's email |
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faceless
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| he should be jailed for being a stupid arse! |
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seshme
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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So should she... 
A governor using a yahoo account for state business? |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| faceless wrote: | | he should be jailed for being a stupid arse! |
I thought the same as well Face. I mean, what the hell was he thinking? Dumb ass
And I did find it funny she had a yahoo account but there isn't really a problem with that per say, but is the Alaskan government so hard up they don't have an official State one?  |
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faceless
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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On a related note... haha
Man sentenced to stupidity
Friday, October 10, 2008
A Wisconsin man has avoided jail after a judge ordered him to instead stand outside a waste water treatment plant holding a sign saying 'I was stupid'. Shane McQuillan of Eau Claire County was found guilty of criminal damage after he drunkenly rammed his car into a closed gate at the plant. At the time of the incident last March, he told a police officer that he was 'just being stupid.'
Sentencing him on Wednesday, Judge Paul Lenz took him at his word, and gave him two options – jail time, or the humiliation of standing outside the plant holding the 'I was stupid' sign. McQuillan chose the 'stupid' option. |
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ItzMeRon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Give the kid a slap on the wrist and let him go. No need to ruin his life over this. If her account wasnt so easy to hack, then he wouldnt be where he is now. |
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faceless
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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that's like saying it's ok for someone to go into your house and lookabout if you've left the door unlocked...
which, strangely enough, is legal in Scotland, though I wouldn't recommend it! |
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ItzMeRon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I am not justifying his actions. I am just saying that if she locked the house, she just might prevent something from getting in that she did not want to. Thats all. |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| But she created a password. Just because she didn't make one that couldn't be hacked (like most people) doesn't make this her fault at all. I don't like the woman one bit, but I'm not going to put blame where it doesn't belong. |
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ItzMeRon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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Um, the kid googled the answers to the key questions to reset her password to something he wanted.
If I was a person in the public eye, I would figure people could google what street I grew up on, my first car, my mother's madien name, and what town I grew up in.....Then I would think to choose something else. If my password was reset by someone using found information on google, I would be embarrassed. |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| ItzMeRon wrote: | Um, the kid googled the answers to the key questions to reset her password to something he wanted.
If I was a person in the public eye, I would figure people could google what street I grew up on, my first car, my mother's madien name, and what town I grew up in.....Then I would think to choose something else. If my password was reset by someone using found information on google, I would be embarrassed. |
Um...that still doesn't make it her fault. It makes her someone who needs to become a bit more tech savvy yes, but not her fault for being hacked. It's like saying people who fall for phishing scams are to blame. They may not be bright for falling for it, but it doesn't make them to blame. |
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ItzMeRon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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I am not laying fault at all actually. I am laying out simple logic to you.
I do not know what you do for a living, but I work in the IT/MIS profession. Moreover, I conduct and assist in computer investigations and speak to one to many groups of people about the very same thing we are discussing right now.
Palin may not be at fault for getting her account hacked. But to me, this clearly shows she does not think things out thoroughly. |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I reject your logic and substitute it with my own. |
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ItzMeRon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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That is given.
But what about my logic are you rejecting exactly? Do you not think that she should have paid any mind to the fact that she is in the public eye and people might be able to guess her security questions? I was really not surprised to hear how it happened. |
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faceless
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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How do we know he just guessed the answers though? Take his word for it?
It was probably an old account anyway - but I wonder how he knew what her username was? I don't think she would have had a yahoo account published anywhere - any half decent adviser or web designer would have questioned that. |
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