Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! account was hacked anonymously and screen shots posted on wikileaks which issued a press release claiming the anti-Scientology activists Anonymous were behind it.
However, that faction of Anonymous says no:
One of the main tenets of the anonymous movement against the Church of Scientology is to stay legal. Anonymous is no fixed group, just a term for anyone who acts without giving their name. We don’t know who is responsible for the hack on Sarah Palin’s mail account or what their attitudes to Scientology or anything else are. For us, they are anonymous, because we don’t know who they are and they are not us.
"We know it’s not those of us against scientology" said an "Anonymous" participant in IMs with us. "Radar suggested we do that in a recent column. Which is precisely why we wouldn’t. NYPA (not your personal army)."
Most likely, according to another Anonymous insider, speaking to us exclusively, "It was /b/ from 4chan, a group that posts anonymously and creates internet mayhem and mischief. "




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That anonymous. So prolific and busy.
So an anonymous hacker gets into the governor’s “private” email account (that she has used to conduct state business).
Shows a real commitment to security there.
And so inconsistent. Sometimes he’s for something, then against, then for it again. Sometimes his spelling’s great, sometimes it’s awful. If I didn’t know better, I’d someone of masquerading.
Prolific, busy, ubiquitously ‘everywhere’ and seemingly ageless. Ah that
anonymous. And, amazingly, Anonymous could be just about anyone …
It’s like any other V-for-Vendetta proto-”terror” organization: it attracts copycats and wannabes who besmirch the name of the original organization with their idiotic tactics.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ar…..-fire.html
Well, it just confirms what we already knew – she’s not too bright.
If she becomes VP, can we impeach her for compromising national security. I can only, but shutter, thinking what she would do with a national security briefing.
Not sureKnow she isn’t bright enough to even know what damage leaking the information could cause.Sounds as though Palins crew are the product of the offspring of interbreeding.
It was almost certainly J. Random /b/tard doing it for the lulz,
Yahoo had better have a backup. And the moral of this story? If you’re going to run official business off-the-books, don’t do it on commodity email. The other takeaway: the Alaska legislature might want to consider some laws to keep official business on official technology.
I’ve asked before & I ask again. I’d like to see the DNA of the whole Palin family, and now we must also see it for her whole crew.
This is a Rove operation to gain sympathy for Palin and the Republics. He did something similar in 1986, when he claimed, just before a crucial debate in a campaign, that his office was bugged.
Just watching Chris Matthews on Hardball with a new and different quote from Obama (paraphrasing): John McCain says he’s very angry with those greedy people on Wall Street! He’s so angry he wants to give them $450,000,000 of new tax breaks!”
Shows a real commitment to security there.
And we are supposed to trust her with National Security.
Well, while you’re filing a FOIA, how ‘about requesting ‘em for all of mcsame’s mouthpieces. *G*
/b/ at 4chan isn’t copycat. (It’s Longcat). It’s where the Anonymous declaration of war against Scientology was posted, and Project Chanology founded:
Now, Anonymous are Legion, as they say, not one person, as a mob it is irrational and unreasonable, everywhere and nowhere, so this is all Completely Untrue at the same time.
Can you imagine the discoveries we’d be able to make with that info??!!
Tweety is on fire tonight. He must have lost millions in the market the last two days. Pressing the Rethug…”Where is the President?”…”Where does the buck stop?”
It’s time to bring out the ole rubber stamp. All the republic idiots who voted in lock step with the bush economic policy are now trying to run away from it like they don’t know anything about it. It’s nice to see someone calling them on the carpet for it. The average American is really struggling unlike all those “rich” folks in congress.
He actually said, “Where’s Bush, hiding in the White House? This is another Katrina.”
How can it be that the President and all of his spy agencies, with the consent of Congress (FISA bill) are free to read anyone’s email and spy on us in ways that we can’t even imagine, but some yahoo’s breaking into Palin’s Yahoo account is cause for great alarm?
The Secret Service and FBI will be all over this “crime.”
WTF is wrong with this country?
Sarah Palin says the buck stops right where she shoots it.
John McCain says he knows where the buck stops and if you elect him he’ll tell us.
John McCain isn’t fit to be President.
Let’s give Obama a chance.
I think two or three key things:
1) America got so strong nothing can knock us over (except ourselves).
2) Republicans, particularly after Nixon, felt they couldn’t win politics.
3) America figured out how to make the economy go great.
The effects are:
1) Malcontents felt they could rape America and not fear it would die.
2) Republicans began to feel it was alright to cheat & steal to get even.
3) With all the wealth who would notice if you stole a few billion?
These 3 things have had a powerful effect throughout our Society.
He can’t mean Bush; not GW Bush, that dashing fella in the flight suit that Mathews so admired that he gushed at his manliness on TV.
What I really hate about this “Anonymous” organization is how they’ve taken over the internet. If you don’t remember to post something with your name…the Anonymous organization claims credit for your comments!
MFG! That’s just like McCain claiming credit for the Blackberry! Or not protecting the intellectual property rights of Chuck Berry, Van Halen, Jackson Brown, Heart, John Cougar, etc.
Could John McCain be “Anonymous”?
After all, the hack happened coincidentally after he sent special aides up there to assist Palin with keeping her emails secret. They would have obtained her email passwords…so maybe it’s an inside job?
Yeah, this is to crank up the “Sarah as victim” outrage mill.
The war, the economy, Russia, Social Security that’s what we need to talk about.
This story puts the emphasis on Palin and personalities, just where Rove-hole and Schmidt want it.
This is an attempt to change the debate, it’s a ratfuck.
-G