Palin was doing gov’t related emails through her personal Yahoo account. This is also a sign of stupidity. Like most people.. work email for work… personal email for personal stuff. This can especially be sensitive if she is doing work/representing Alaska in an unofficial/official way by using Yahoo email. It just goes further to show her lack of understanding current technology. Something doubly scary.. when you consider how non-tech McCain is.

Palin and the “hacker” both win awards for stupidity in execution of business.

1st. yahoo’s email system provides enough process to completely secure the login process. (at least from this kind of stuff) it’s up to the user to effectively use the functions. i don’t know if yahoo’s system kicks someone off for a specified amount of time if they try to login 100’s of times/sec. but that’s not what happened here.

2nd. the person who broke in, committed a crime. what type/severity will be determined by the authorities when/if they find the culprit. you can bitch right/wrong/severity all you want. if the authorities find the person, he’ll face a trail.

3rd. findiing public information, and using it to illegally gain entrance to private electronic systems is considered a crime. google for dumpster diving, social engineering to see how kevin mitnick got into systems. he never rewrote code to get in, at times, he’d pretend to be someone, and get an admin to give him a user/password, or he’d get information from dumpsters…

all information easily accessible to someone who wanted to find it, but it didn’t stop him from doing time in a federal place.

4th. this isn’t a blame thing from /for/against palin. personally, i don’t think she’s up the job of vp at this point. but she’s the person the repubs selected.

5th. i’m a liberal, so what’s your point, aside from the thing on top of your neck!

6th. i’m not sure you want to get into a conversation around ideology regarding political parties right now, considering that republicans have worshipped business for so long, but when business starts to screw up (at least at the top), you guys want to turn around and suck at the tit of gov’t with a serious assed hose!! but if you are into the ideological thing, i’m sure you’re screaming for your congressional reps to stop paulson, and hang the wall street companies out to dry, or at the very least, prosecute the corp mgrs!!

rant off…

peace..

Plus, if you’re hacked it’s not “breaking into a house” at all. Different scenarios, not completely, but you can’t literally apply the same treatment you would to a burglar as you would to a guy who got into your yahoo account

And yes I would feel the same, I would call anyone who uses yahoo for official purposes a retard, and I would criticise one for leaving the answers to the questions asked to reset the password on the internet! It’s not complex at all, I mean for chrissakes would you guys stop acting as if he just raped someone in her house?

It’s up to Yahoo to secure personal email accounts. Most of the world has no idea that email accounts can be hacked that easy, and it’s not their job to know. Does you mechanic mock you for not understanding everything about the inner workings of your car? Her knowledge of of Yahoo’s security measures has no bearing on her ability to lead a nation. I’d be more concerned with someone who has never, ever, ever held an executive position (i.e. a position that requires you to make important decision effecting other people on a daily basis) in his life. JMHO.

The kid should face charges on par with identity theft. Yahoo should be told to beef up their security. And this should be pasted across every major newspaper, but not with the name “Palin-gate”, a flimsy attempt to muddy the wrong name.

Spying – bad.

To prove you can spy but not actually do so isn’t that bad (though this kid probably should get a couple of days in jail). If we start using what this kid found in her email account against her, that’s another story entirely.

If this turd broke in her house he would be in jail being punked by other left-wing loser democrats in the pokey.

He know if he goes to the local hardware store they will sell him a key if he knows the owners birth date and when she first met her husband.

He gets that information, buys a key and breaks into the house. So you’re telling me when the cops catch him after he has shown what he stole at the local watering hole that he shouldn’t be charged with a felony?

What if the son of a Republican legislator was found guilty of breaking into Democratic national headquarters? Would you still feel he was guilty of nothing mroe than a misdemeanor?

Palin, Kernell, whoever – if email providers are able to be sued and held legally responsible to that degree they’ll all charge. It’s just a fact that Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, all of you with those accounts will have to pay or give up that ability to exchange information with everyone in your life.

Also, WoW, WTF brought you to that conclusion? And apparently you seem to have neglected the fact you’re discriminating gamers with that latter half of your post, utterly contradicting the upper half.

People are too quick to jump the gun and point fingers when it’s politics. If Palin weren’t part of politics, you’d all be their laughing at her foolish mistakes. Stop treating her like a rape victim and realise she is neglecting her responsibilities, treat her like you would an actual person you do not know.