Sarah Palin goes the way of Paris Hilton

No maybe about the hacker

No maybe about the hacker being at fault. Locks are to keep honest people honest. Any lock can be picked, that's why we have laws. He/She/They should pay the price. Are you confused about who's at fault in rape cases, or is it a matter of degree?

I'll blame the hacking on

I'll blame the hacking on the hacker, but Palin really shouldn't be using a personal account for government business either...is she going to do the same thing as VP? Not what I would call improving national security.

So I guess if I get shot

So I guess if I get shot while walking down the street, it's my fault for being in the way of the bullet. You're a fraud. You are a lefty to the core, why don't you just admit it.

You can also to take the

You can also to take the mail out of my mailbox after the postman drops it off, but it's a felony. Do it, get caught, go to jail.

This is exactly why you

This is exactly why you don't use your yahoo email for business.
Also, angry political people aren't very bright, but the person that hacked this email account is.

What about the author of

What about the author of this article, who's primary purpose is to put Sarah Palin and Paris Hilton's name in the same headline, with some fluffy nothing content, to try and merge the two personalities in the reader's mind, and get it posted on news.google.com.

Doing this through a hacking attempt by some snot nosed kid of a Democratic representative in Tennessee? Nice.

Also transparent. Liberal Media....get a life.

Just blaming the hacker and

Just blaming the hacker and leaving it at that is short-sighted. The fact that it was hacked is obviously his (or her) fault. The fact that it was so easy to do, however, was not.

The "security questions" now used by a lot of sites for password recovery/logging in without a password are much too easy to find. There are a couple of workarounds for this, such as sending an email to the person after the security questions have been answered (Too bad email itself isn't secured) or choosing questions not easy to look up (As mentioned, a lot of sites only let you use pre-chosen questions, and many/all of them are often a matter of public record or easily found online).

It's not as glamorous as looking into new crypto algorithms or trying to crack existing ones, but security researchers really should look into this aspect of digital security.

What a lame attempt to link

What a lame attempt to link Sarah Palin to Paris Hilton. I'll bet to you got all tingly when you finally thought of it.

I'm suprised someone put a

I'm suprised someone put a link to this article from a google news page. I'm sure it's because the liberal media is doing what they do best, speading their stupidity. The writer cannot differentiate as to whether a criminal is at fault. That's sad. If I don't lock my house doors and turn on the alarm, then am I at fault? 'Maybe', according to the author. Sad. Are all his articles like, "I don't know the answer, but I can drum up stupid questions.".

The writer gives himself

The writer gives himself away immediately with the "wannabe VP" comment. Right off you know his piece will be dismissive of Palin. The writer is your typical arrogant liberal--just the sort of stuff made for Google news. I want McCain to win, but that will pale in comparison to the joy I will experience at witnessing these leftist snakes choke on their own bile.

first there was not any

first there was not any government information in the account. There were personal matters being discussed with other government officials, but there is not security risk there.
Second, I think that we do need to start holding the respective sites as to how they handle things like a password reset. I am in the web programing field and there is a lot of things that they could have done that would have been much better. There are systems out there that they could implement that would take a great deal of knowledge of the person to crack through, not just the birth date and some silly question about their past. Most if not all of those are guessable or for the case of someone in the public view can be looked up.

If you want to look more into what can be done about this you can look here. This isn't new news.

It sounds to me like there

It sounds to me like there is a hole in the security question methodology used by many websites. It is better to have a reset password be sent via email to the email address known to the account. That also alerts the account holder that somebody was trying to mess with the account if the account holder didn't request the password reset.

We can blame the "hacker"

We can blame the "hacker" for all of this, but frankly, that's beside the point. if a snot-nosed kid from somewhere can hack the governor's account, what's going to happen when she's president and facing a cartel of hackers from China and Russia? It's true that the "hacker" did a "bad thing," but guess what, this is a bad world and she's going to be facing much more difficult challenges as president.

Palin choice to use a Yahoo account was grossly negligent and motivated by her desire to be able to delete evidence when convenient, a tactic learned from the Bush administration. She cannot be trusted to defend our nation.

Why does a governor and VP

Why does a governor and VP candidate have a yahoo account? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to have something behind the great governmental firewalls?

What a completely lame

What a completely lame article that manages only to link Palin with Hilton in a headline, useful only to the propagation of hate and misinformation from the left. This is the disgraceful tactic of a small mind without ethics.

That is why you create a

That is why you create a false profile. Always have an email address that no one knows about. This is where you store your private information. Then you create fake answers that only you know. Where were you born? Maybe you were born in Anchorage, but you write something like Barbie Dream House.

Mybe like me she has no

Mybe like me she has no skeletons in the cupboard to hide so is not ultra security conscious

My banks security questions

My banks security questions are equally lame. They were:
What's your favorite movie?
What's your favorite restaurant?
What's your favorite drink?

I didn't like these questions because the answers can change depending on the last movie you've seen, the last place you've eaten or the latest drink had. I called them to complain; but they didn't seem to care. I answered all of their questions as "none". I don't bank there anymore.

AGREE WITH LAST ANONYMOUS

AGREE WITH LAST ANONYMOUS POST! AAAAH SHUTUP!!!!

Perhaps people wouldn't have

Perhaps people wouldn't have a dubious attitude about hacking Yahoo! accounts if our leaders weren't so ethically challenged.

I dig how all these mouth

I dig how all these mouth breathing rednecks quickly blame everything on "the left" and "the librul media!!!!!1" These are the same fuks who quickly blame hurricane survivors for their own plight (why didn't they leave when they had the chance?? Always waiting for their nanny-state to come save them! Let 'em suffer now! Next time, be prepared). Well, dumbfuks, time for the "self-reliant" crowd to own up to their own failures. Creationist Barbie was too stupid to not use a freaking webmail account for government e-mails? Then deal with the fallout.

As much as we'd all like to

As much as we'd all like to blame the hacker, the reality is that our data is at stake, and like physical security, the idea is to be harder to get in than the next guy. Here's how I accomplish that task:

1) never use a real password for bogus accounts. Who cares if your Washington Post account is compromised -- it doesn't matter. Use bugmenot.com to share passwords for these annoyances. Also keeps people from potentially learning the passwords you use for your real account.

2) Security questions: do what the article says we shouldn't: use a bogus answer like Abraham Lincoln as your birthday. Spectacularly effective, but hard to remember. My strategy: use the same bogus answer (perhaps "qwertyuiop[]\") and always choose the first question in the dropdown.

3) use a password generator/manager like keypass to generate and remember strong passwords for all your real accounts, and use absurdly difficult unlock questions (the abraham lincoln example above, but use randomly generated trash instead) for things like bank accounts etc.

4) Use pseudonyms for secure accounts, not your real name, not your email address, but something different. Some people like to use the name of a character from their favorite book, for example. Who would "guess" that my bank username is "gandalf"?

5) Use email encryption for sensitive emails. It's totally surprising to me that, despite good security for emails being quite standardized as s/mime, that practically nobody uses that technology to secure sensitive information.

6) Stay under the radar. Celebrities will always be attacked with a direct concerted effort. The rest of us are merely passively attacked -- if our accounts survive the first attack, the bad guy will just visit our proverbial next door neighbor.

Why does no one tries this

Why does no one tries this angle or even speculates that she might even want this account to be Hacked while she knows that there was not very much in these emails to incriminate her. She is a Sly Fox from Alaska that has two yahoo accounts. Maybe there are more accounts we do not know. She could use the government email servers but she did not and Why?

The first sentence referring

The first sentence referring to “Wannabe” express your articles remaining content. Also a comparison between Palin and Paris Hilton what does that have to do with security? The next time a writer from IT world offers their opinion I hope politics isn’t involved. Please don’t print Wannabe advice and stick to the facts.

Surely,the 'hacker' is

Surely,the 'hacker' is responsible for his actions,however if she's to be a VP,don't expect anybody to go easy on her.I don't think America deserves such a reckless veep!

No, it's totally Palin's

No, it's totally Palin's fault here. As a major public figure she needs to be more cautious about everything, from the way she looks to the way she conducts her business. Based on what I've been reading about this whole issue, and about Palin in general, she conducts her business in a very poor manner that isn't suitable for the office of VP, let alone for president (god forbid!).

In an age where identity theft and cybercrime is on the rise we need leaders who at least can protect their e-mail accounts. Heck, we need leaders who are savvy enough to use the Internet at the very least. How are we, the 'regular' people, to feel safe in our own homes and with our own personal information when the people at the highest levels of our government can't even protect theirs?

Does Markus Jakobsson have

Does Markus Jakobsson have any basis for asserting that the hacker was "wishing to find incriminating information in her emails"?

This was a product of 4chan's /b/ community, and they are just as interested (if not more) in stirring up chaos, as they are in actually exposing anything.

So, why has this (literally) anonymous person been transformed into some "unknown political hacktivist"?

It would appear that like

It would appear that like John McCain Sarah Palin has very little Internet knowledge. Create a safe password and security question answers. Misspell words and or use upper and lower case letters. Properly dispose any paper documents with personal or government information. As a Governor Palin should be aware of how to responsibly handle both private and public information.

Not about hacking, but while

Not about hacking, but while we're on the subject of Paris Hilton, someone just emailed me this:

http://givemeamillionparishilton.com/

Pretty funny. Pass it on!

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I for one would be glad to

I for one would be glad to see Sarah Palin fade from the political landscape now that she has stepped down as Governor of Alaska.
I’ve never understood the fascination with her and would have been truly concerned for our neighbours to the south, and all of the free world, had she been a heartbeat away from being U.S. President.
My impressions are based on all I have seen and heard from Palin since she arrived on the national scene as John McCain’s running mate on the Republican ticket for last November’s U.S. Presidential election.
I was turned off right away with a comment she made while accepting the Vice-President candidacy. You may remember the quote; “what’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”
I’m sure she meant it to be catchy but the only inference I could make is, because their child plays an aggressive sport, mom has a license to act out aggressively too. Like an ill tempered pit bull apparently.
A recognized problem in all minor sports, not just hockey, is parents getting too emotionally wrapped up in their child’s sport and acting inappropriately around the arena, field, diamond, wherever the sport is being played.
The goal for parents with children playing minor sports is to be supportive. Of course they can, and should if necessary, act aggressively in defence of their child, if he or she is being mistreated or facing an injustice, but that’s not what Palin’s quote implied. canadian payday loans