Comments on: Palin e-mail hacker traced to University of Tennessee dorm

By: Gizmo

Gizmo — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:20:07 +0000

Thanks, very good!

By: Автогрейдер

Автогрейдер — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:12:24 +0000

nice…

By: Robert Moyes

Robert Moyes — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:48:59 +0000

Oh yeah, and find a free overseas email account with totally random login

By: Robert Moyes

Robert Moyes — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:46:38 +0000

buy a usb wifi card with cash (not your lt’s internal mac address) drive to the next town, Wardrive til you find an open network. and for god’s sake use TOR!

By: whiskey

whiskey — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:25:41 +0000

A hack indeed, since he/she found out the flaw of Yahoo!’s verifying question system…

Maybe if the service had send the reset link to the Governor’s alternate email address instead of the web browser this could have been avoided.

@Riles: What if he/she saw all email but remembered to recheck as not read? (I know there are logs for that kind of stuff, which in turn is even scarier).

I guess the moral of the story is to be a bit more paranoid with security matters in general.

By: Riles

Riles — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:11:44 +0000

There’s a loophole if he just looked at old email rather than opening unread email.

@Acid Burn: You might want to watch your spelling and grammatical errors when you are calling someone stupid.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:34:20 +0000

What legal loophole?

By: Acid Burn

Acid Burn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:45:28 +0000

I would still call this a Hack by most definitions. This doesn’t make him intelligent by any means. In Fact you’d think he would be a little smarter being a Politicians son. Those democrats don’t breed intelligence though just another waist of perfectly good oxygen.

This kid probably just wanted a little fame.

There is only 2 kinds of hackers, those who are Famous and those who are good.

By: Dade Murphy

Dade Murphy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:10:04 +0000

I honestly wouldn’t qualify this kid as a “hacker”. They guessed the password off the reset questions, not much of a hack there. If there was a flaw in the system that was exploited then maybe but lets be honest, this was something that anyone based on the circumstances could have done. hack the planet