the library of google once again proves its might. In google we trust.

The ironic thing is they did it using John McCain's Blackberry

This is partly Yahoo's (and other mail providers) fault. It used to be, that you could enter a security question yourself, like "How many hairs do I have on my balls?". Then they fixed it and locked you into a bunch of stupid questions, the majority of which could easily be answered by most of your colleagues at work. Which kinda defeats the whole purpose of a *security* question.

Granted, people with an internet prowess higher than that of a drunken monkey don't answer these questions anymore, but that kinda defeats the whole purpose of a security question too.

lmfao at google we trust!! i hope this guy doesn't get caught lol

I call this vigilante justice. The woman is already under investigation for corruption charges and wrongful termination of government employees. Now we find out through this that she was conducting government business through Yahoo email, most likely to avoid freedom of information acts. Why is she running for VP again? Is the Republican Party TRYING to destroy any shred of credibility it has left?

In Google we trust indeed. XD

HAIL GOOGLE!!!

"I call this vigilante justice. The woman is already under investigation for corruption charges and wrongful termination of government employees. Now we find out through this that she was conducting government business through Yahoo email, most likely to avoid freedom of information acts. Why is she running for VP again? Is the Republican Party TRYING to destroy any shred of credibility it has left?"

No website is spare from another liberal wackjob!

VIVE LE GOOGLE!!!

This is a bit of a slap towards republican security. I suppose its time the "grand old party" gets an IT guy...

Considering how divided down the middle this country is between "conservative Republican" and "liberal Democrat" ideals, any comment probably would lead to a series of flames and thumbs down.

Pretending she isn't McCain's VP but a just a person, this shows how... um... ignorant many people are about taking good security measures. jhansonxi was dead on - you can greatly increase your security by picking nonsensical answers (or mapping the "standard" questions to a list of crazy made up questions so they make sense to yourself).

However, considering her status, my concern is that the government will deem Anonymous' recent actions (between the hack and Scientology threats) as a "terrorist organization" and thus use their extreme powers to crack down on US dissidents.

The whole secret question thing is BS anyways. People just need to remember their passwords. I like to use math equations rendered in latex as password because remembering equations is easy and the added latex notation makes it tough as hell to crack

and if you can remember the PW then do something simple and wright it down in a text document that is unnamed.

Yes, lets give the nuclear codes to someone who does government business using an online e-mail account. I used to think that all this talk about doomsday in 2012 was a joke but if this fool gets into the White House all bets are off. God save us from your followers

Nice to know how many defenders of privacy there are in this forum and on this website. Question: given Jane's flippant writing does Tom's value your privacy? I see the need to remind all you idiots including the author that Palin was a victim of a crime and none of you have any evidence whatsoever to prove your allegations. Email titles don't betray contents. The emails could have been overtly political. In which case it would have been a crime to send them over gov't email. You simply don't know. Jane (the author)certainly showed she cares more about such allegations than privacy or the law, after all the victim is a Republican so therefore it's ok. No need to focus on the crime just the spoils of that crime. Then she proceeds to exaggerate the spoils of that crime. Stalin would be proud Jane.

BTW I am not red faced for a left wing hacker's vileness. Obviously you should be but you don't understand the concept of shame.

Honestly this is quite funny. I find that since it was so easy to guess the password like this (guessing passwords is hardly hacking in my book) I find that possibly other hackers or amateur crackers to anon will start to try this trick on other account.

Though I feel very sorry for the poor guy who did hack the account. If it were me I would have not changed the password and just collected as many Emails as possible and leak them all at once to the press and other forums. Not only that but also secure other ways to get back into the account should the pass be changed. This would have proven much more funny cause lets face it. This is just embarrassing for Yahoo and Palin. Not to mention a huge motive booster for other hackers out there. I do believe we will see more leaks similar to this but not revealed as such. x3

pereira5375 ya it was illegal and ya it is a shame when it happens to average joes but you have to understand that we the american people have been lied to and decieved by the republican party for the past 8 years...they have been pulling illegal crap for years and dont get caught or charged or anything and when ever legitimet partys try to invesigate them they are stone walled and can do anything. So some individual took maters in to his own hands and succeded where all other legal actions failed it might not have gotten when they wanted but they exposed a little bit of what they have been hiding and dont want the average people to see and by average people I mean people who make less than 100k a year....it seems once u make more then that you automaticly become a republican

Why isn't this in the newspapers or new sites? I would've expected this to be bigger news especially since this would give some ammo for the Obama camp. Just another thing, I think Palin has a history of electing friends into office.

McCain has stated that he doe not know how to operate a computer or use email. =( I do not want to vote for someone that is not current with the times and still hanging on to old values. I think America needs a huge culture change to stay up in the modern world.

Of course, liberals talk so much about personal privacy, and how "evil" Bush is, but when one of their own violates a a citizens rights, why, it's funny. So long as it's a Republican citizen, correct you liberal hypocrites? Cuz we don't have the same rights, correct?
Funny, that's the same story Mao and Lenin, Stalin,Trotsky had, and they slaughtered 10-12 times as many people as the Socialist Hitler did. It always starts with hate, hypocrisy, and lies. Who better at that than Pelosi , Kennedy and Obama? If Obama had been hacked, you two-faced racists would have been screaming about "bitter whites" again keeping the black man down. Instead, you laugh about it. That's why your Muslim leader Obama is in such a close race with a 70 year old nincompoop. At least McCain loves his country, like your precious JFK did: Remember "Ask not what your country can do for you.."? You would all call JFK a Republican, by your loony standards now.
A crime is a crime. If you can't accept that, then leave America, it's that simple. Iran would be glad to have you.

The hacker should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

In other words fry the bastard.

It's nice to see the comments by the Marxist idiots.

The pervasive ignorance amuses me.

Although, it also scares the hell out of me.

Hell!

And I thought that Boston Legal was exaggerated!! Those left and right wing attacks are so damn funny for someone outside the USA.

Any outcome of the next elections is going to be so sweet. If McCain wins there's another Cold War and probably Iraq will be 10 times worst than Vietnam. If Obama wins I think that a new Civil War is coming...

You believe that because you're clueless.

If everyone wants to get into a heated political debate, I'll make it simple for everyone. Anyone who blindly follows a political party is an idiot. And anyone who wants to see McCain/Palin running this country and thinks they'd improve the country are brain damaged. The Republicans are so corrupt and out of touch and delusional now, that I'd vote Democrat just to get a fresh perspective because McCain has no answers and he just panders to the crowds, and choosing Palin as his running mate shows that he cares more about votes than policy and good leadership.

Yeah, and the Marxist Obama is the second coming.:lol:

I do suspect that if Obama gets elected and is finally privy to the inside information, he will change his tune.

He is currently selling vapor to get elected.

antiliberal - You completely missed the point of why. It's not that Dems don't care when a Republican's info gets spilled publicly. In fact, it should not even be viewed as a Republican vs Democrat issue. It should be viewed as a citizen vs. politician issue. The thing is, Republicans and Democrats (most of them, including McCain) supported acts and laws which essentially violate our privacy as American citizens meanwhile, the current politicians in office have become more dishonest and secretive regarding themselves. It's a double standard.

In a Democracy, we are supposed to have open, free knowledge about the government, what it's doing, and why, while the CITIZENS privacy should be protected. The whole point of having open knowledge of the government is so that we can have informed public discourse about our nation and the way it is going, and ultimately, how we should vote to solve our problems. We have it almost completely backward now. We now talk about mundane things, like the pregnancy of a VP's daughter, and almost completely ignore other issues, while the government keeps working to get full access to our private lives. I don't like that the economy sucks, but I'm happy that it does right now because it's keeping us focused on an issue that actually matters.

Point being, this has nothing to do with Republicans vs. Democrats. This is citizens vs. the government.

Zorg- don't kid yourself, every politician sells vapor to get elected. If anything, McCain is worse than Obama- McCain has flip flopped and lied more in this election than John Kerry did last election.

The problem that you're missing is this Zorg- if a Republican gets elected into office this year, even if it is McCain (whom I used to support, and no longer do because he has changed his political persona), the Republicans will take it as a sign that the American people are happy with their policies just the way they are and will do little to nothing to change. This is what happened when Bush got re-elected. Bush even said it in a few speeches. And now we are in an economic mess, and Bin Laden is not apprehended. These are not good policies to continue, and as citizens, we cannot take the chance that the Republicans will fix the mess, especially when they have been known to take an election as vindication of their policies.

go back to youtube with the rest of the delusional imbeciles.

The Congress, and now the courts, really control, not the President. The Democrat controlled congress has done absolutely nothing, except hold hearings on baseball, and stand in the way of more oil production. I could go on, but this is not the forum for this discussion.

i noticed how much trash you guys are talking about google's security and i didnt see one question the validity of the matter.. i mean come on just take a look at the subject titles

“FW: Motor Fuel Tax Suspension,” “FW: CONFIDENTIAL Ethics Matter,” “Draft letter to Governor Schwarzenegger / Container Tax,” “RE: Using Royalty Oil to Lower the Cost of Fuel for Alaskans,” “Court of Appeals / Executive Director Parole Board / Boards and Commissions” and our personal favorite, “FW: DPS Personnel and Budget Issues,”


I bet 1/1,000,000 this is BS, this is just another of their BS campaign tricks.. i dont know who is the source but i bet is the republican party itself, what a coincidence ha?

oh yea and expect 100% tax cuts in oil and a big fat stimulus check for when shes vice president ha ha you idiotas

Hallowed are the Google!!!