Yesterday, hackers from 4chan's /b/ message board broke into Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, which she used for government purposes. Arguably, this is information that would have come out anyway, since there's been an open records act request since effin' June, which is itself related to the trooper firing fiasco (I refuse to use the -gate suffix for every scandal that comes along ). On the other hand, it's an invasion of privacy, and although I don't think the US has any laws against hacking someone's email or anything, it's an invasion of privacy basically the online version of burglary. Cyber-burglary, if you will. This basically raises the question: Do the ends justify the means?

w.t.f. This is horrible. God I hate Anonymous. I don't care if there's an act that approves it (btw, the link doesn't work), this just isn't right. Mail of any kind, electronically or snail mail, are mailed to that specific person for a reason. It's private personal stuff and it should stay that way.

I wanted to say that I agree wholeheartedly about the "-gate" thing. It makes no sense at all. The Watergate scandal wasn't a scandal about water.

Anyway, I'm continually annoyed at /b/tards--technically savvy or not--co-opting the Anonymous name (if that's not a contradiction) for every bullshit thing they come up with. It's perhaps understandable, although perhaps not, that the mainstream media assumes it must be the same people every time.

EDIT: Okay, I skimmed the article too quickly. However, I am bemused by Palin's decision to use such an insecure e-mail account for information she wanted to keep hidden.

I heard about this on the TV. I remember my old CS131 professor saying, "Always expect everything private to have the potential to become public." This being said about e-mails.

My question is: what the blazes does everyone have against the woman? Why are they hacking her Yahoo! e-mail? What does it matter if she uses Yahoo! for government e-mails (as John McCain defend her, she was using it for minor e-mails with which she didn't want to clog the tubes of important government business; not that it should matter if she'd use personal e-mail for important stuff)? What are they hoping to achieve?

As a Troll of Trolls who wrote the Guide on Trolling and publicly claimed to be the asshat who trolled the Dominic Deegan forum, I am very annoyed by this bullshittery. The good troll does his job for a reason, and I can't figure any reason why these /b/astards are attacking her. I guess they want to try to break her spirit or something.

"Oh, look! It's just another woman! Another dumb ho! Let's make her cry! Hae, hae!"

I can't wait to see the Photoshop nudes of her start popping up.

Oh, by the way; they said it on the news, but I don't know if it's in that link. Anyway, the dumb ass who took those Print Screenshots was a retard and forgot to filter out the tabs at the top of the window, so there was all sorts of evidence left behind.

While I wouldn't justify this kind of thing from a legal standpoint, I think it's pretty kickass from a street justice standpoint.

just to be clear, they didn't so much hack it as guess her secret password.

I get the feeling someone is deleting my posts around here...

If I were in public office, I think I'd use something a bit more secure than Yahoo.

And just exactly what's so insecure about Yahoo? I've been using the same name and same password for the last ten years, and no one's gotten in, yet. Hell, I even have a password so easy, even a baby could figure it out.

Anyway, Kamineko, my post originally asked, "zOMFG SOURCE LOLZ! No, really, because on the TV, they said the hackers used some kind of third-party site to hack her account via legal loopholes concerning hacking."

Whatever, I'll still vote for McCain, if only because is means more fake nudes of his VP flooding the Internet once they're in office.