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Chuckit
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Oct 8, 2008, 05:34 PM
 
Actually, didn't this kid say he found no evidence of that?
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Oct 8, 2008, 05:51 PM
 
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Actually, didn't this kid say he found no evidence of that?
Aside from the unsent draft letters to various statesmen, Palin had various other private mail accounts that were not hacked. The company that set up the government email system stated that Palin regularly used outside email accounts to correspond with several staff members.

Several ethics complaints have been filed in Alaska. Those involved in the current lawsuit against Palin have requested, under the Open Documents law, the emails she had sent. By claiming executive privilege, Palin withheld over 1100 emails.

I'd wager good money Palin is going to use a page out of Shrub's play book and "accidentally" delete those 1100 emails.
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Oct 8, 2008, 06:03 PM
 
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Five years for reading a couple of emails? Good grief, you can kill someone and get less than that.
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So it was a prank.
BTW, it wasn't hacking (as in using a weakness of the code), AFAIK the password was reset after (correctly) answering the security questions.

It wasn't a prank. His stated intent was to search for incriminating emails and disclose them to the media so that it could damage Palin's reputation. Furthermore he posted the reset password on some internet site so that other 3rd parties could access the account and he is therefore responsible for any information that was leaked as a result of his actions.

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Oct 8, 2008, 06:17 PM
 
Yeah, I agree that it was pretty heinous, but doesn't the fact that it wasn't a government email account change anything? Does her being a Governor give her more protection from stuff like this or would anyone who figures out the password for someone's personal email accounts be held to this same level of punishment? That's what I want to know.

To me you have two big problems here.

Problem Number 1: This dumbass kid who wants to go all "War Games" and violated the law for internet cred. Not cool at all. He deserves to be punished. No question. How big of an idiot do you have to be to start hacking into a vice-presidentials email account? Jesus.

Problem Number 2: Why the hell is the governor of a state using a Yahoo! account to do state business? Seems very foolish and/or possibly shady.

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Oct 8, 2008, 07:48 PM
 
^agreed.

and the kid didn't find anything watergateish, but just the fact that the some of the emails were state business and on yahoo is not kosher.
     
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Oct 8, 2008, 07:52 PM
 
Technically, the fact that account was compromised means we can't really trust what the contents of it were reported to be....
     
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Oct 8, 2008, 08:07 PM
 
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Technically, the fact that account was compromised means we can't really trust what the contents of it were reported to be....
Not really. Yahoo doesn't support editing old mail.
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Oct 8, 2008, 08:26 PM
 
But new E-mails with forged headers can be produced, and older e-mails could have been deleted. Not sure how easy it would have been to forge receive timestamps, but I'm sure there is a way. I think with password access to an account, you could pretty much be able to change it to look just the way you wanted.
     
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Oct 8, 2008, 11:12 PM
 
And sometimes people are given a harsher punishment because it is a high profile crime to discourage others from following in their footsteps or to make an example of them. Martha Stewart and now OJ Simpson were treated with a heavier hand than the crimes they committed really called for. This kid should be dragged through the mud to teach him a lesson. A couple weeks in jail, a few years of probation, and limiting his access to a computer is more than appropriate given the malice and intent of his crime. His dad is still a congressman so I doubt he'll be going to jail for very long.

You can bring up all the questions you want about Palin using a non-government account but since it was discovered by illegal means it may as well have never happened now. It also has nothing to do with how this kid should be punished.

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Oct 9, 2008, 01:56 AM
 
Well, shouldn't we be more worried about what the vice president is doing rather than what some dumbass kid is doing? I don't really concern myself with his sentencing... but I would like to more about why she was using a yahoo! account to do government business.

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Oct 9, 2008, 02:58 AM
 
You can send email with forged headers regardless of whether you have an account's password or not. I don't see how having the password to a Yahoo account would let you make someone look more guilty rather than just delete evidence.
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Oct 9, 2008, 05:12 AM
 
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Martha Stewart and now OJ Simpson were treated with a heavier hand than the crimes they committed really called for.
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