About ten minutes ago, I stumbled across a news story online, that discussed the recent e-mail hack of Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin.
Okay, so, I'm not a fan of the woman. If I'm being honest, she's a laughing stock (although she's given comedians some damn good material, and for that I thank her.) But in this instance, I feel really, really sorry for her. Mainly because of a comment I read from the hacker in which they said they read all of her e-mails and found "nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped. All I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family."
The part of that comment that really bothered me? "All I saw was personal stuff". I'm sorry? ALL that you saw?
If I was Governor Palin, I'm not sure I'd see that as a minor thing. I think a small part of me would be wishing that they'd found campaign details! To refer to personal things as 'all' they'd seen, sickens me.
Not only this, the hacker has been posting online about how "easy" the hack was. He has also mentioned that as soon as he re-set her password, using DOB, Zip Code and a Google search to find the answer to her security question, he panicked. Not through any kind of guilt, however, purely because had only used one proxy to hide his IP address, making him vulnerable. The hacker said "I panicked, i still wanted the stuff out there but I didn’t know how to rapidsh*t all that stuff, so I posted the pass on , and then promptly deleted everything, and unplugged my internet and just sat there in a comatose state"
Personally, I think that somebody should post the hacker's personal e-mails online, I'm sure Governor Palin would love to see them.
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