This may not be the post you are expecting on this topic, but...

Hackers apparently hacked Governor Sarah Palin's yahoo email account today and posted screenshots on the web.

What I want to know is why Sarah Palin found it necessary to use her personal email accounts for government business. This concerns me because government accounts exist for a reason and part of that reason is accountability. My best guess, giving her the benefit of the doubt, would be that she is not aware of how important it is to use government email addresses for official business. I would hope that if she does become elected as Vice President of the United States, that she will not be doing the same thing.

What do you think?

-- Jeff

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"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." --Ronald Reagan

From my understanding, she didn’t use her yahoo account for government email. I read that there was nothing found in her email. I do think it’s wrong for someone to hack her email. Cybercrime is still a crime. She has a right to privacy. I hope the person who hacked her email is caught.

From what I heard, it wasn't even a real hack. The person knew what the email was and filled out the "Forgot Password" form, and was able to answer her security question based on a little research, which prompted a password reset.

This person will get caught. He stupidly posted screenshots of his findings which showed too much. The URL in the address box showed he was using a proxy, called ctunnel, and actually provided enough information for the ctunnel owner to find it in his logs to zero in on the user.

The information I read about that was posted yesterday morning. For all we know he could be discovered or even caught by now.

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