Dandelion Salad
Note: there is more important news for today, check the other posts here on Dandelion Salad. Economy is collapsing and possible war with Pakistan come to mind. ~ Lo
Updated: here’s a mirrored site and Wired article
The site is either too busy or it’s been taken down. Not surprising. I’ll add a couple of screenshots that I made earlier today. ~ Lo
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From: Wikileaks Press Office <press@wikileaks.org>
Date: 17 September 2008 21:13:36 BDT
To: recipient-list-suppressed: ;
Subject: Wikileaks Palin hack independently confirmed, expanded
Reply-To: wl-press@wikileaks.org
More information from Wikileaks on the Palin hack:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/VP_contender_Sarah_Palin_hacked [Note: link doesn’t work any longer]
The internet activist group ‘anonymous’, famed for its exposure of unethical behavior by the Scientology cult, has now gone after the Alaskan governor and republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
At around midnight last night some members affiliated with the group gained access to governor Palin’s email account “gov.palin@yahoo.com” and handed over the contents to the government sunshine site Wikileaks.org.
Governor Palin has come under media criticism in the past week for using private email accounts to avoid Alaskan freedom of information laws. The contents of the mailbox show this to be true and also hold clues of at least one other Yahoo based mail account held by Palin, “gov.sarah@yahoo.com“.
The zip archive made available by Wikileaks contains screen shots of Palin’s inbox, two example emails, address book and a couple of family photos. The list of correspondence, together with the account name tends to re-enforce the earlier criticism of Palin’s email use.
The list of emails include an exchange with Alaskan Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell about his campaign for Congress. Another screenshot shows Palin’s inbox and an e-mail from Amy McCorkell, whom Palin appointed to the Governor’s Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in 2007.
The e-mail, a message of support to Palin, tells her not to let negative press get to her and asks Palin to pray for McCorkell, who writes that “I need strength to 1. keep employment, 2. not have to choose.”
According to Kim Zetter of Wired Magazine, McCorkell confirmed that she did send the e-mail to Palin.
Subsequently tests by Wikileaks reveal that both Palin’s “gov.palin@yahoo.com” and her unrelated “gov.sarah@yahoo.com” account have now been deleted, almost certainly by Palin herself.
According to the Guardian, who has looked at the Wikileaks data, among the emails in Palin’s account were several from addresses belonging to her aides, including a draft letter to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a discussion of nominations to the state court of appeals, and several bearing “DPS”, the acronym for the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
DPS supervises the Alaska state troopers. Could the e-mails in question be relevant to the brewing ethics storm over Palin’s push to sack her former brother-in-law from the force?
The contact list included also holds accounts for other official representative’s private email accounts, including those of Alaska’s Kris Perry and Sharon Leighow.
Screenshots and other details follow:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/VP_contender_Sarah_Palin_hacked
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Wikileaks posts a hack of Palin’s e-mail account
by Elana Schor
In addition to family photos, the group appears to have found corroboration that the governor conducted Alaska business via yahoo.com
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http://www.guardian.co.uk
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Updated
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