The latest news buzz was all about Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s hacked email account.
Palin’s personal Yahoo account was apparently ransacked late Tuesday evening. All of the contents of the account like personal emails, email addresses of her parents, children and friends, private family photos, and phone numbers — were published all over the Internet on Wednesday.
McCain campaign comments on it as Shocking invasion
“This is a shocking invasion of the governor’s privacy and a violation of law,” McCain’s campaign manager said. “The matter has been turned over to the FBI and the Secret Service, who are now working as a team to investigate the breach.
Yeah, but…
The hacking community however isn’t really in to the “authority thing.”
“This use of the accounts is a naked affront to public records laws in Alaska,” Tate writes. “But it’s not exceptional: It’s one battle in a 30-years war between conservatives and civil libertarians over government openness, during which the current presidential administration itself blurred the lines between public and private email. Is there any way to finally stop these hijacks?”
The British IT website The Register published an article early this morning with the wonderfully attractive headline: Memo to US Secret Service: Net proxy may pinpoint Palin email hackers.
Translation? If the feds were to contact an individual named Gabriel Ramuglia they might be able to track down the, as President Bush and Aquaman would say, “evil-doers.”
The 25-year-old webmaster and entrepreneur is the operator of Ctunnel.com, the browsing proxy service used by the group that hacked into the vice presidential candidate’s personal email account and exposed its contents to the world. While he has yet to examine his logs, he says there’s a good chance they will lead to those responsible, thanks to some carelessness on their part. They also have to act fast now, as the logs will expire in 7 days.
