Comments on: Palin email hack post mortem

By: morison dony

morison dony — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:53:45 +0000

Just grabbed the feed… thanks for posting this.

By: djboom

djboom — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:39:54 +0000

hack this account in game and send the pass word in my account this is my email=cruellouis16@yahoo.com tnx :D

By: mdaicm@gmail.com

mdaicm@gmail.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:07:40 +0000

mdaicm@gmail.com

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:19:19 +0000

I can just see her stupid ass now emailing some foreign minister with smileys and whimsical sarcasm. Chick’s a joke, man.

By: static

static — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:05:47 +0000

Sigh, I’m tired of Sarah Palin already, a total fraud. In the event she where a Democrat, the right wing talk shows, would have labeled her a feminazi. I sure there’s a scramble to rewrite security guidelines. Anyone breaking into any email account used by a government official, is taking a big risk, in today’s be afraid America.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:25:28 +0000

bawwwwww, there was no dirt but lets read our personal bias into it anyways.

BTW hackaday – good job on the article, as opposed to every other media outlets’ horrible misunderstanding of the content.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:35:12 +0000

What’s of interest is that Palin is using a private email address for public business while claiming protection for “private” email addresses during an investigation into abuse of power. It doesn’t really matter that there wasn’t an email here that said “let’s abuse my position to harass my ex LOL”. This discovery raises questions about her character and strengthens doubts about both her judgment and potential criminal behavior.

By: cool

cool — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:35:56 +0000

i just stumbled on this. im happy to read (rather skim) that you used the proper terminology of “crack” rather than the notoriously misused term “hack.”

though the news is rather uninteresting.

By: Louis II

Louis II — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:29:21 +0000

“I still can’t believe people enter the actual answers to password reset questions.”

Can you believe people still enter the suggested password types too, like… “a pet’s name”?

Most common password in the US is still a pet’s name… and working at a computer repair place on a university campus showed me the next favorite is a loved one’s name followed by a sports person of some kind (like a race-car driver), followed by a vehicle of some kind and from there it does got a little foggy, but these are all one word passwords of things we know these people like coupled with (in most cases) the last two digits of the birthday of the person who set the password.

Peace!

By: Doc

Doc — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:53:37 +0000

Security issues aside (and Palin’s security naivete’ is bothersome) did she use private e-mail to conduct state business out of the public eye? I don’t know about Alaska, but other more progressive states have ruled that communications between public officials are subject to open-meeting laws.

By: at0m

at0m — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:00:48 +0000

These password reset questions are indeed a super vulnerability of yahoo, hotmail and the like… This breach making the headlines is pretty dumb, but raises public awareness over this issue nevertheless. Many people don’t realise (or worse, care for) how vulnerable their data are.
On one of the web’s best security sensibilisation sites offers a neat password generating page: https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm
Enjoy :)

By: amk

amk — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:50:29 +0000

awesome. not only did she use the yahoo account to conduct (arguably unofficial) government business, but she gave real answers to the security questions protecting the account.

honestly, how many people reading this are stupid enough to use their mothers real maiden name? i’m sure she’ll rock at national security.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:12:28 +0000

The password reset question can be a cypher in its own. Perhaps it is the name of a hash algorithm the owner has created and no one else would know. The deeper one reads into one of these questions the less likely it will be to break.

By: suckItLibs

suckItLibs — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:56:29 +0000

Goodbye Hack a Day… How lame you’ve become.

By: Dr.Danger

Dr.Danger — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:15:40 +0000

What I mean is, posted as an informational for people to not be stupid with their passwords. Not as “cool hacking news”