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There’s a little place in my heart for the hacker. Especially the hacker that takes aim at politicians.
Palin’s Yahoo account was hacked yesterday with several email messages posted on WikiLeaks.
Here are the best bits:
Palin has come under fire for using private e-mail accounts to conduct state business. Critics allege that she uses the account to get around public records laws, as the Bush administration has also been charged with doing.
An index of the e-mails in her inbox, which includes sender, subject line and date sent, indicates that Palin received numerous e-mails from her aides in the governor’s office, some of which could be work-related.
An e-mail from her press secretary, Meghan Stapleton, indicates the message is about the “Motor Fuel Tax Suspension”.
The subject line of an e-mail from Randall Ruaro, her deputy chief of staff reads, “Draft letter to Governor Schwarzenegger.” Another one from Ruaro says, “Please approve” and another one is about “Court of Appeals Nominations.”
Other e-mails from Ruaro indicate they’re about employee and budget issues for the DPS. DPS is how Alaska refers to its Department of Public Safety.
Palin’s chief of staff, Michael Nizich, sent her an e-mail August 22 with the subject line, “Using Royalty Oil to Lower the Cost of Fuel for Alaskans.” The subject line of another e-mail from Nizich reads “CONFIDENTIAL Ethics Matter.”
And the cheekiest part of all:
A fourth screenshot shows an e-mail sent to Ivy Frye, a Palin aide, from someone claiming to belong to the group Anonymous advising that the person has changed the password to Palin’s Yahoo account to prevent other members of Anonymous from accessing it again. The e-mail includes the new password.
That’s home-grown vetting if I ever saw it.
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Things I immediately noticed from the screen shot sent by the hacker: they use Firefox, AIM, and Windows Messenger. Oh… and apparently there’s a paintball video playing on YouTube.
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