Is there not a flaw in your logic here:

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(even though I was emailing them from my Yahoo account which should be proof of ownership).

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Surely if your account has been hacked then the proof of ownership is then gone?!

We always use secure passwords of no less than 10 characters with upper and lower case letters, numbers and upper case characters and a few special characters two, we also do not under any circumstances use a real word, nor do we write our password down.

She should have been taught all of this.

I can not believe they think this is secure, I don't know about Yahoo! e-mail system but if it isn't encrypted all the way through (I suspect it is isn't) why is she using it? It could have been side jacked. She could at least use gmail and use the https always option.

This woman is beyond belief when you think about her, Abstinence only sex education, please tell me how that works, Kids are gonna have sex anyway.

Paris, because this has happened to her too!

"I too recently had my Yahoo account hacked into..."

"(even though I was emailing them from my Yahoo account which should be proof of ownership)..."

Just think about it for a bit, Steve. I'm sure you'll get it.

She's a woman! How can she be expected to remember all that complicated computer password stuff?

Paris, because I'd be as rich as she is, if I had a dime for every time someone pulled that line on me, including female upper management.

You think Faux News and the "Church" of Scientology are reliable sources? Really? Really really?

For my own sanity please tell me you're a troll.

Also, Sarah Palin is a fundie gun-nut who needs throwing in the loonie bin like all the rest of the evangelical nutters.

"2. not have to choose."

WTF?!

Good, very good, on so many levels!

Good to know how clueless she is (see icon). Good to see that this sneaky technique finally backfired, too. Why do they think they have the right to hide official stuff from us? In the industry, such methods would get them their marching order.

@whadyaknow

Anonymous doesn't really exist as such, to my knowledge there's no membership card. "anonymous is this or that" is almost as stupid as "Al Qaeda is this or that". They're just nebulous concept that some people join and leave(more or less) at will, there is no intrinsic coherence nor general strategy. That being said, you might disapprove of some actions led by some self-proclaimed Anonimous people (I do), but citing Fox and a (stupid and heinous) YuoTube video doesn't exactly bring you credit.

On the first screenshot you can see that the |-|4><><0R was also browsing 4chan... and /b/, of all boards. Dirty perv.

Yahoo email has a password retrieval service in case you forget your password, which asks you a secret question like "What is your pet's name" - and supposedly her secret question was "What is your ZIP code". Durrr.

Umm should the real title have been "Anonymous! Hacks! Sarah! Palin's! Yahoo! Account! "???

Yeah yeah I know gratuitous use of the Yahoo punchline but how did the rest of you guys Miss! It!?? :)

Me thinks her password was "I_LOVE_JESUS_AND_GUNS", mustve thought that it was long enough and all caps with the underscores would help her not get hacked.....

/Anon causes im doing this at work and Boss is voting for them.

... that her yahooID was a somewhat reasonable "gov.palin@"; I expected something more, um, maverick-y like "akmoosehunter@" or "hockeymom@" or "guv4jesus@".

Yo ho ho and an inbox of guvmail.

This lady's email gets hacked and everyone immediately pins it onto anti scientology protesters? I don't see the connection here.

Paris cos she must be involved in this somehow too.

On the contrary - Anonymous delivers!

yahoo for business. karma

Funny she is the only person i know when you look pass or through her glasses the edge of her face still lines up. Plain glass ?

LOL

daft cow deserved it, isnt it weird every .gov wants to spy on its people but when stuff like this happens they dont like it.

http://bcclist.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/palins-yahoo-account-hacked.jpg

http://rs307.rapidshare.com/files/145931046/WWIII.7z

I think it is absolutely sad that Anonymous had to stoop to criminal acts to get attention. I am not a Sarah supporter, but I also do not support these type of attacks. Two wrongs do not make a right, so to speak.

"For my own sanity please tell me you're a troll.

Also, Sarah Palin is a fundie gun-nut who needs throwing in the loonie bin like all the rest of the evangelical nutters."

Who's the troll here? For your information, some seventy percent of Americans are active Christians. Whats with the hatefully sarcastic comment after comment?

Oh, I forgot, a bunch of limp wristed, sniveling, socialist europeans. Socialists are so good at sniveling.

I guess it's been enough decades for yall to forget that millions of God-fearing Americans cut from the same cloth as Palin as they gave their lives and blood to free europe from someone else who did'nt believe in God.

And thrown in the loonie bin along with all the rest of the evangelical nutters?

Perhaps you'd like to come do the throwing buddy?

Paris, because she's had what I'd give you.

There was much brouhaha about Palin and others using personal email accounts for state business, in order to avoid being on the public record about it. This sort of thing is needed to keep politicians honest(ish).

There is also the whole... doing state business on a Yahoo! account that anyone can reset the password by simply knowing your Zip code and your D.O.B. - stupid, and possibly illegal.

One hopes Obama and crew have better password security.

This is why I absolutely HATE these "security question" systems. It used to be "put your own question", so I could put weird riddles or some insane gibberish only I would know; but now the systems just force you to use stupid questions like "what's my pet's name", "what's my birthday" and that "mother's maiden name" question ... which by the way, is rubbish in some countries where the wife *doesn't* lose her last name.

Anyway, its stupid to use free e-mail services for serious stuff... it seems this Republican lot haven't yet grasped that, but then again, these guys put Exchange instead of Notes in the Whitehouse. Bleh.

OWNED

Let's face it: with 23 million noble sacrifices to your four-hundred-thousand-odd, it was the godless Commies who saved all our asses from the fascist nightmare.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004615.html

America's Wars: U.S. Casualties and Veterans

Battle deaths 291,557

Other deaths in service (nontheater) 113,842

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

Country Population 1939 Military deaths Civilian deaths

United States 131,028,000 416,800 1,700

Soviet Union 168,500,000 10,700,000 11,400,000

1st ac said fundie/evangelical, not christian. And if she wasn't trying to screw over the other 30% of .USians (a figure i would dispute), there wouldn't be the complaints.

After suffering through Sarbox, these governments - municipal, state and federal must do the same. Many companies now have policies banning the use of external email for company business, same with IM.

Why is no one pushing this agenda. If the gov are making the rules, they should have to follow it as well.......what am I talking about, that has never happened

surely the bint should have a secure email account hosted by the US government and not a dodgy Yahoo account.

If she was representing me and was using this address to receive my feedback, I would not trust it.

Is America intent on putting the more into moron?

Paris - because even she'd have a hilton.com-hosted email account

Pfft the US "helped" Europe to save its own ass. The prospect of a united Europe was too scary for the US. You "helped" europe out of self interest and ever since the US have tryed to screw with everyone. Any good will the US got back then is well spend my little americanSteroidepumpedRelegiousFanaticalJeasusassKissingGunLovingPsycoTwitt.

Go jump into your 8 ton 400 liter gas pr meter SUV and drive it off a very tall cliff will ya? Please? after all we need to prove Dawin right everytime we can.

ps. Very american of you to end with a threat.

It was "popcorn". Can you believe that? :P

>Anonymous is a leaderless collective of like-minded individuals, from all walks of life. >http://www.enturbulation.org/press-media/faq

The information contained within that page is mostly false. Anonymous is not an anti-scientology group, it's just a group of people (definitely not like-minded - a quick visit to /b/ will confirm this), a PORTION of which happen to be opposed to scientology.

Anon is also in favour of tits and lulz.

PS. El Reg admins; the spellchecking on this field is an absolute disaster. I would suggest fixing it, but that would be far too much work and as such i recommend ditching it altogether. At least make it stop correcting English spellings... Is this not a UK-based website, with a primarily UK-based demographic? :)

Those god-botherers are too much!

"I guess it's been enough decades for yall to forget that millions of God-fearing Americans cut from the same cloth as Palin as they gave their lives and blood to free europe from someone else who did'nt believe in God."

I'm going to guess you're talking about Hitler as Kaiser Wilhelm was a christian. If that's the case I suggest you learn a little history.

Approx. 330,000 US citizens died in WWII, compare that to 50,000,000 Soviet citizens and you may just begin to understand why Europeans find the US's conviction that you guys won the war single-handed both confusing and highly insulting.

Just in case your maths is as bad as your history perhaps I should point out that 330 thousand is not "millions." 50 million on the other hand, is.

Paris - because you've shown yourself to be as intelligent as she is.