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Sep
18
Okay so I fell for it too. Anonymous, the famous, brilliant, sometimes genius hacker dudes that broke into Scientology, did not, in fact hack Yahoo, and break into Sarah Palin’s e-mail.
It was Rubico. Ah, good ole Rubico. He didn’t have to hack anything. He just used Google. And trusted that Palin didn’t know enough about the internet to give a shit about security. Why would a person holding an executive office with tons of experience ever need to know that?
Here are some questions: Why is a VP candidate, a person who holds an executive office, has loads of foreign relations experience, and is more qualified for the job than Obama, McCain, and Bidden combined, have a Yahoo e-mail account?
Doesn’t it seem silly to anyone that someone who is supposedly experienced and savvy enough to run this country would have a little bit of common sense and know how when it comes to e-mails? Wouldn’t you think that her people, or McCain’s people, or someone’s people would have nailed that shut on day one?
And if I hear one more lame excuse being made for our leaders inability to grasp something as technically challenging as a keyboard and mouse, I’m really going to punch myself in the face.
It’s the 21st century! If you haven’t heard about hackers, firewalls, encryption, and passwords you’re in an asylum, in a padded cell, on some serious meds.
You’re not working in government and certainly not asking for the most powerful job in the free world.
McCain doesn’t know how to use a computer because his fingers were broken in the war? Two words … Steven Hawking (I have to give credit to my friend Alan for that one). Bush doesn’t use a computer because? Well, we know why he doesn’t, or can’t. What’s her excuse going to be? I can’t wait for this one. And don’t tell me the NSA, Homeland Security, the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, or any of Palin’s kids didn’t have access to information like this.
She was so naive to the dangers of internet security - the next terrorist play ground - because she lived out in wholesome, all american, we’re one of you, Alaska. And watch, that’ll make her even more endearing to the morons that actually think she’s on our side and just a down home girl with a dream.
Sep
18
How we got into this mess
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Okay, I’ve been worried about it. Worried about the economy, but not really understanding why I’m worried.
Glenn Beck, CNN, has a pretty good explanation here.
I’m not too keen on having mortgages compared to Tickle me Elmo, but come to think of it they’re both pretty obnoxious.
Sep
18
Jimmy Orr at The Christain Science Monitor has a take on this.
The comments too, are priceless.
Sep
18
So, I was reading this morning, CNN, the Post (Washigton and Huffington), Politico, New York Times, BBC. I unfortunately get feeds from all of them and more. Oh, and NPR and BBC radio, let’s not forget my auditory news while driving (it’s actually not driving, but more like a road rage survival video game). Any way, I was looking and listening to the news. I learned about Palin’s e-mail; Obama’s and Mccain’s answer to our problems, whether financial, or somehow related to terrorists; which monstrous financial institutions are failing and which ones are getting bailed out; and a delightful story about the much needed and anticipated three-ply toilet paper.
Starting Monday (possibly Sunday) we started hearing about major corporations being bailed out, bought out, or left to fail. Economists left to speculate on something too confusing to articulate and the final answer is that we’re left holding the bag. That tax payers, and most likely the middle class will take most of the hit. How am I going to come up with $85 billion? I don’t have that kind of money. What are the monthly payments going to look like?
Which of course inevitably leads me to a couple of other questions: Why aren’t they being charged the 23-29% apr that the rest of us are? And of that 80% of stock the gov’t now holds, what’s my share and where are my dividends?
What I learned and always suspected, with the exception of the toilet paper, is that we’ve been lied to. Possibly swindled, and asked to bend over and take it. Hard.
As James Moore puts it, “Don’t let them tell you this economic meltdown is a complicated mess. It’s not. Our national financial crisis is readily understood by anyone who has seen greed and hypocrisy. But we are now witnessing them on a profound, monumental scale.”
Sep
18
Palin hacked by Anonymous
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Anonymous, the same hacker group that broke into Scientology, hacked Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail.
Time has an article here. In the article they reference the site, www.wikileaks.org on which the e-mails were posted. Reaching that site is another story all together. The site has either been taken down, or overloaded. Another site, www.wikileak.org (no “s”), has posted a message for people who reach that site by mistake. The blogger on wikileak seems to be very upset by what ever happens on wikileakS.
The site’s (the one with no “s”) intent is to discuss what’s happening on the other site (with an “s”) and now he’s pissed off that people are on his site.
As one commenter put it, “… obviously tyrannical people who would dedicate a blog, to be a copy cat of another blog are just asking to be found here.”
I would kill for more traffic (not literally) and this guy is upset that he’s getting it. Why not politely tell people they’re in the wrong place, but hang out in the mean time?
He would have been better off posting ads.
Posting comments on his site, however, are subject to his approval, so who knows whether mine will show up. starting my comment with, “You ignorant douche,” may not have been the best idea, in retrospect.
As far as Palin’s e-mails … I’m still looking for those.
