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Date: 19 Sep 2008 19:28:28
From: samsloan
Subject: Palin Hacker is USCF Member rated 1913
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All evidence seems to indicate that the person who hacked into VP
Candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo account is USCF scholastic member David
Kernell.
http://uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?12830368
He has a USCF rating of 1913 and won the 2004 Tennessee Open
Scholastic Chess Championship.
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4018
Sam Sloan
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 21:14:06
From: Andrew Usher
Subject: Re: Palin Hacker is USCF Member rated 1913
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On Sep 20, 10:31 pm, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> When I am asked for the answer to a secret question, I use the name
> of my first pet. Nobody, not even my wife or my daughters, knows the
> name of my first pet and it is not a name that one would guess, so I
> feel that it is secure. (However, my brother might remember it.)
>
> I never use "Mother's Maiden Name" anymore if I can avoid it, because
> I have a genealogy website where that information is available.
I always put in fake stuff when one of those security questions is
demanded;
I feel that's the only thing really secure.
They really should stop asking for stuff like that, precisely because
people
are likely to know it.
> There is a new danger in a site called http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/connections
>
> At least ten people including two of my children have asked me to join
> that site in the past few weeks. In order to join YOU MUST USE YOUR
> REAL EMAIL PASSWORD, which they check. If you try to use another
> password which is different than your real password, they say that
> this is not the correct password.
That sounds really bad. Many sites require a functioning address, but
I've never heard of a password!
Andrew Usher
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 09:14:39
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Palin Hacker is USCF Member rated 1913
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SPECIAL REPORT: Sarah Palin's email problems exposed
Separating fact from fiction
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Gone?, Sarah Palin's Yahoo email troubles mirror email security,
privacy, and identity theft concerns we all face.
While there has not yet been any official statement from Palin's team
that her email was actually hacked, David reports that a forensic
investigation should examine a series of specific issues: how it
happened; whether it could have happened; whether there was any
wrongdoing; and, what the truth really is about the previous Alaskan
requests for her email records?
The Palin email hacking incident has been at the top of the news
through a confluence of events: the extraordinary attention Governor
Palin has been getting as the surprise Vice Presidential nominee of
the Republican party, an investigation into missing email messages
that might shed light on her alleged wrongdoing in the firing of the
Alaskan Public Safety Commissioner, and the break-in and subsequent
publication of what is claimed to be the contents of her Yahoo email
account.
The 1,448 word Special Report explores the following issues:
* Five specific ways Governor Palin's Yahoo email account may have
been compromised.
* How your email accounts might also be hacked in exactly the same way
Palin's were reported to be, and what you can do to protect yourself.
* What this hacking incident might mean for the various Alaskan state
investigations into Governor Palin's possible participation in
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how the severity of the issue might differ considerably.
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samsloan wrote:
> When I am asked for the answer to a secret question, I use the name
> of my first pet. Nobody, not even my wife or my daughters, knows the
> name of my first pet and it is not a name that one would guess, so I
> feel that it is secure. (However, my brother might remember it.)
>
> I never use "Mother's Maiden Name" anymore if I can avoid it, because
> I have a genealogy website where that information is available.
>
> There is a new danger in a site called
> http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/connections
>
> At least ten people including two of my children have asked me to join
> that site in the past few weeks. In order to join YOU MUST USE YOUR
> REAL EMAIL PASSWORD, which they check. If you try to use another
> password which is different than your real password, they say that
> this is not the correct password.
>
> This is assuming that you use one of the popular email sites such as
> hotmail, yahoo, gmail, aol etc.
>
> They claim to have 20 million subscribers.
>
> That means that they have stolen the password from 20 million (stupid)
> people.
>
> I believe that this is how the "Fake Bill Goichberg" got the email
> password of the Real Bill Goichberg.
>
> Sam Sloan
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 17:27:33
From: Chess One
Subject: Re: Palin Hacker is USCF Member rated 1913
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<[email protected] > wrote in message
news:53187d4f-7ce4-46b3-8220-f15d0403baee@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> SPECIAL REPORT: Sarah Palin's email problems exposed
> Separating fact from fiction
>
> This story has reinforced once again just how important David's
> recommendations in Where Have All The Emails Gone? are. Those six
> steps may be the only path that will prevent the problems we seem to
> be constantly discovering from happening with future administrations
> -- and even other governments throughout the world.
Sir,
Since you represent these matters to us - how like she is to Mr Micawber.
He was of course of magnificent consequence, as she, and furthermore his
better-half belivieved in him unto and after prison for 'trying'. Such a
woman as Mrs Micawber is valuable, indeed, a salutory woman methinks. Such a
woman cannot possibly be confused with Gov. Palin who is more alike to be
mixed with her namesake Michael of Monty Python fame.
Now, since I write here as some Uria Heep might attempt - skirting the exact
litigious matter, and quote an alike pop-group of whom you will not be aware
for 3 reasons (a) they spelled themselves "Heap" (b) they were not so
'pop'ular, and (c) nor had any matter of substance to relate other than
'freedom'. [It, like our Mrs. Palin, was never established as being a
freedom-to or a freedom-from] Anyway, I lose my strenghth in parenthesis.
Even said Heep would certainly most 'umbly disagree with what is public and
private about what is conspiracy and private and what not.
But this would merely reduce the current election race in the USA to
mid-Victorian "B" characters, which in effect it is as treated by the media.
Copperfield should himself prefer his father figure of Micawber and his
umble friend Heep to get along as best they can - and to have wished they
met earlier!
Instead we have this level of intellect displayed, public and private, to
the co-candidate for the most powerful postion in the world; and of its
content let me say an unpopular thing - that the co-candidate does the
gender of women no favors whatever.
That is the real issue. The remains of the day issues only media attention
to an amplified sunset, lasting a day or so in memory [no other thing said
does, except the 'reception' of the the candidate]. That is the mood of the
people, or at least, of all the people I know, men and women, even liberals
and most conservaties.
What our hacker has outed is a plain view of the person. Of course the
method is as unavowable as in any wartime activity, whether public or
performed by the state.
It strikes me particularly that the country should consider such material of
more interest than what it reveals - today I read of the ailing Tolkien, who
wrote his son about 'not in a soil in which fungus-growth of cults is likely
to arise':
The horrors of the American scene I will pass over,
though they have given me great distress and labour,
(They arise in an entirely different mental climate
and soil, polluted and impoverished to a degree
only paralleled by the lunatic destruction of physical
lands which Americans inhabit.)
That is the state of your nation, Sir, still. The body of it, as some
psychologists would say, is intimate with tyhe soul of it.
And still it possesses the best and the worst of people's activities, and
still the most potent nation - for good or for ill. At such tides, are we
not sensing ourselves in some sort of internal conflict where, to use the
Founder's own sense of things, "freedom of speech" is the freedom to speak
one's conscience, not the first nor every thing to enter one's head, and
certainly not the freedom to Orewellian spin.
Cordially, Phil Innes
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Date: 20 Sep 2008 21:31:18
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Palin Hacker is USCF Member rated 1913
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When I am asked for the answer to a secret question, I use the name
of my first pet. Nobody, not even my wife or my daughters, knows the
name of my first pet and it is not a name that one would guess, so I
feel that it is secure. (However, my brother might remember it.)
I never use "Mother's Maiden Name" anymore if I can avoid it, because
I have a genealogy website where that information is available.
There is a new danger in a site called
http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/connections
At least ten people including two of my children have asked me to join
that site in the past few weeks. In order to join YOU MUST USE YOUR
REAL EMAIL PASSWORD, which they check. If you try to use another
password which is different than your real password, they say that
this is not the correct password.
This is assuming that you use one of the popular email sites such as
hotmail, yahoo, gmail, aol etc.
They claim to have 20 million subscribers.
That means that they have stolen the password from 20 million (stupid)
people.
I believe that this is how the "Fake Bill Goichberg" got the email
password of the Real Bill Goichberg.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 20 Sep 2008 03:30:48
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Palin Hacker is USCF Member rated 1913
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On Sep 19, 10:28=A0pm, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> All evidence seems to indicate that the person who hacked into VP
> Candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo account is USCF scholastic member David
> Kernell.
>
> http://uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?12830368
>
> He has a USCF rating of 1913 and won the 2004 Tennessee Open
> Scholastic Chess Championship.
>
> http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3D4018
>
> Sam Sloan
He has played in 200 USCF Rated tournaments since 2001 and won the
2004 Tennessee State High School Championship, directed by Harry
Sabine.
http://uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?200409047410.4-12830368
I say we should give him a life membership !
Sam Sloan
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