Is would-be VP Sarah Palin a hacker?

[Crabtownboy]

You decide. Regardless of what you feel, it is an interesting article.

Does the GOP VP nominee possess hidden computer skills? Can she possibly bring the White House into the 21st century, technologically at least? Cringely has a few thoughts.
TAGS: Hackme Inc., Political pandering, Wikinomics


As we've learned over the last few days, the presumptive GOP candidate for vice president is many things: a reformist governor, a hunter, an ex-beauty queen, a mother of five, a physical fitness nut, and a lover of caribou burgers.

But is she a hacker?

According to the Anchorage Daily News she is. In a front page story from September 2004, the ADN describes Palin thusly:

Sarah Palin never thought of herself as an investigator.....Yet there she was, hacking uncomfortably into Randy Ruedrich's computer, looking for evidence that the state Republican Party boss had broken the state ethics law while a member of the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission.

In the great north, where political corruption vies with oil and gas for the state's primary export, it seems Palin was asked to rummage around former state GOP leader Ruedrich's hard drive.

... The next week, when Palin went back to work at the AOGCC, she noticed that Ruedrich had removed his pictures from the walls and the personal effects from his desk. But as she and an AOGCC technician worked their way around his computer password at the behest of an assistant attorney general in Fairbanks, they found his cleanup had not extended to his electronic files.

The technician "said it looked like he tried to delete this, but she knew a way to go around and get some of the deleted stuff," Palin said in an interview. "I didn't know what I was looking for, but I was there."

Palin found dozens of e-mail messages and documents stacked up in trash folders, many showing work Ruedrich had been doing for the Republican Party and others showing how closely he worked with at least one company he was supposed to be regulating.

Obviously they don't see a lot of hackers up in polar bear country, because it doesn't look like Palin did more than some basic electronic dumpster diving in Ruedrich's trash can. But it is reassuring to note that at least someone on the Elephant ticket knows something about computers, after McCain's admission to complete and utter ignorance of all things digital [video].

We don't yet know what Obama's geek cred is. But I'll bet $50 he's a Mac and not a PC.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2008/09/is_wouldbe_vp_s.html

 

[targus]

"Palin found dozens of e-mail messages and documents stacked up in trash folders"

No... looking at files left in the trashbin hardly consitutes hacking.

 

[Crabtownboy]

"Palin found dozens of e-mail messages and documents stacked up in trash folders"

No... looking at files left in the trashbin hardly consitutes hacking.

The technician "said it looked like he tried to delete this, but she knew a way to go around and get some of the deleted stuff," Palin said in an interview. "I didn't know what I was looking for, but I was there."

You realize it was the 'trash folder' on the computer ... not as in trash folder sitting on the floor of his office?

 

[ReformedBaptist]

This is just stupid. I wonder how much they pay smear-merchants.

 

[webdog]

Crabtownboy, in the other Palin thread you claimed to not be placing the crime on the one it was committed against...yet you are doing just that here. Typical liberalism

I bet you started a thread how Reginald Denny shouldn't have been driving his truck through a black neighborhood :BangHead:

 

[carpro]

http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.htm

Reporting Computer, Internet-Related, or Intellectual Property Crime
Internet-related crime, like any other crime, should be reported to appropriate law enforcement investigative authorities at the local, state, federal, or international levels, depending on the scope of the crime. Citizens who are aware of federal crimes should report them to local offices of federal law enforcement.

Reporting Computer Crime
Reporting Intellectual Property Crime
Reporting Computer Hacking, Fraud and Other Internet-Related Crime

The primary federal law enforcement agencies that investigate domestic crime on the Internet include: the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United States Secret Service, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) , the United States Postal Inspection Service, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) . Each of these agencies has offices conveniently located in every state to which crimes may be reported. Contact information regarding these local offices may be found in local telephone directories. In general, federal crime may be reported to the local office of an appropriate law enforcement agency by a telephone call and by requesting the "Duty Complaint Agent."

Each law enforcement agency also has a headquarters (HQ) in Washington, D.C., which has agents who specialize in particular areas. For example, the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service both have headquarters-based specialists in computer intrusion (i.e., computer hacker) cases.

To determine some of the federal investigative law enforcement agencies that may be appropriate for reporting certain kinds of crime, please refer to the following table:

Type of Crime Appropriate federal investigative law enforcement agencies

Computer intrusion (i.e. hacking) FBI local office
U.S. Secret Service
Internet Crime Complaint Center

Password trafficking FBI local office
U.S. Secret Service
Internet Crime Complaint Center

 

[tinytim]

Thou shalt not bear false witness...

Slander to make King Messiah Obama look good is the typical, liberal worship given to Obama.

Liberals are runnin' scared!

 

[Revmitchell]

Thou shalt not bear false witness...

Slander to make King Messiah Obama look good is the typical, liberal worship given to Obama.

Liberals are runnin' scared!

And Desperate that the culture of corruption of the Democratic party will be on the fore front.

 

[bobbyd]

wow, liberals in desperation really are scary.

 

[Revmitchell]

wow, liberals in desperation really are scary.

And vicious.

 

[targus]

You realize it was the 'trash folder' on the computer ... not as in trash folder sitting on the floor of his office?

Yes. My point remains. Looking in the trashbin (on the computer) does not make one a hacker.

 

[just-want-peace]

As I have seen on another board the comment "Liberalism is a fatal disease!", this thread just confirms that statement!!!!!!

To say the liberals are "DESPERATE" is as much of an understatement as just calling Hitler a guy that didn't like Jews.

WOW!!! This is Twilight Zone material.