OT: Palin's e-mail and a warning

[mike radigan]

Wow! Who knew? Seems the hackers are always a step ahead. What would you suggest Mike?

Keep the file on a computer that is not ever hooked to the net or burn it to a CD.

[SFP]

but how does this have any relevance?
Amateur or not, there are millions out there and even a blind man can hit a nail with a hammer once in a while, so sooner or later one of the hacks gets the job done.
Although there is mounting evidence the guy wasn't a random hacker, but one with a clear political agenda.

BTW-- hackers also just defaced pages on the site of the new, huge, European super particle collider.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39304/113/

Just pointing out how ignorant the hacker was plain and simple. If you are going to play against the big boys you better know what you are doing. Only someone with a political agenda would have hacked into her private email. A professional hacker would only hacked into it if they knew that it could not be traced back to them and make some money. Making money off of her personal email would be stretch without getting caught.

[MacabreMob]

This guy was an amateur hack. I know guys that can hack away and not leave any information on who they are. One way of being completely anonymous is working from a public computer (public library). I'v worked with some brilliant white hats in the past who can gain access to just about any system they put some effort into.

Whoa - dude. Don't sick 'em on me. I'm a nobody.

[MacabreMob]

Btw - I missed Kim Komando's show today.... but she is pretty good at computers. Check her site out for MANY things including computers, ipods, digital cameras, etc:

http://www.komando.com/

[jasonpeoria911]

I've seen some amazing hacks before but nothing amazed me more than the show I watched last Christmas. It was about a group called a Tiger Team. They are infiltration experts and can hack/break into almost any business without being detected. Some of the hacks they did were pure amazing. The link below explains more about it and contains a link to watch the 2 episodes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Team_(TV_series)

Jason

[SFP]

We use to hack into corporate systems with the blessing of that companies security group to show them how vulnarable they were. We would do simple phone calls to people and get their username and password. You would be suprise how a simple walk through an office you can find passwords. The place most people leave their password is under their key board or taped somewhere within reach and eye sight of their terminal.