Hackers, Shitheads, Anonymous & Three New Fish…

So here I am, sitting at a community college in upstate New York waiting for my girlfriend to get out of class. It's been a while since I posted again, and again, I am sorry for that. Seems my life is constantly a big clusterfuck. Shit is always crazy in the life of Unr3a1. I turned 24, been working my ass off, went on vacation, and been dealing with some personal shit.

So I will start with the more useless news. I now am the proud parent of three fish. My girlfriend really wanted to get fish, so we went down to the local PetSmart to pick a few up. We got a starter kit that included a 10-gallon tank, tank filter, water conditioners, and instructions on how to care for the tank and the fish themselves. We then picked up some really pink tank rocks, a little mountain with a bunch of holes in it, and a fake plant. It looks ok, except the girly looking rocks at the bottom of the tank. The three fish we have are a Black Moore goldfish, a Calico goldfish, and then some gold and black one that I have no idea what the name of them is. My two crazy cats love to just stare at the fish in the tank and try to paw at them through the glass. And fish are a pain the ass to take care of. You gotta feed them, change the water in the tank on a weekly basis, make sure the PH levels of the water are normal… just a hassle. But they are interesting to look at, so for now they can stay.

So a guy on 4chan posted information that he got when he hacked into Governor Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo e-mail account. Of course you really couldn't call it "hacking" because all he did was reset the password on her account using public information. All he really accomplished there was showing how retarded Palin was by using information that was readily available to the public as her security information for password recovery. I mean, you work in a public position; why the fuck would you have your security questions ask you shit that I can Google? I mean, in her defense, I never even heard of her until she was announced as McCain's running mate, but even still. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that maybe you shouldn't use the date you met your husband when the date is on friggin' Wikipedia.

Besides exposing Palin's total lack of concern for proper security, the intruder in her account was able to take several screenshots of what he found. I will not post any links here, as I do not feel compelled to give the FBI any reason to shut down my site here. It is obvious that they shut down wikileaks because the site was mysteriously unreachable for almost 20 hours starting shortly after the information was posted. It has since been restored to an online status, but for a while there, it was touch and go…

The big thing about what happened is the individual who posted the information to 4chan entrusted that information to them. The whistle might not have been blown so quickly if had not been for some shithead who decided that it wasn't "right" to break into her account. While technically what the guy did was illegal; it was still the search for information. I mean it wasn't revealed until later, but for a while there people thought that Palin was using this Yahoo e-mail address so that she could hide behind privacy laws. So basically, for the future security of our people and to ensure that she wasn't using her personal email for governmental purposes, it was almost necessary to get in to see what exactly she was using it for. Now, the intruder admitted that she didn't have anything incriminating that would suggest that we should question her reasoning for using this address, so as far as I am concerned this should be considered a "no harm, no foul".

Also, the anon on 4chan who took it upon himself to be the good Samaritan by revealing to her and to the public of what happened fucked it up, which could have potentially made it a hundred times worse for Palin. She is lucky that Yahoo has a security feature that locks the account for 24 hours after too many failed logon attempts. According to Wired, when he posted on 4chan that he had changed the password to her account and alerted friends of hers as to what happened, he posted a screenshot of the email he sent to Ivy Frye, a Palin aide. In this email was the password that he had changed her account to; and the dumb white knight fucker didn't blotch it out. So everyone on 4chan saw the new password and tried to log into the account to change it again causing it to lock up.

Palin has since deleted the account from Yahoo and understandably so. She got pretty close to yet another scandal. However, I think that all of us can learn some valuable lessons from this whole debacle. First off, I think we can take from this, is that since it has also been reported that the Secret Service is investigating who broke into Palin's account, one should never break into any government official's email. Considering everything that has happened with Palin's e-mail address getting deleted, Wikileaks being shut down, the Secret Service being involved in finding out who did it, I would say it was a BIG no-no. Second, you should never trust anyone on 4chan with any kind of sensitive information (no offense anon). Last - but certainly not least - if one should try and be a hero and save the day, for shits sake make sure you smudge out the new password when trying to tell people to give up on breaking into the site. Palin's moron for a white knight fell of his high horse pretty damn quickly.

In different news, a hacker from the Netherlands tried desperately to get into a router in the call center that I work at. I wrote up the whole story, but since I am trying to get it published in 2600, it will have to wait to be posted here. They won't publish it if it has been published elsewhere and that includes my own blog. But as soon as I know whether they will publish it or not, I will post it here as it is a pretty interesting story. Until next time, please remember to try and not break into any politicians e-mail. It's bad joo-joo.