Eoraptor

November 14, 2010 at 5:44pm

Seriously? the kid did something any idiot with a functioning knowledge of Google could have done. While it was technically illegal, it frankly has all the seriousness of stealing a campaign sign from someone's yard or smashing a car window. Fine the dumb guy and send him on his way, depression or no.

I can damned well guarantee that if it was you or me whose Yahoo was hacked and they even managed to catch the schmuck, he'd probably get a dozen hours community service at worst. The only reason he's going to a halfway house is because Palin and the RNC wanted a patsy/strawman/boogeyman.

Kudos for reporting that yes, Palin was MORE guilty here, for conducting official state business basically like a craigslist sale. I could go off for several thousand words about palin and her ilk (and how my "K" key is screwed up) but I won't. The fact that she compares having her vacation photos downloaded to an event that brought the functional government of the U.S. to a standstill should speak for itself.

Nimrod

November 14, 2010 at 5:02pm

"Thomas W. Phillips recommended be spared a prison sentence because of his struggles with depression which predate the incident."

What a bunch of pussy azz bullspit. This is pathetic beyond all reason. If a person isnt to depressed to commit a crime then why the fuck are they to depressed to serve time in prison? I hope this douche bag gets his ass kicked reall good at some point over the next year.

 

Get rid of this idiot CAPTCHA and put a REAL comments forum in here please. This is really bad. You run articals about FIreFox and browsers all the time and yet this is the ONLY form on the entire internet ive found that disables my FF spell cheker and i cant past MSO docs to here without it displaying all their code.

 

epic fail MPC

 

Blaze589

November 14, 2010 at 4:37pm

Her password was never cracked. If you read the article you'd know that her security question was entered correctly thus resetting the password. It was not an act of stupidity; it's an unfortunate circumstance of being well known. The moral that everyone should derive from this is that you should lie on every security question. Make sure those answers are not personal as security questions are visible to customer service agents.

tonymus

November 14, 2010 at 2:18pm

     I expect a bunch of Palin bashers to post here, but think about what the kid was trying to do.  He hacked into her personal e-mail in order to find incriminating evidence to throw the election to Barack Obama.  He tried to influence a Federal election through theft of information, not completely dissimilar to what Republican operatives tried to do in the Watergate scandal in 1972.  Most of those involved in that scandal served jail time; he should be thanking his stars he only got one year at a halfway house.

     And the original post here blames Palin for having a password that is too easy to crack.  Why did the perp need to crack it in the first place?  That's like me going to your home, breaking your door down, stealing the flat screen, and blaming it on you because you didn't have a strong enough door.

     Lastly, I'm OK with her not "forgiving" the perp.  Again, SHE was the victim.  Forgiveness is a personal matter, not a public one.  In any case, she's allowed to do it on her timetable, not anyone else's.

I Jedi

November 14, 2010 at 1:37pm

In a way, I am happy that they are letting this man stay at a halfway house. He's just a dumb kid, who made a poor choice when it came to hacking a politician's email account. Of course, the lesson here is that you shouldn't use an easy-to-guess email password, as this kid simply used simple passwords when trying to get in. I'm surprised, actually, that more people didn't try to do the same before this kid. 

Oh, and wtf is with Sara Palin's cold-ass heart? I mean, I know she was ticked that some kid tried to derail her election, but no harm, no foul, yeah? The dumb lady should have known better than to use such an easy password.