Comments on: Palin Yahoo eMail Hacked, Posted on WikiLeaks http://demockracy.com/palin-yahoo-email-hacked-posted-on-wikileaks/ Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:23:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Kevin http://demockracy.com/palin-yahoo-email-hacked-posted-on-wikileaks/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Kevin Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:00:22 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=392#comment-48 Thanks for elaborating on all of that, Mark. I've heard that it might be illegal for her to conduct government business via her yahoo account. Is that true in general or only true because it was possibly done with malicious intent? Thanks for elaborating on all of that, Mark. I’ve heard that it might be illegal for her to conduct government business via her yahoo account. Is that true in general or only true because it was possibly done with malicious intent?

]]> By: Mark http://demockracy.com/palin-yahoo-email-hacked-posted-on-wikileaks/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Mark Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:24:57 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=392#comment-47 If they wanted to, investigators could certainly subpoena her "private" Yahoo emails, given evidence that Palin and her aides used private accounts for the express purpose of evading subpoenas. You'll recall that Rove & Co. used this same tactic with the RNC email addresses, but the RNC conveniently "lost" all the emails requested because they re-use backup tapes. As an IT guy who deals with backups every day, I can say with 100% certainty that if an organization wanted to create an environment in which it would be very easy to lose important data, by building negligence into the design and not being redundant about backups, then it would be very easy. Unfortunately, Yahoo <i>does</i> do frequent backing up, so the plausible deniability here is not as easy as with Rove. If they wanted to, investigators could certainly subpoena her “private” Yahoo emails, given evidence that Palin and her aides used private accounts for the express purpose of evading subpoenas. You’ll recall that Rove & Co. used this same tactic with the RNC email addresses, but the RNC conveniently “lost” all the emails requested because they re-use backup tapes.

As an IT guy who deals with backups every day, I can say with 100% certainty that if an organization wanted to create an environment in which it would be very easy to lose important data, by building negligence into the design and not being redundant about backups, then it would be very easy. Unfortunately, Yahoo does do frequent backing up, so the plausible deniability here is not as easy as with Rove.

]]> By: Kevin http://demockracy.com/palin-yahoo-email-hacked-posted-on-wikileaks/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Kevin Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:46:27 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=392#comment-46 Here's more on this topic from an article Mark wrote recently: http://demockracy.com/secrecy-you-can-believe-in/ Here’s more on this topic from an article Mark wrote recently:

http://demockracy.com/secrecy-you-can-believe-in/

]]> By: Kevin http://demockracy.com/palin-yahoo-email-hacked-posted-on-wikileaks/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Kevin Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:17:51 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=392#comment-44 Wow...There are claims that she uses this email because, unlike her government one, the contents can't be suppenoed. Wow…There are claims that she uses this email because, unlike her government one, the contents can’t be suppenoed.

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