Well it made me laugh, at least.
You know how Sarah Palin’s highly secure, outside-the-purview-of-official-subpoena-or-FOIA, Important State Business, Yahoo! email account was hacked this week, I assume. I have some issues with hacking in general, but if somehow some Important State Business that should (logically if not necessarily legally) have been kept on secure, official, alaska.gov servers rather than insecure, public, Yahoo! servers (and I mean all business conducted in the name of the government is supposed to be saved and archived and available to the citizens, and this whole “I did it on my BlackBerry so you can’t see it” line is just BULLSHIT–who’s paying your salary, again, babe? and while we’re at it, please explain why the government, which pays for a staffed 14,400 sq.ft. governor’s mansion (complete with tanning bed) for you, is supposed to pay you a $60 per diem for you to stay in your own personal house?), if this data has been hacked and exposed, apparently by someone who was able to guess or replace a (clearly, highly secure) password, I’m in the SERVES YOU RIGHT camp.
(I’m clearly in need of some DFW footnotes here, but I mean, there’s nothing on my personal email that has anything to do with any official business, and if someone feels like hacking my internet-based email accounts, it’s going to piss me off, but it’s not going to reveal any sensitive information or have any bearing on anyone else’s sensitive information. My face won’t be covered in the kind of egg Gov. Palin’s is, for example. I keep my confidential office stuff confidential. I’m SMRT like that.)
Bill O’Reilly, predictably, had a freaking meltdown over this, amusingly (and erroneously, need I add) equating a fence of stolen goods with a publisher of illegally-obtained documents. (Bill never heard of Watergate I guess.)
So Bill O’Reilly’s website (and apparently it had no security whatever) has been hacked. Now watch him try to take down the publisher.
Thanks for the laughs, hackers 
