What does the Sarah Palin e-mail hack say about Yahoo?
There’s an underlying issue in the debate raging about the reported hack into the Yahoo e-mail account of VP nominee Sarah Palin, and it actually has very little to do with the governor: Is there an e-mail vulnerability we should know about? Though a Fox News report from commentator Sean Hannity yesterday credited anonymous individuals who regularly post to a massive random image posting site called 4chan, with the revelation of screen shots of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s private e-mails — including some that may play a role in an ongoing investigation — the existence of the account’s location may actually have been first publicly disclosed by, of all places, the Washington Post. A September 10 article by reporter Karl Vick reported that Palin had apparently been using one or two Yahoo e-mail accounts to conduct state business, with concern being cast upon the relative security of any private transactions that took place there. But in reporting this, Vick actually posted the e-mail
