Yeah, yeah, we all know the rapist's favorite excuse ... "If she hadn't been wearing that skirt and being so nice, I never would've touched her, but she looked so fine I had to rape her. It's her own d*mn fault!"
Apparently, being in the public eye and having an email account is enough to justify having said email hacked ... if you're Sarah Palin. This from AP reporter Ted Bridis, with a hat tip to Michelle Malkin:
From: “Bridis, Ted” TBridis@ap.org
Subject: RE: Palin’s email theft
If Gov. Palin hadn’t been using a consumer-level Yahoo! account (more than one, actually) this crime wouldn’t have happened because the hacker exploited the service’s “forgot-my-password” mechanism, which is inherently insecure.
Previously disclosed e-mails indicate her administration embraced Yahoo! Accounts, among other reasons, because of questions over whether personal e-mail accounts are covered under Alaska’s Open Records Act. Palin’s critics in Alaska were poring over records they had obtained from the governor’s office of official internal e-mail communications and causing political hay.
The issues are inextricably linked.
Hey, Reporter Bridis! (No polite honorific from me, dipschizz.) Maybe you don't know that rape isn't about sex, it's about power, exercised at the expense of the innocent. You probably weren't around a lot of computer people at the dawn of the computer age, but I was. I saw the first hackers up close. Hacking isn't about reading the (possible) contents of the email account, it's about disrupting the system; i.e., it's an egregious exercise of power.
You know all about that, don't you? Revealing damaging information, like Todd Palin's email address and license plate, is a nasty exercise of power at the expense of innocents, Reporter!
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