17 Sep 2008 19:23
In the news today: Governor Palin’s Yahoo! account was hacked. But could it be a hoax? Or could it be Act I of a staged stunt by Palin supporters? I won’t hazard a guess, but I will point out something strange: One of the eye-catching phrases in the message headers posted on wikileaks.org is “CONFIDENTIAL Ethics Matter.” That phrase is sure to get some attention, but for now (i.e., 15 minutes before this post) Google returns only five hits. Three were from today’s news, and the other two were from the .doc and .pdf versions of Alaska’s “Executive Branch Code of Ethics.” Crafty, or just plain weird?[Added at 19:42: The header data from one of the Palin family pictures on wikileaks.org says the photo was taken with a Blackberry Curve 8310. Blackberry…Blackberry… wasn’t that in the news yesterday, too?]