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Stephen Harper's e-mail distribution list got hacked on Sunday. The person or persons responsible sent out two e-mails: The first was a sort-of adorable faux confession that said stuff like: "My name is Stephen Harper. I am an ALBERTAN, here me roar! My goal is to make Canada America's 51st state and destroy health care that all Canadians cherish by infusing my propaganda with hard core ad hominem attacks." The second was a one-paragraph e-mail comparing Kosovo's independence with Quebec's. It's no "okay, poop is coming out," and certainly Palin comparison (hiyo!) to a much bigger e-mail hijack stateside you certainly heard about last week. But for those of you who want the sordid details (the allegedly Winnipegean culprit! the extremely serious government investigation! the potential Stephane Dion connection!), NOW has them, and Maclean's has been all over this since Sunday.
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this was not a "hack". the email list was open to this type of action due to how it was configured.
More info here: http://www.cbc.ca/searchengine/blog/2008/09/stephen_harper_spoofed_not_hac_1.html
And here:
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/4918
Unauthorized access is unauthorized access. Exploiting an open security hole to send fake e-mails is, by definition, a hack, even if it's not particularly grandiose or savvy.
agreed, but would you explain how sending an email to a public email address unauthorized access?
Easy: the person sending the e-mail was not supposed to be able to do it, but figured out a way to—however rudimentary or basic. If a building that you're not supposed to go into leaves their doors unlocked, your going inside still constitutes unauthorized entry.
Easy: the person sending the e-mail was not supposed to be able to do it, but figured out a way to—however rudimentary or basic. If a building that you're not supposed to go into leaves their doors unlocked, your going inside still constitutes unauthorized entry.
the person sending an email to a public email address was not supposed to be able to do it? that is what email addresses are intended for.
It's too bad the 'hack' wasn't put to better use, pointing out...
• Harper's hypocrisy with regard to fixed election dates and calling elections when they suit the party;
• the nearly total lack of free votes in parliament after criticising the Liberals of having a 'democratic deficit' and campaigning with the promise of free votes on all non-confidence issues;
• the secrecy behind the Canada-EU FTA wording that he got Big Business to approve but refuses to let Canadians know the details of until after the election despite campaigning in 2006 saying all treaty matters would be open for debate and public input;
• his administration's hate-on for Ontario;
• the echoing of McCain's "fundamentals of the economy are good" (Flaherty (or was it Harper himself?) said it too, after months of fear mongering that we were doomed);
• their rightwing social agenda;
• and Harper's appetite for kittens.