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Sarah Palin’s yahoo email account hacked & posted on wikileaks

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

The hackers managed to infiltrate Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo email account, and posted a number of the Alaska governor’s emails and two family photos to the wikileaks.org website. A group calling themselves “Anonymous” claimed responsibility for the breach.

Among the emails posted on the wikileaks site is a message sent from Palin to the vice-governor of Alaska, Sean Parnell, who is currently seeking election to Congress.

The hacking comes at a time when Palin is suspected of using her personal email account for conducting public affairs in Alaska.

According to law, all messages relating to the official functions of governor must be archived and not destroyed, but allows for personal messages to be destroyed.

Palin is currently under investigation in Alaska for abuse of power. The investigation centers on whether Palin tried to fire a state trooper who had recently divorced from her sister.

Palin has said she will not to cooperate with the investigation of abuse of power investigation.

iphone activation : All of the systems are down

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Many people who had lined up for hours to buy the coveted Apple iPhone 3G today walked out of stores with their new phones still not working.

Apple requires customers to activate the iPhone 3G in stores where they were purchased. This was not a requirement for the original iPhone, which was released a little more than a year ago.

“so, I’m stuck on Accessing iTunes Store as well. If I select the iTunes Store on the left of itunes, it connects no problem. Select the iphone, however, and it goes right back to trying to access the itunes store. I suspect that is part of the update/activation process, as it doesn’t even show the initial tabbed pane to select sync options, nor does it say my name’s iphone, it just says iPhone.”

Here reply from apple guy :

“Yes Kathylee there seems to be an overload at the itunes server understandably. When you get to the point that it says “Accessing iTunes Store…” you can eject your iPhone and browse, install and start using iPhone apps from the App Store on your iPhone. I would suggest connecting your iPhone to iTunes later in the day when the servers have had a chance to clear their bottleneck.”

This is according to a discussion thread in apple web site in progress. here