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Congressman Weiner's inappropriate tweet

Unabogie said:
That's exactly what happened. I sent an email to my yFrog account from a completely different email address. And it appeared in my list of photos and posted to my Twitter account without any action from me.
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Which would not really be a hack? More of an exploit.

It doesn't sound like the prank was actually illegal if they used this exploit. The responsible party is yFrog or twitter.

So, his not raising a criminal stink now seems to be the reasonable response?
 
Dr. Keith said:
Which would not really be a hack? More of an exploit.
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Yeah, this kinda bugs me in these facebook days, people use the term for anything involving computers. I was half expecting something dumber than the Palin "hack".

Nice cooperative work Unabogie and Newtons Bit :) !

I am surprised this thread made it so long with no new information. Interesting how the political sides correlated with poster opinions.[/viewfromaloftinivorytower]
 
Cleon said:
This is what she had to say, from CNN:
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Interesting

The woman, identified as a 21-year-old college student, subsequently issued a statement to the New York Daily News in which she said she never had met Weiner though she followed him on Twitter and had once jokingly referred to him as her "boyfriend" in a tweet.

She indicated that the post had come from someone other than Weiner, and added that "this person had harassed me many times."

"I am not sure whether or not this letter will alleviate any future harassment," said the statement by Gennette Nicole Cordova, published Sunday by the Daily News. "I also do not have a clear understanding as to how or why exactly I am involved in this fiasco. I do know that my life has been seriously impacted by speculation and faulty allegations. My reputation has been called into question by those who lack the character to report the facts."
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Tsukasa Buddha said:
Yeah, this kinda bugs me in these facebook days, people use the term for anything involving computers. I was half expecting something dumber than the Palin "hack".

Nice cooperative work Unabogie and Newtons Bit :) !

I am surprised this thread made it so long with no new information. Interesting how the political sides correlated with poster opinions.[/viewfromaloftinivorytower]
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Just puttin' the E in JREF, is all.
 
Wiener is my Congressman. He has emailed me several times in response to emails I have sent him. He even sent me a physical letter years ago.

I honestly, could care less about this whole issue. Why do you?
 
Seems to me that the only wrong-doing that can be confirmed is on the part of the "patriot76" scuzzball and that little half-man who announced it to the world. I hope Weiner and Cordova take them both to the cleaners.
 
Do we even know if any of Weiner's staff has access to his twitter account?

Is it possible that he's being evasive until he figures out exactly what happened?

Is it likely that his constituency couldn't care less about what happened?
 
Unabogie said:
That's exactly what happened. I sent an email to my yFrog account from a completely different email address. And it appeared in my list of photos and posted to my Twitter account without any action from me.
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Do you happen to have Rush Limbaugh's acount? :)
 
Neally said:
I can't think of any way to send a tweet with someones account without having access to their password. Can you?
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Despite the fact the I think the yfrog issues already answers the relevant question - as far as straight up tweets - firesheep will do nicely to grab a session token is anyone is using public wifi and does not check the "always use https" box.
 
Newtons Bit said:
You are correct. I just added a picture of minecraft to your yfrog account and it looks identical to the format of the bulge picture. You put @test in both the subject line and the body of the email. If you do just the body it will look like you're tweeting that picture to the person in your email body. And it's identical to what happened to the Rep.

Case closed. The man is innocent I say!
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One extremely important weakness in this argument:

Sounds pretty bad right? Only, no. It isn’t. A yfrog email address is composed of your twitter username, a dot, and a randomly generated series of characters that look like made up words (although some of the ones I’ve seen today were actually just Latin words.)
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Here's a real yfrog email address:

Tom_Maguire.zyxor@yfrog.com
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Now, if you have that zyxor bit, it would seem to be relatively trivial to post a picture to Tom's account. But the question is how somebody would know that. As you can see when you click the pix that Tom posted, it does not show up. If you go to the link that came from his twitter feed, you see the first part of the email address but not those five letters that come afterwards. I assume you got unabogie's email address at yfrog privately, but you can see the problem there; presumably Congressman Weiner was not giving out his yfrog email address. Getting those five characters could be pretty tough; if we assume they are only letters, there are about 11 million combinations. So it looks like we are back to those nefarious haxxors.
 
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Maddow: "Is that photo of you?"
Weiner: "Can I say I wish?" (continues in reply saying that he could be a shopped version of him, but it's obvious he's saying "I'm not that 'gifted'").

Also, smoking gun right here
 
leftysergeant said:
You need to become a little more proficient in legalese.

You also need to find a clip with a little more context. We cannot even be certain what the interviewer actually asked him.

I have seen slime boy Breitbart provide more useful video evidence.

This aint evidence at all.
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There is no doubt in that Russert interview he refused to deny it was a photo of him. He used plenty of weasel words and was asked three times, and every time refused to answer directly.

Now, perhaps this adds plausibility to the story his account was hacked. He has a computer full of nice glam shots of himself like this, he was hacked, and someone sent that one out. If I were him, not denying it was me, but not going into detail about what pictures of himself he may keep around seems like it might be the least embarassing middle ground.
 
Noztradamus said:
I'll take evasive responses for $100, Alex
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I'll admit his answers to this question are oddly evasive, but what possible nefarious motive could he have for being evasive?

He's already denying he tweeted the picture and had a relationship with the woman it was sent to, so why wouldn't he then deny the picture was of him?
 
Brainster said:
One extremely important weakness in this argument:

Now, if you have that zyxor bit, it would seem to be relatively trivial to post a picture to Tom's account. But the question is how somebody would know that. As you can see when you click the pix that Tom posted, it does not show up. If you go to the link that came from his twitter feed, you see the first part of the email address but not those five letters that come afterwards. I assume you got unabogie's email address at yfrog privately, but you can see the problem there; presumably Congressman Weiner was not giving out his yfrog email address. Getting those five characters could be pretty tough; if we assume they are only letters, there are about 11 million combinations. So it looks like we are back to those nefarious haxxors.
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Cannonfire seems to have explained how the yfrog e-mail address could be leaked:
the chance that somewhere along the way that weiners yfrog address had been leaked? pretty damn high. it would happen if weiner or an aide simply forwarded a pic he emailed to his yfrog account to anyone else (thus showing the yfrog email address in the chain).
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This would make it a lot easier to acquire then his password(s).
 
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