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Congressman Weiner's inappropriate tweet

Ziggurat said:
Who is this "we"? The image was at the link in my original post. Anyone who followed that link would have seen it.
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By "we," I mean people who think that Breitbart manufactured it, which would probably be a very large part of the population of persons with IQs over room temp at Point Barrow and who know who that nadless little "reporter" is.
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
Credit card fraud is also a crime, but the two times in my life I was the victim of it, I just contacted the bank (actually for one, the bank contacted me because they suspected a charge was fraudulent). I never called the police or called for an investigation.
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Because the chances of them catching anyone were negligible (though I wouldn't be surprised if the bank contacted the police). That's not the case here. The police (or FBI, or whoever) are going to spend a lot more resources catching someone like this, and for good reason.

Again, if Weiner did do what is alleged, it's not a crime, right?
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Correct. As long as he doesn't file a police report. Which is why filing a police report would have been so useful to his cause, and why it looks so bad that he isn't.

If he didn't, I think it's reasonable for him to be concerned about looking like a cry-baby.
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I don't. Especially since he's lawyering up. That's hardly taking it like a man.

As someone suggested, the truth might be somewhere in between the two. He may have been having some kind of relationship with the coed that some people consider "inappropriate" (but apparently not the 2 consenting adults involved), AND the photo could have been sent by the hacker and not by Weiner.
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I think the reverse (there IS no relationship, and he sent the photo) is much more likely.
 
How hard is it to "hack" a twitter account?

Hacking into the servers and stealing the account information for this prank is unlikely for a variety of reasons. I don't think I need to list them, do I?

Twitter doesn't have security questions like yahoo does. The "hack" couldn't have been done in the same way that Palin's account was hacked.

Someone could have placed a key-logger (or trojon, etc) on Rep. Weiner's computer and recorded the password that way. If that's the case, Rep. Weiner should god damned well have reported it as that person could conceivably have access to everything on Rep. Weiner's computer and any server/bank account he uses. The hacker has to find a way to get the key-logger installed on the Rep.'s machine and that's not all that easy. It requires the Rep not having any security software and being a moron. Or the Rep. machine was already compromised with a common key-logger and the hacker knew the Rep's IP address. It's possible, but it would require the Rep. being a moron and the "hacker/script kiddie" being exceptionally lucky.

A spy could have used some espionage skills and James Bonded his way into the room with the computer and put it in that way. Yea...

The hacker could have guessed the Rep. password. However Twitter doesn't allow people to use a password that is incredibly easy to guess. It does allow straight numbers so maybe the Rep. used his own birthday or pi or something super easy to guess for his password. And twitter doesn't ban ip's for repeated failed login attempts. So this is possible, but it involves the Rep. being a moron.

Oh, and you can log in to yfrog with your twitter account. So the people who are claiming that the yfrog image was photoshopped but the twitter account was actually hacked are full of :rule10.
 
leftysergeant said:
By "we," I mean people who think that Breitbart manufactured it
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The story didn't originate with Breitbart. If someone manufactured it, there's no reason to think he had any hand in that manufacturing.

Just like Dan Rather didn't forge those TANG documents.

Furthermore, you asked about the photo in question. Whether or not it's "manufactured", that's still the photo in question.
 
Do we even know for sure the photo was sent from Weiner's account to the coed? (I thought she denied having seen the photo until someone else posted it. See Cleon's post #15.)

That is, the prank might have been done with no hacking. It could just be a fake story.
 
Ziggurat said:
I don't. Especially since he's lawyering up. That's hardly taking it like a man.
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Yes, it is. It may be that sissy boy Breitbart just slapped the wrong kid on the playground. If the stroy is true, Wiener has every right to offer a legal defense. If it is bogus, he will need a good lawyer to give punk boy Breitbart that hell he deserves.

I think the reverse (there IS no relationship, and he sent the photo) is much more likely.
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That the bimbo is associated in anyway with Breitbart makes it about 99.9% more likely that it is a set-up.
 
Ziggurat said:
The story didn't originate with Breitbart. If someone manufactured it, there's no reason to think he had any hand in that manufacturing.
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Then who did break it? The noise I have heardcoming out of that mewling simpleton's sewage outfall suggested that he was the one who first broke it.
 
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JoeTheJuggler said:
Do we even know for sure the photo was sent from Weiner's account to the coed? (I thought she denied having seen the photo until someone else posted it. See Cleon's post #15.)

That is, the prank might have been done with no hacking. It could just be a fake story.
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You can go to the photo here and see that there used to be a photo on Rep. Weiner's account and was originally posted to yfrog 3 days and 22 hours ago. That's about the right time. yfrog and twitter accounts are also linked. I find it highly unlikely that a "hacker" would have access to the Rep.'s yfrog account and not his twitter account.
 
Newtons Bit said:
You can go to the photo here and see that there used to be a photo on Rep. Weiner's account and was originally posted to yfrog 3 days and 22 hours ago. That's about the right time. yfrog and twitter accounts are also linked. I find it highly unlikely that a "hacker" would have access to the Rep.'s yfrog account and not his twitter account.
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I still don't see evidence that a hacker had access to Weiner's yfrog account. All I see is a page that shows there used to be a photo for a user named "RepWeiner" (and I assume that account belongs to Weiner) that has been removed.

It could be as I suggested: Weiner and the coed were doing something that Weiner wouldn't like to be made public (maybe even just relatively innocent flirting), and someone who learned of it or suspected it created the story that Weiner sent this photo to the coed.

But again, even if Weiner did just what some right-wingers are alleging, he committed no crime. Wishing to keep his private life private is not a crime.
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
I still don't see evidence that a hacker had access to Weiner's yfrog account. All I see is a page that shows there used to be a photo for a user named "RepWeiner" (and I assume that account belongs to Weiner) that has been removed.

It could be as I suggested: Weiner and the coed were doing something that Weiner wouldn't like to be made public (maybe even just relatively innocent flirting), and someone who learned of it or suspected it created the story that Weiner sent this photo to the coed.

But again, even if Weiner did just what some right-wingers are alleging, he committed no crime. Wishing to keep his private life private is not a crime.
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That's pretty dang outlandish. There's absolutely nothing suggesting that's the case. But suppose it were true. It makes the Rep. a proven liar. And a person who makes up stories about people committing crimes against him to avoid taking responsibility is pathetic. Now I know that most politicians are liars. But I think as Americans we can hold our lying politicians to a higher standard when it comes to their lying.
 
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JoeTheJuggler said:
Could be.

But it could also be that he was afraid of it being seen as a petty-minded overreaction. (Someone trying to make it a big deal only because he has the authority of a Congressman.)
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A congressman weiner hacking sounds pretty serious
 
We really need to see all the facts before we go off half-cocked about this.
 
We need to know how the woman learned about the picture. We need to know how slime boy Breitbart heard about it. We need to see whether the woman was exchanging tweets with Weiner and what was in them. Do we have anby of that right now?

If "no" on any of these, we have a double handful of squat.
 
If the woman actually didn't see the picture until other people linked to it then there is definitely more to this story.
 
I'm sure people are going balls out to figure this one out.
 
If nobody announced this in the press before Breitbart barfed it up, I think it safe to assume that it is BS, planted by one of the maggots in his gang.

I think Weiner lawyered up mainly to prepare to launch a law suit that will nail Breitbart's peanut-like danglies to the wall.
 
Well there's probably a long, hard road ahead before anything like that could happen.
 
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