Weinergate

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As you may know Rep. Anthony Weiner and his, um, fans, blamed Yfrog (i.e. imageshack) for the mysterious tweet and photo of Oscar Meyer Weiner when Weiner said he couldn’t say “with certitude” that the picture wasn’t his. Of course, being highly sensitive of any security concerns Yfrog responded by suspending all e-mail uploads until it could fully check security. On Friday, Yfrog announced the results of its investigation:

After confirming that our email upload feature has not been compromised in any way – it is now active again (from 5 pm PST today). We appreciate your patience as we work to assure user safety and security. Please always maintain secure passwords and do not share email secret PINs with anyone. Please contact us at is-support@imageshack.us with any questions, if you want your PINs changed or disabled.
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They explain on the security front on their blog:


At yfrog, we take security very seriously. We monitor all the activity on our site and network 24/7 to make sure we secure our services, especially the photos and videos of our users. Our commitment is to protect our users’ photos and make sure they are never lost, deleted by accident, or compromised in any way.
Email Upload Security Explained

The email upload feature was introduced as a convenience for users to send emails with their photos as attachments. The yfrog email PIN is given to the user for the sole purpose of uploading photos only to yfrog. As a private email PIN, it should be treated as confidential information, just like passwords.

To secure further, the user should:

not share the email PIN with others.
not include other recipients in the emails sent to yfrog to upload photos.
not forward to other recipients the emails sent to the email PIN to upload photos to yfrog.

Why we Disabled Email Upload

At yfrog, we constantly evaluate our internal security mechanisms across all the facets of our service. Even though our email upload feature has not been compromised or broken into, we are taking this opportunity to evaluate the feature and secure it even further.
Security is Important to Us

Yfrog serves millions of users and over 2 billion requests worldwide every day with minimal or no attacks or disruptions. As we grow, we will continue to take every measure possible to secure our services so that our users’ photos and videos are protected.
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Long story short. A person cannot upload any photos to Yfrog using just a username, as some have claimed. They also say that their e-mail upload system has NOT been hacked or compromised.

So that raises two questions, either he did it or gave someone the password/pin and uploaded the picture. Otherwise if it's truly a hacking incident, and that security was compromised, it should be investigated. Refusing the investigation could very well likely lead to the conclusion that he had something to do with it in one way or another.
 
Scandal is nothing than kokonut being whine about everything, even he wants more democrats to be out of office as he can make his wishes.
 
kokonut said:
A hacking attempt into a politician's account does not warrant an investigation? I agree, this isn't the Pentagon. Where do you draw a line when an investigation is not warranted in a hacking attempt of a politician's online internet account?
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I'd draw the line at whether there is a serious possibility for when there is sensitive information at stake.

kokonut said:
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Long story short. A person cannot upload any photos to Yfrog using just a username, as some have claimed. They also say that their e-mail upload system has NOT been hacked or compromised.
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As a computer-y person, their response didn't exactly verify this to me, since they didn't explain what would happen if someone merely brute-forced their email server. That having been said, this article does seem to put that particular explanation to rest, since it actually does give a technologically sound reasoning, lol.

kokonut said:
So that raises two questions, either he did it or gave someone the password/pin and uploaded the picture. Otherwise if it's truly a hacking incident, and that security was compromised, it should be investigated. Refusing the investigation could very well likely lead to the conclusion that he had something to do with it in one way or another.
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Ignoring the "pin" part (as mentioned above, that still seems like it could easily be brute-forced, but still doesn't appear to be what happened anyways), this is still simply a Twitter account. ie "something that isn't actually important".
 
StSapphire said:
I'd draw the line at whether there is a serious possibility for when there is sensitive information at stake.



As a computer-y person, their response didn't exactly verify this to me, since they didn't explain what would happen if someone merely brute-forced their email server. That having been said, this article does seem to put that particular explanation to rest, since it actually does give a technologically sound reasoning, lol.



Ignoring the "pin" part (as mentioned above, that still seems like it could easily be brute-forced, but still doesn't appear to be what happened anyways), this is still simply a Twitter account. ie "something that isn't actually important".
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This seems to be a problem with a poster not having the sophisticated knowledge that allows understanding of the methods used by hackers. If one had a "pin" or a "password" supplied to them, it would not be called "hacking".:giggle:
 
jillio said:
This seems to be a problem with a poster not having the sophisticated knowledge that allows understanding of the methods used by hackers. If one had a "pin" or a "password" supplied to them, it would not be called "hacking".:giggle:
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Also of note - "hacking" is the entirely wrong term, too. The correct verb would be "cracking", which is the term for acquiring unauthorized access or any number of other harmful computer activities. "Hacking" is basically a synonym for "tinkering", specifically when used with computers.

Of course, anyone who starts talking about hacking/cracking should also actually learn how to do it before they start talking about what can and can't be done. As someone who has experience in that domain, it's honestly embarrassing what the general public thinks can and cannot be done with computers.
 
I stand corrected on my use of the terminology!:giggle::ty:
 
StSapphire said:
Also of note - "hacking" is the entirely wrong term, too. The correct verb would be "cracking", which is the term for acquiring unauthorized access or any number of other harmful computer activities. "Hacking" is basically a synonym for "tinkering", specifically when used with computers.

Of course, anyone who starts talking about hacking/cracking should also actually learn how to do it before they start talking about what can and can't be done. As someone who has experience in that domain, it's honestly embarrassing what the general public thinks can and cannot be done with computers.
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Hacking:
Informal
a. To write or refine computer programs skillfully.
b. To use one's skill in computer programming to gain illegal or unauthorized access to a file or network: hacked into the company's intranet.
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hack - definition of hack by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Hack - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
 
jillio said:
I stand corrected on my use of the terminology!:giggle::ty:
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Haha, no worries. It's a pet peeve, kinda like when I see people using computers in movies and I want to throw a firebomb at the screen.

kokonut said:
Hacking:

hack - definition of hack by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Hack - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
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I'm well aware of the common usage, which is where dictionaries get their definitions. And I also know that language evolves, so I won't even bother pointing out that the terms have changed, but that doesn't make it worthless to try and fight back against having negative connotations associated with a label you apply to yourself.
 
Weiner is on CNN right now. After a photo was posted. :lol:
 
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Weiner admits to having sent the photo. Ok. He says he sent it as a joke, and says “I’ve made terrible mistakes.” He’s obviously quite visibly shaken. And has admitted to “inappropriate conversations” with six women online over the past three years. This includes a few after he was married. He was asked if he would resign. He said, "No."

Ok. Admits to having inappropriate chats but says that the underwear pic was sent as a joke? Okayyy.

Breitbart is claiming on having an (unrevealed) explicit photo of him, reporter asks Weiner if this is false. Weiner say's, paraphrasing - No, I can’t say that that’s false.

Hmmm....


Reporter asks if he wants to apologize to Breitbart when Weiner's people tried to frame him as making up the underwear pic. Weiner dodges the question and says that he apologizes to everyone in the media. Reporter presses him again on the apology question. Weiner finally apologizes to Breitbart. This probably means that there's a damning and potentially career ending photo of Weiner. Maybe that's why he was seen as visibly shaken?

Also, Weiner could not confirm the ages of the women he chatted with.

Uh oh....

Some more...

Rep. Anthony Weiner: 'The Picture Was of Me and I Sent It' - ABC News

Also, a surreal question of the day to Weiner when he was leaving..... “Were you fully erect, Congressman?”

I'd say his career is fini.
 
kokonut said:
Weiner admits to having sent the photo. Ok. He says he sent it as a joke, and says “I’ve made terrible mistakes.” He’s obviously quite visibly shaken. And has admitted to “inappropriate conversations” with six women online over the past three years. This includes a few after he was married. He was asked if he would resign. He said, "No."

Ok. Admits to having inappropriate chats but says that the underwear pic was sent as a joke? Okayyy.

Breitbart is claiming on having an (unrevealed) explicit photo of him, reporter asks Weiner if this is false. Weiner say's, paraphrasing - No, I can’t say that that’s false.

Hmmm....


Reporter asks if he wants to apologize to Breitbart when Weiner's people tried to frame him as making up the underwear pic. Weiner dodges the question and says that he apologizes to everyone in the media. Reporter presses him again on the apology question. Weiner finally apologizes to Breitbart. This probably means that there's a damning and potentially career ending photo of Weiner. Maybe that's why he was seen as visibly shaken?

Also, Weiner could not confirm the ages of the women he chatted with.

Uh oh....

Some more...

Rep. Anthony Weiner: 'The Picture Was of Me and I Sent It' - ABC News

Also, a surreal question of the day to Weiner when he was leaving..... “Were you fully erect, Congressman?”

I'd say his career is fini.
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It won't matters because Weiner is not your house of representative and rest of your post are junk, IMO.
 
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