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Strange Ironies

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 10, 2008

“Then I saw a very interesting blog by Alan Shimel about how
Sarah Palin’s email hacker was convicted. The irony is that Alan
had exactly the same thing happen to him. Someone defamed his
character by publishing all his emails online. Has anyone even
arrested his hacker? No. The irony is that Shimel actually cares
about security. Funny thing, though — Palin had her email
compromised, Barack Obama had his Website compromised, and John
McCain doesn’t even use email. I’d love a representative who was at
least somewhat up on 21st century technology issues, or at least
one who hired someone who was to take care of their security.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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