What’s the news here: the lefties hacked Norm Coleman’s donor database and published it,.or that they are trying to wrap themselves in a mantle of phony righteousness for doin it?<\/p>\n
John Hinderaker notes:<\/a><\/p>\n It’s impossible to say whether Wikileaks hacked Coleman’s site and is now making the information public out of frustration at lack of publicity, or whether a different Democratic Party group did the hacking and passed the information off to Wikileaks to be illegally disseminated. I replied to Wikileaks’ email asking for a name and telephone number and saying that I would like to interview them; needless to say, I didn’t get a response. Like so many leftists, they prefer to hide behind a cloak of anonymity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which is no surprise to any of us who’ve dealt with these people, ever.<\/p>\n A week or two after the liberal hacking of Coleman’s site took place, I got a notice from my bank that my credit card numbers had been stolen and patently improper charges were being rung up. As a result I had to cancel that credit card and get a new one. I didn’t know it at the time, but it appears that in all probability, I was one of the victims of the Democrats’ hacking of Coleman’s web site.<\/p>\n Just another day in contemporary American politics. Liberals break the law, violate their opponents’ privacy, either commit or facilitate theft, and meanwhile assure the rest of us that they did all of this because of their moral superiority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Lefties are claiming that it wasn’t a hack; Paul Schmelzer at the Minnesoros “Independent” <\/em>carries out his paymasters’ will, tells us “2+2=”orange””<\/a>:<\/p>\n the database was not revealed by hackers, according to IT professional Adria Richards, who was the first to share news of the unprotected file in late January.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not hacking,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t use any hacking tools. A browser was my tool.\u201d<\/p>\n Richards said she discovered the database by entering normcoleman.com, into OpenDNS\u2019 cache-check tool<\/a>, which gave her an IP address where the Web site lived.<\/p>\n Simply copying that address into a Firefox browser revealed the Web site directories for colemanforsenate.com.<\/p>\n Richards didn\u2019t download the database herself, but she posted a screen capture<\/a> of what she\u2019d found online after she made the discovery.\u00a0 An IT consultant\u00a0 for 10 years, she published her findings on her blog<\/a> to educate others about the risks of improperly managed websites, she said.<\/p>\n \u201cAll you needed was a Web browser,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s like I walked over to Norm Coleman\u2019s house and saw his door was open, took a photo of the open door and posted it on the Internet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ah.\u00a0 So the Democrats didn’t have to work especially hard to get the information and puiblish it.\u00a0 That excuses everything!<\/p>\n Attention, ethically-challenged liberals and Minnesoros “Independent” <\/em>staff (pardon the redundancy): if someone leaves the door to their house unlocked,and you walk inside, take out all their wife’s underwear and put it on and leave the building, you are still a thief and a cross-dresser<\/em>, even if the door wasn’t locked!<\/p>\n Most of us know this.\u00a0 The rest?<\/p>\n They’re anonymous leftybloggers, obviously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What’s the news here: the lefties hacked Norm Coleman’s donor database and published it,.or that they are trying to wrap themselves in a mantle of phony righteousness for doin it? 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