Schwarzenegger Hacking Claims Crumbling Like A Bunch Of Girlie Men
from the now-what-was-the-initial-leak-about-again? dept
When news that a tape of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had been secretly leaked, we were suspicious of the argument that somehow hacking was involved; it seemed much more likely that the governor's office was trying to obfuscate the issue. When it was revealed that Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial opponent, Phil Angelides, was behind the leak, the Angelides campaign said that the file was available on a public server, and that no hacking was involved. Now, a California radio DJ is corroborating this, saying that the site's been public for some time. So maybe there is a scandal after all: the governor's office has poor security practices -- though that's been obvious from the beginning.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Oh dear...
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Governator
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Racist Remarks?
Lighten up people, just because he's the Governor doesn't mean he's not entitled to make jokes in private.
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Smooth move numbnuts...
Anyway, I have to ask myself why on earth you'd upload something as incriminating as this to a public webserver. Was the IT guy smoking crack or something? I know folks like to hang their dirty laundry out on public blogs and YouTube or what not, but your the govenor for god sakes! Don't you have people who's sole purpose in life is to scrub all the media releases of embarassing items? Arnold, I think you need to terminate them!
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Re: Smooth move numbnuts...
You'd be suprised at how unskilled many of the IT people who get hired by the State of California are. Unfortunately, this sort of thing doesn't suprise me.
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Ok
He said she is hot becasue she has black and latino blood.
Big deal, LOL
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Open Invitation
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on the other hand isnt a public serverlike a park? (every one welcome?)
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Illegal to leave house unlocked? No.
No. Depending on which state you live in, it may be illegal to leave your keys in the car (California comes to mind), but that is up to the state. I know of no states that make it illegal to leave your house unlocked -- and just because my house is unlocked, you don't have the right to wander in.
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He's against the constitution
http://www.arnoldexposed.com/
And before you start attacking me or the website, please do your research and respond with intelligent arguments.
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Re: He's against the constitution
And before you start attacking me or the website, please do your research and respond with intelligent arguments.
Chill. Saying something like that is borderline flamebait.
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Re: He's against the constitution
When it it was being discussed that Arnold couldn't run for President because he is not American born, it made news. For a week or two. There is no current story. There is no push to change the constitution. The latest article about on USA Today, which is touted on this bogus piece of shit website's homepage, is from 2004, you fucking imbecile.
Do us all a favor and jump in front of a train.
You DIPSHIT
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Uh, can we get him/her to do something other than jumping in front of a train? It really screws up my commute and besides, a lot of smart peeps ride the train...
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You're the terminator! Shouldn't you be all about security and protection? You're lucky the comments you made weren't exceptionally vulgar or else there could have been some major detriments to your reputation. Nevertheless, as harmless and lighthearted as you may have been, you really should be more careful about your personals....
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Analogy, Shmanalogy
...Crumbling Like A Bunch Of Girlie Men
I think I would have used wilting or folding or wimping
Crumbling suggests visions of gingerbread men.
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Don't you get it? IT WAS PUBLISHED!
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Re: Open Invitation
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He's against the constitution
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Re: He's against the constitution
Higher Taxes...Surplus without raising taxes
More taxes...More schools without raising taxes
Even MORE taxes...Extending the subway in LA without raising taxes
Lets see, I like that Schwarzenegger is open, I like that he's rich, I like that he tells everything how it is, I like that he's a very very very public figure, I like that he's not afraid to be contriversal...
Angelides is a joke, California is doomed and I'm moving out if Angelides gets elected.
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Something Doesn't Add up though...
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Re: Something Doesn't Add up though...
O.K. then, why leak it if it was on the Gov's public web site ? Why not just go to the site yourself LA Times ? The site was hacked !
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yeah the
nice post.
Also to anonymous coward right now, you sound like an utter tool, I can't wait until Governor Phil is elected and you leave the state so that there's one less idiot.
toodles.
-C.
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Enough of this PC Crap. Arnold is not a racist
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