Romney Hacked

[classicman]

and then the hacker writes an apology.

To Mitt Romney,

The time between when I first saw the email address in the WSJ and my first sending in the tip about my hacking was only a half hour at most. During this time I never stopped to consider what it was I was doing, it was only after I had got in to your account, after I sent my tip that I really started to consider what I had just done. While I was in I had thought about the tip I had sent in, about my use of the word 'hack,' my mind drifted to the British phone hacking scandal which I have been following closely. It was then I was hit with a terrible revelation, what I had done was no different then the actions of the tabloid journalists that had horrified me so.

So I tried to fix what I had done as best I could. There was no way for me to undo the fact I had illegally broken into your private accounts but I could stop the spread of the breech. I shutdown the Dropbox account and deleted all the files that I had downloaded and then, when I found myself unable to shutdown the email I changed the password and and security question so that no one else could get in the way I had. Finally I have not and will not tell anyone what I have seen.

But none of this changes what I've done. I engaged in an egregious violation of another persons privacy, a violation made all the worse by way of your being a public figure who has so little privacy to begin with, a figure for whom what privacy can be found is doubtless a valuable gift. A gift I took away. For this I am sorry. When I hacked in it struck me as funny at first, but now... I have never felt as bad about something I have done as I feel right now.

I don't know if you'll take anything from this message. I wouldn't blame you for one second if you don't. I just want you to know how I've been feeling about this.

Why do we get the feeling that the hacker's mom made him write this?

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[infinite monkey]

I love the comments under the article. This one gave me a chuckle. It's so not tw's writing style but his love of MBAs is the same.

@CharlesKayeMBA - fine, give us an intelligent well thought out reply.

Oh and ...gee...another MBA..there's a f\/cking worthwhile degree. So, Chuck, who are you trying to swindle this week?

If anyone ever introduced themselves to me as an MBA I'm pretty certain I would punch them in the face.

People like to say liberals are the reason the country is in the mess it is in...or maybe it is conservatives.

But if you look at the timeline of the decline of the middle class you can pretty much see a correlation to the number of MBAs.

F\/cking worthless people MBAs are.

[classicman]

Glad someone else reads them. I find the comments far more entertaining than the articles most times.