Posts by SHG
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Alastair Thompson,
JK was secretly calling DPF every night
"Secretly"? What was he supposed to do, announce each call at a press conference?
It was a campaign. Farrar was a pollster employed by the National party. Frankly I'd be surprised if Key didn't speak to him on on hourly basis around the clock.
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I just assume as a matter of course that all journalists are bottom-feeding amoral News of the World scum until proven otherwise.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Sacha,
Craig Ranapia: "Slater threatened to blackmail Rodney Hide over "dirty texts"
Sacha: "That's the claim yes - backed up I expect by evidence."
Seriously, do you realise how laughably bizarro-world implausible that is? It couldn't get any nuttier if you introduced the Illuminati or TEH MOLE MEN.
A blogger and a National strategist blackmailing a Minister of the Crown and leader of a political party to force his retirement? Slater and Lusk would have been arrested and sentenced to jail terms in the time it took Hide to stop laughing.
That Hide-blackmail story is the bit that stands out as revealing "OK, some of this stuff is just plain made-up".
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Gotta say, a totally unauthenticated email reproduced in a book after being supplied to the author by a totally anonymous source is hardly what I'd call "proof".
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Chris Waugh,
But no one has ever produced the evidence to question the veracity of the content of Hager's books.
I seem to recall Michael Bassett claiming that emails attributed to him in THM were fabrications.
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What if I went nowhere near the wide-open Labour house and just told Google to send me copies of the copies that it had made?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
If someone pushes on a door, finds it’s unlocked, and walks through it to take whatever they can find inside, it seems a bit odd to say “well, of course if they leave it open..."
Oh yay, theft analogies.
How about if the person makes a duplicate of whatever he finds and leaves the original behind?
What if the house has a talking door, and all you need to do knock on it say "give me a complete inventory of the contents of this house"? And then say "oh that thing in the living room, make a copy and send it to me"?
How about if an automated house-contents inventorying service had done that for you and all you needed to do was say "show me your cached version of the house inventory and then send me a copy of that thing in the living room"?
Back in June 2011 this link to a house-contents inventorying service would spit out Labour-internal information that would make you shit bricks. Names, usernames, passwords, internal SQL configuration files, you name it. I know, I tried it.
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Ahealthyhomeshealthykiwis.org.nz
That's all it took. A Google search.
Did Google "hack the Labour server"? Did I?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Balance,
A hacked server can provide a privileged platform to attack a client machine, typically a site admin's personal computer, which in turn could spill the beans for log in credentials to other services
Yeah I thought of that, but compromising a webserver in order to copy a keylogger to a client PC when it logs in to do administration and then gain access to mail/FB is a whole other level of intrusion. Is the DDOS just a smokescreen?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Russell Brown,
Danyl nominates the hacking of Labour's computers and abuse of of SIS information as the two big takeaways so far.
If Danyl's #1 is the Drupal clusterfuck that we all laughed at back in June 2011, I can't see - without having read anything in the book of course - how that counts as anyone hacking the site. It was wide open to the Internet and all that shit was visible to anyone who cared to look.
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“some of us have the site”
There is no sensible reason for correspondence to have ever been anywhere near the site. I can't see a connection between "site hacked" and "access to emails".