VP candidate gets Hacked

Vice President nominee, Sarah Palin's yahoo e-mail was hacked last week . The FBI used forensics techniques to trace the Hacker's IP address to David Kernell's(the Son of the Democrat Tennessee State Representative, Mike Kernell) computer at his apartment, who was using an Internet anonymity service. The FBI searched the log files of the service and found Kernell visiting Yahoo's mail service, resetting Palin's password via a brute force attack ,and announcing results of the break-in on a Web site where the hacking was first revealed.

I found this article most approporiate for the research I am conducting on discovering the identities of attackers who intrude into computer networks. This article does raise a few quetions, such as how does one discover the identity of an attacker, who uses an anonymity service and will this be treated as a digital Watergate?














http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26838582

The flood

Throughout the weekend, Northwest Indiana has been bombarded with rainstorm after rainstorm.On Friday night, the section of Calumet Ave. that lies in front of the restaurant that I manage during the third shift became saturated with about 6 to 8 inches of water. When I returned Saturday evening, the water had mostly dissipated, despite the constant rainfall. When I left the restaurant Sunday Morning around 7 , the status of the road was similar to what it was during the evening, however hell broke loose after I had returned home to get some rest. When I woke up, I heard about the Little calumet overflowing and later on found that all Northward local roads from Calumet Ave. to Cline Ave. had been closed.
My family and I went initally to the Kenndey Ave.bridgehead in hopes of finding it still open (we thought their was a possiblity that Purdue Calumet would still be open tomorrow and my father was looking for a way to get to Mittal Steel), since the Kennedy Ave. bridge was constructed to be higher off the Little Calumet than other local bridgeheads. To our surprise, Kennedy Ave. was also blocked off . We decided to see why it was blocked off and parked at a local bowling alley, when we walked to the bridgehead we saw several mounds of dirt placed directly in the middle of the road and alongside a recently constructed cement wall that protects a local subdivision from the Little Calumet. When we reached the bridgehead, I saw why the road was blocked. The water level was nearly equal to that of the bottom of the bridge and even stranger yet, the Little Calumet was flowing in the opposite direction.
After returning home, we walked over towards the Calumet Ave. bridgehead and noticed several ambulances heading toward the bridgehead. As we walked closer to the bridgehead, I noticed National Guard vehicles that were coming and going from the site, there were several towed boats parked on the side of Calumet Ave with State police stationed inside of them, several news trucks ,and I noticed the eerie glistering of the street and parking lots nearby. We continued to walk towards the bridgehead until we could go no further due to the saturation of sidewalk and street by the flood. As I looked into the parking lot of the strip mall where Target lies, one could see the unfortunate cars that were not recovered in time and were nearly engulfed completely by the flood, only their upper section could be seen.After a couple of ambulances and school buses left the Bridgehead area( carrying patients from the Hammond clinic to higher ground and to safety), the flood began to advance again engulfing the area I stood. My family and I fell back to avoid the flood water and continued to watch it advance Southward. After I had reached higher ground, I pondered what fate lies for the restaurant I work at ,which was even closer to the bridgehead than the spot I was at.

Rome vs Carthage: Battle of Cannae

While channel surfing the other day, I stumbled upon a documentary about Hannibal on History International. It covered the battle of Lake Trasismene, which I have heard of before in part to my Rome Total war game, where Hannibal pushed the Roman army into Lake Trasismene and the only way for the defeated Romans to fall back was to swim the lake. But, it also introduced a battle that I was not familiar with, Cannae, where more than 50,000 sons of Rome lost their lives fighting Carthage and its allies of Gallic and Iberian mercenaries. Hannibal used a crescent shape formation which drew the Roman army in and let the Carthaginians outflank the Roman legions by the sides and rear, which lead to the utter destruction of the Roman legions that fought there . Rome lost more soldiers in one day than America lost in the entire Vietnam war. This defeat also caused Southern Italy to break away its allegiance with Rome and support Hannibal, as well as provoke the Macedonians, who also sided with Hannibal. Despite this tragic loss, Rome later triumphed defeating all those who sides with Hannibal and eventually razed the Carthaginian capitol. " Revenge is a dish best served cold".