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June 2, 2011
Maybe that will turn out to be the case. im going to let people who do this for a living, internet security types and white collar criminal guys look to see if there is a civil or criminal action. i dont think this is a federal case. >> sean: that was a clip from anthony weiners interview with bret baier. what may surprise you, it may have originated here on hannity. the "washington post" reports the seattle college student who received the fraudulent tweet from congressman weiners account, agai...
June 2, 2011
The case. im going to let people who do this for a living, internet security types and white collar criminal guys look to see if there is a civil or criminal action. i dont think this is a federal case. >> sean: that was a clip from anthony weiners interview with bret baier. what may surprise you, it may have originated here on hannity. the "washington post" reports the seattle college student who received the fraudulent tweet from congressman weiners account, again following his twitter feed af...
June 1, 2011
Passwords. that is the first line of defense. and same way with facebook but there is something to the idea of malicious links especially on facebook people post links saying i found a picture of you and people follow it and the account is hacked and people use the account and, sometimes they hack and figure out what the password is by pulling stuff off the persons computer, so, there are different ways to get attacked and have things like this happen. >>shepard: never click a link you dont know...
June 1, 2011
Talking about the hacking. listen. >>guest: millions of federal resources to find out who posted on congressman weiners page, a picture of what it was. maybe that will turn out to be the case. the way i pursue it is let people who do this for a living, to look at this and see if there is a civil or criminal action but why think this is a federal case, i dont think this is the second rising of bin laden hoax. what this is, someone making mischief, and this is, i believe, time for us to kind of fo...
June 1, 2011
New york congressman talking to the media about the controversl photograph posted on his twitter account over the weekend, a closeup of somebody in his underpants. bret baier will interview congressman weiner this hour. the back story, the picture appeared on his twitter stream addressed to a journalism student but visible to 4,000 followers and he told msnbc and said his system was hacked and "pictures can be manipulated and dropped in and inserted." "can be." interesting way of putting it. whe...
June 1, 2011
This and says one call to the f.b.i. and in his estimation the agency would have a subpoena to twitter in five minutes. an internet security consultant has done work for our parent news company. >> this is something if it happened on friday or saturday, already, today, we would have known where it was coming from and some information where the culprit may be located. it is unusual, surprising, alarming, that those steps have not been taken unless this is something else going on here. >>reporter:...
May 31, 2011
the photo and tweet were quickly deleted. representative weiner is denying he posted the photo, and says it was a prank by a hacker. we caught up with the congressman again today to get some more answers. but this is what he said. >> arent you concerned someone is looking at your sensitive information? >> im going to return to working on the things i care about. i participated in the story a couple of days now, given comments on it. this is a distraction, and im not going to let it dis...
March 17, 2011
Years he cant get over it. barack obamas budgets nearly five trillion in debt. he wont mention where he would cut. >> what do you mean he? >> sean: that would be you! congresswoman where would you cut? >> i had no idea that representative weiner was such a reader of fiction. thats all of his numbers. i wanted to mention -- >> bachmann, i dont think you want to go there bachmann. >> sean if i could have the respect of speaking, on the day that nancy pelosi took the gavel in 2007, she said we deal...
March 17, 2011
The top 10% pay 75% of the bill and you want to hit them over the head with a baseball bat. >> some believe intacts for billionaires you are one. im saying -- in taxes for billionaires, you are one. im saying you have to pay for it. >> sean: i want people like you to stop irresponsibly spending our hard earned money. i live in new york, 55% of my income goes to taxes and you want more money. i dont want to give you more money. manage the money you have. >> you make a lot of money you want tax cu...
March 17, 2011
Bill and you want to hit them over the head with a baseball bat. >> some believe intacts for billionaires you are one. im saying -- in taxes for billionaires, you are one. im saying you have to pay for it. >> sean: i want people like you to stop irresponsibly spending our hard earned money. i live in new york, 55% of my income goes to taxes and you want more money. i dont want to give you more money. manage the money you have. >> you make a lot of money you want tax cuts. maybe we should have cu...