Anthony Weiner not sure if that's his weiner.Follow

You know, I can't say with certitude. My system was hacked. Pictures can be manipulated. Pictures can be dropped in and inserted,

Jon Stewart's segment on this was hilarious. He basically laughed and said "I was good friends with him back in college, and let me just say... no way. Granted, we swam in the cold Atlantic Ocean a lot, but... no. Impossible."

"His ***** is like his politics...far left leaning."

I disagree. I think the question is "Is there a similar picture of your junk?". Whether or not that is the same picture is an entire different question. If you don't have any "junk pictures", then it obviously can't be you.

Which he didn't. Yfrog has disabled the email-pic service that was exploited, presumably to dig through the logs and find the actual email address of the person who sent the photo for the lawyers - and the IP address.

The truth, though, is that it is possible that the Weiner-wiener incident was pulled off by pranksters who knew how to manipulate yFrog into posting a photo to Weiner's account. yFrog, like many other image services, allows users to send a photo to a specialized e-mail address made for that person's account; when the service receives the message, it gets posted automatically and then tweeted out to the world.

The yFrog e-mail addresses given to users aren't public, but they also aren't hard to crack with some patience and some brute force. As noted by the Daily Dot, the format includes the user's twitter name, a period, and a random word between five and six characters @yfrog.com (for example, mine might be something like ejacqui.bears@yfrog.com). And because yFrog apparently accepts submissions to those secret e-mail addresses from any account, any prankster who has guessed the random dictionary word could send a photo to Weiner's account as if it were from Weiner himself.
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The folks over at Cannonfire tested this several times with yFrog and confirmed that this is possible when the trickster figures out the target's yFrog e-mail address. yFrog has since disabled this feature, but the damage has already been done to Weiner's reputation—assuming that it was indeed a prank from a third party

It sounds more like wishful thinking whilst trying to come up with some rational explanation instead of the more likely obvious one that he accidentally sent a message publicly that he intended to be private.

We don't know if he did or didn't. Hence, my statement. All we know is that it's possible to exploit Yfrog to do this, not that it actually happened in this case. And while I fully admit to not having more than a cursory knowledge of the specifics, my understanding is that this didn't get sent out to "the world", but to a specific person, but done publicly so that everyone following him could see the tweet.

I'm not aware that the Yfrog exploit would result in a specific targeted tweet like that. I'm frankly not sure how it could even be possible. Automatic upload of a pic? Sure. Forwarding that to a single specific twitter account from the account it's uploaded to? I don't think so. It sounds more like wishful thinking whilst trying to come up with some rational explanation instead of the more likely obvious one that he accidentally sent a message publicly that he intended to be private.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but I think we should wait until more facts come in before leaping to the conclusion that it was all a prank played on him.

Actually, it's quite easy to direct it to a specific person on Twitter via Yfrog. You just include the @UserName in the message portion of the email, and bam, the tweet is sent and directed to that person. Easy peasy. Too easy, unfortunately.