WIRED: Sarah Palin not actually a “hacker,” despite Internet claims:

Palin, as chairwoman of the Oil and Gas Commission and its ethics supervisor, was entitled to examine Ruedrich’s computer since the computer was state property. According to the Anchorage Daily News, a technician who worked for the commission found a way around Ruedrich’s password (presumably by simply using an administrative password — hardly an example of hacking, by anyone’s definition of the word) and recovered some files from his computer’s trash bin. Palin found dozens of e-mails and documents on the computer that suggested an improper relationship between Ruedrich and oil companies, which she forwarded to the attorney general’s office.

They seem almost disappointed, but then, it’s Wired, for whom a hacker VP would probably be cool!