# Re Anthony Weiner's latest 3rd strike texting antics. Is he mentally unhinged? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416 "2016-08-29T17:19:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 64
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416/64 "2016-09-23T05:20:37Z")
From 2011: > [@Congressman Anthony Weiner: My Twitter account was hacked! The weiner photo is not mine!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/55): > > once again rachel maddow has done some actual research and investigating. she had a segment on how one could send things out under other people’s accounts. also rep. weiner appeared and said that there is a private security company going through his office and working on finding out what happened and how to guard against it. > > rep. weiner did mention mr stewart’s defense. > [@Congressman Anthony Weiner: My Twitter account was hacked! The weiner photo is not mine!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/131): > > Do you all really not realize why he’s not denying it’s him? > > You can take a photo of just about anything, manipulate it via photoshop, crop and enlarge it so that a tiny bit of it is now the entire picture, change the color and the orientation, and render it completely unrecognizable. This “picture” could be of a wrinkle in someone’s teeshirt near a seam line, put together with some white and some skin. If Weiner flat out denies the picture is of himself, and it later turns out that it is even in part a tiny segment of some bigger picture of himself, turned upside and sideways, he’ll be called a liar. When asked if the picture was of him, he repeatedly said that what with photoshop, he couldn’t say for sure. > > With what photoshop can do, could any of us say definitively that that picture didn’t originate with us ourselves? I’m a woman, and I couldn’t say for sure that that picture didn’t have some portion of it originating in a picture of me (although I’d certainly guess it wasn’t, since I don’t think I have any pictures of me on the web at all). Here’s the [picture](http://blogs.abcnews.com/.a/6a00d8341c4df253ef01538ee67353970b-320wi). Could you be so certain? You know what photoshop-type programs can do. It’s not like it’s difficult. > > As for hacking his account, Rachel Maddow found people on the web who reproduced similar results (a tweet purportedly from someone else linking to a photo the someone else purportedly posted) in, if I’m not mistaken, about 12 seconds. Again, not difficult. Good times. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416)._