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Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted
doomsdaywire writes "A University of Tennessee student who is the son of a Memphis legislator has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of hacking Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail. [...] If convicted, [David C.] Kernell faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release. A trial date has not been set."
I also learned she is as technically illiterate as McCain. A Yahoo account, using basic password recovery questions, and her zip code? Hopefully you (and he?) will be right, and publicity will expose her sheer incompetence, if not her attempts to hide official communications. He wasn't even a hacker, just a bored kid with google and half a brain*
Though, on the upside, having politicians so stupid they can't even properly hide evidence makes it that much easier to prosecute later on.
*With a full brain, he would have been behind multiple proxies, and edited the screenshots to remove the URL, and made a complete backup of the entire mailbox. Or just pirate public wireless, you could do this from Starbucks.
Remember, because of lawyers, common courtesy is dead. For example, you can no longer apologize at the scene of a car accident that's your fault, because then you might be sued.
Yeah, god forbid admitting liability should...make you liable. Idiot.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
How can a person stand against government electronic surveillance while at the same time say the behavior of this individual is acceptable?
That's easy. It's OK if the person being violated is not on your team. That's the way America works; It's OK to break the rules if you are doing it "for the children."
I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
> I really wanted to get something incriminating which I was sure there would be, just like all of you anon out there that you think there was some missed opportunity of glory, well there WAS NOTHING
Spouting that as proof is like taking Slashdot's advice on a legal matter. But I'm fairly sure this idiot didn't know about the Alaska Public Records Act, and it's hard to miss that there were several emails marked "CONFIDENTIAL" and discussing government matters.
That said, you're right that this guy deserves to be prosecuted. He broke the law and he'll get his due. But the fact that he was wrong does not make Palin right.
An illegal immigrant makes trillion dollar decisions for the country? O.o wth
And I agree terrorists should be subject to investigations... They are and have been since forever. I'm just saying that currently politicians get away with alot more than they should. Plus lower privacy would be part of the job description that they would sign up for. I suppose basically i want more transparency in government. And for third parties to be able to investigate congressmen but it almost NEVER happens without a citizen breaking the rules. Look at palin, her dealings through email wouldn't have been found without the hacker.
Anyways I think illegal immigrants should be thrown out. AFTER the immigration laws are totally reworked and many/most of current illegals should be granted citizenship. If its illegal then its illegal i hate all these rules that are made to be broken. That way if someone has a problem with you they can call you on 50 laws pretty much everyone has broken.
If public figure is dumb enough to try that...it would be her
Thank you Dave Raggett
The point is that it hurts you more if you admit your mistake off the bat as opposed to saying nothing and letting a lawyer speak for you.
What? You mean hiring a professional to deal with a complex situation is better than you, an amateur, hacking it out yourself? Unpossible!
Jesus, but you retards are out in force today.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
It's true what they say. The Obama campaign REALLY DOES have a misinformation campaign out there on the 'net.
Parent poster knows that this was Palin's personal email account - even the "prankster" himself stated that he thought he was gonna find some juicy stuff, but it was just "boring" personal correspondence, family photos, etc.
But the Obama Brownshirts continue to stoke the fires of falsehood, lying about it incessantly.
I do hope that you lib slashdotters get what you wish for, then find out that a socialist society that crushes free enterprise as well as free thought and free speech, is actually a BAD place for even YOU people to live.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
John McCain can't type because his arms were repeatedly broken by the Vietnamese while he was a POW. Why do you insult disabled veterans?
Because he's a fucking scumbag liar who has completely pissed away any integrity that he might once have had by being an active supporter of torturing innocent people and made up bullshit wars?
Are you really that fucking stupid that you needed that pointed out to you?
Joining the military doesn't make one a "good guy" especially when we have no credible military threats (and haven't for decades) and even more so when you're as pathetic at it as McCain was.