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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.
> 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.
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.