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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."
Not really relevant, since old persons don't use email. Just ask John McCain.
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
Has someone charged her with conducting official business with Yahoo! mail?
But my guess is that nothing will happen to Palin and this guy will get punished. Sorry, I'm just your typical American who has lost a great deal of faith in our government, economy, and legal system.
YES...he SHOULD punished if he did this. And so should ANY web site that published the email--including media websites. If this was someone else's email...say Obama's, a lot of you would be screaming about privacy rights, illegal search and seizure, etc....and rightfully so! You cannot (as OJ just found out) commit a crime while claiming to be exposing a criminal act. And if there were anything criminal in the email (and I'm dubious about that claim), it would be thrown out because it was obtained illegally. Fruit of the poisoned vine. And the media KNEW this was illegal and yet some also disclosed what was in them.
If you've never been modded as "flamebait" or "troll," you've never tried to argue a minority viewpoint here!
Wow, I'm not sure what else to say here other than thanks for validating my long held beliefs on jerks and internet message boards.
Stop it, you're turning me on.
The GP's point has nothing to do with who handles the situation better or whether one should hire a lawyer or not, instead the GP just gave anecdotal examples of how the legal system is a little messed up...
Way to fail reading comprehension.
Way to obfuscate the issue so you can attempt to raise your self-esteem by putting others down. How's that working out for you?
Pretty good. After all, I'm not the coward.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Cute, remember that next time you slightly tap someone with your bumper and they show up to court in a neckbrace and on crutches because the lawyer sees an opportunity to milk you.
Funneee. See, that's not going to happen, because I have...drum roll....a good lawyer! Which is kind of the freaking point. You don't go into a gunfight with a knife.
It's nice to see all you cowards, though. Brings warmth to the cockles of my heart you haven't the energy or the gumption to log in.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!