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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."
thats over 9000 dollars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxJ7t3U3TDg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTm5rp8r6fE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD0-2CSph_A&feature=related
When you see people willing to commit crimes for the one, you know something familiar is coming....
"The New Age. The New Beginning."
You mean how the watergate burglars were punshied for more than simple breaking & entering?
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?
Interestingly this implies you had faith in all of the above to begin with. For myself I trust government (any government) about as far as I can throw it. It's a necessary evil though, the trick is giving it just enough power to do what needs to be done, and not an ounce beyond that (same for the legal system). Unfortunately lawyers and judges have been running our country for far too long, and our legal and government systems show it. Fun fact, one of the only major professions without a legal salary cap is an attorney. Think about that and consider the implications.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
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!
That is the most retarded post I have ever read, period. You don't think for an instant that Obama would have a literal shit fit if his email ever got hacked? You know he would. Any and all candidates would. The fact is Palin doesn't mention this very often or at all. She is NOT pushing it into the media spotlight. This guy who fraudulently gained access to her email deserves to go to trial because what he did is morally and ethically wrong. Moreover he was dumb about it. If he had hacked in and found nothing (which is what he found, nothing) then just left it at that then Sarah would have had to reset the password again but probably would not think anything of it. Instead the moron posted to Wikileaks information that really was not very interesting I have to admit. In fact it would be subject to deletion for not being important had it not come from a hacked email account.
Lastly your shoutout for Obama at the end of your post makes you appear to be in with all the rest of the mindless masses who support that man but have absolutely no idea why. They can attack the other side to provide reason not to vote for them but they can't provide a reason to vote FOR Obama. What has he done? Has he been responsible with his time? Has he voted the way you wanted on major issues? The War doesn't differentiate them. McCain wants to stay in Iraq but Obama wants to send them all over to Afghanistan. The net result is the same deployment. Obama wants a socialistic Government and McCain is more hands off with some regulation. Most importantly Obama voted to allow newborn babies who survived abortion attempts to be denied medical care, food or milk and allowed to die in a closet. Yes, look it up. He did it. Know your candidate.
So you rather vote for cancer face who has less morals, will probably die within his first year of office and leave a moronic bimbo in charge who is less qualified to be president than my dog.
That's ignoring the fact the loon goes to church to be protected by witches, her hypocrisy with all her earmarks and her "first dude" is/was a separatists.
This is why American politics continue to go down the drain. No one has the balls to vote in a way that actually helps the country. Instead they get served up to half assed options and will happily pick one of them and neither party cares that much if they lose as there's a 50/50 chance they'll win next time.
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!