Palin Email Snoop Found Guilty On 2 Charges

netbuzz writes "A federal jury in Knoxville today has convicted David Kernell, 22, of two charges — misdemeanor computer fraud and felony obstruction of justice — in connection with the 2008 episode where he accessed the personal Yahoo email account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and then initiated a worldwide rummaging of its contents. The obstruction charge carries a maximum prison term of 20 years."

Comments

Re:I'm still confused by something...

[jDeepbeep]

how come nothing ever happend about Palin conducting official State business using her personal email account?

Precisely my question. *waits for replies*

Re:Why is this different?

[Vinegar Joe]

If anything S.P. should be footing the bill for all the proceedings simply because she used such easy/obvious answers that it was inevitable to happen.

I wonder what the bill was for the investigation of Obama's Twiiter hacking investigation. Think he'll be the one paying?

"A French computer hacker was facing prison today after breaking into the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama and Britney Spears by ‘guessing’ their passwords.
In the U.S. president's case the key word is said to have included the name of his beloved dog, Bo.
Agents spent six months on his trail after he managed to gain access to Mr Obama’s Twitter account - a micro-blogging site which the president frequently uses to communicate with voters."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1260488/Barack-Obamas-Twitter-password-revealed-French-hacker-arrested.html