Palin Email Hack Investigation Leads FBI to Son of TN State rep Mike Keller
Oh man… This just keeps getting better and better. Last week we told you about the recent invasion into an email account belonging to Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. At the time, it was thought that a group of hackers known as Anonymous sloppily battled their way into Palin’s Yahoo account, snapped some screen shots and stole a handful of family photos. Well people, the plot thickens. At around midnight Sunday evening, the FBI raided a party being held in the on-campus residence of University of Tennessee student David Kernell who has been implicated in the Palin email scandal. According to witnesses, Kernell reportedly fled the scene when agents arrived but that of course didn’t stop them from photographing his residence and collecting evidence. Kernell and his three roommates have been subpoenaed to appear in court in Chattanooga later this week, though no formal charges have been filed. So what, you might ask, is so interesting about David Kernell? It just so happens that he is the son of Mike Kernell – Tennessee’s Democratic state representative.
What lead the FBI to Kernell? Firstly, no one “hacked” Palin’s account. The intruder used Palin’s birthdate, zip code and other publicly available information to reset the password on her Yahoo account to “popcorn”. He or she then posted the password along with screen shots to a public forum where others used the information to access Palin’s account as well. The user name of the person who originally posted this information, “rubico”, also happens to be included in a yahoo email address used by David Kernell. In addition (and as suggested by San Fransisco blogger Dan Goodin), the proxy URL found in screen shots of Palin’s email account was eventually traced to an IP belonging to Pavlov Media, the ISP that provides internet access to the dormitory in which Kernell resides. It is likely, though not disclosed at this point, that the FBI worked with Pavlov Media to further trace the attack.
If Kernell is charged, it will likely be with a misdemeanor and he will face little or no time in prison.
And you sir, are an idiot. Excusing breaking the law to try and gather dirt on someone is just the type of stupidity that has infested the liberal democratic party. It reminds me of Germany prior to WWII and the brownies. I bet they thought they were doing the right thing.
The problem is, liberty and freedom is for everyone or for no one. You can’t piss away someone’s rights because you don’t agree with them.
Backwash is an ignorant douche, who rants from his mother’s basement, all the while foaming from his mouth…
Here’s a quarter… buy yourself a friggin’ CLUE!!
Talk about paranoid and schizophrenic…
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Hermann Goering and G. Gordon Liddy would be oh-so-ashamed of your fear of breaking laws in order to expose your enemies. Pussies. The Repugs were taught at the feet of the masters.
Hacked, Cracked use whatever term you like. The reality is that is was “social engineering” and it does not surprise me in the least that some lib dem’s kid was behind this.
J.
1. Don’t preach politics to the readers, no one wants to hear it. 2. You’re an idiot.
^ We didn’t start the fire, junior. Clear?
backbeat sounds like an one of those guys sitting in a dark room wearing a tin foil hat. What an idiot.
“We didn’t start the fire, junior. Clear?”
What’s this “we” cr@p?
You got a mouse in your pocket, or what??
He was wearing an Obama t-shirt when he was trying to get into her email
Yet Another Conspiracy Theorist Liberal Nutjob.
I just spent the last hour reading every email from her account spewn on the web and more than enough time on /g/ for two lifetimes. There is absolutely positively nothing on there that is unethical, illegal, improper or otherwise. Pictures of her kids, general correspondence, personal correspondence, charity correspondence and some business correspondence not related to her Gubernatorial duties. I see some last minute schedule stuff.
There is nothing on here to even remotely show that she was subverting the Freedom of Information Act nor was she breaking any laws.
So, backbeat – What the fuck are you talking about? Did you READ any of the E-mails? Stop listening to the leftist media and READ the e-mails. Nothing there.
There was nobody on the grassy knoll, Oswald shot Kennedy, NASA didn’t fake the moon landing, There was no “secret cheating device” taped to Bush’s back and Area 51 and secret space aliens don’t exist.
Stop smoking the opium, sir. Or is it Ketamine addiction?
^ Since this represents the best of the Repug’s verbally regurgitated excrement, you’re making the next 6 weeks a laugh a minute.
Why would you even bother when little Ms Lyin’ Piggy has openly admitted her use of her Yahoo account [ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903044.html for State business? You’re only making yourself dizzy, kid.
@TRUTH – Does the word ‘crap’ frighten you that much, kid? Shit! That’s funny!
Folks, you really can’t believe the Democrats would send this idiot to do some “spying” on the opposition do you?
Sounds like him and/or his idiot dorm mates were goofing off after a few too many beers.
If your really think this is some kind of Democratic conspiracy instead of a REALLY (REALLY) stupid prank, I have a bridge I can sell you in Alaska for cheap.
1.) I’m not republican.
2.) I was fighting in a war when you were in grade school, kid.
3.) “I see some last minute schedule stuff.” There is nothing on her E-mails that isn’t completely open information. The context of the E-mails show nothing really important nor the least bit interesting.
4.) She still has nothing illegal, unethical or immoral.
5.) Lisa Demer, Erik Ose and Karl Vick: Would you like their criminal records? Somebody likes to drink and drive and even LIED on the stand in his trial about it. WOW, that’s someone we should believe! OH YEAH!
Get a life, Assclown.
@Backwash…
No, sonny boy, I just don’t care to stoop to your (low) level of talking, as I am of the firm belief that a trash-talking “potty mouth” does nothing to reinforce your argument.
But, I’m certain the wisdom is lost on the youth…
The Democrats didn’t send this kid to do anything. He acted alone.
backbeat, you probably fancy yourself another John Nash. Let me be the first to write that you are as paranoid and crazy as John Nash but without any of the genius. Please go back to trying to decypher codes in newspapers and leave the discussion to us adults.
It was fearless liberals who conceived of and founded this nation. Don’t like the fact that you owe your ability to verse your opinion to such stark-raving liberals? Too bad.
Golly-Gee, what happened to “Hold me accountable”?? Looks like those Troopergate emails in Palin’s Yahoo account (You know … The ones First Hubby, Todd, was copied on as well as others) are one of the holes in the Repugs sinking ship.
btw, MadMikey, where did you obtain your law credentials? Honduras State A&T? I never referred to you as a Repub. I simply stated that you regurgitate their talking points as scripted. You paint yourself, bubba.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26777544/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/ap_on_el_pr/palin_troopergate_7
What a dumb thing to invade a person’s privacy and personal space! I do hope that the person responsible will face some serious jail time and have a criminal record to follow him for the rest of his life on earth! For all the talk of the right of privacy coming from the Democrats, this is a shameless example of invasion of privacy!!! It is almost like breaking open the mail box at your home and having your mail or identity stolen from you!
@ernestt: Would it have been dumb if he actually found something incriminating?
Yes! Remember when a cell phone call was listened to by someone in the DC area some time back? And how this led to the opening of some rather embarassing things to the White House? Well, the person intercepting this message had to face the music of invasion of privacy. Whether you have incriminating items in your mail is not the issue. It’s is invasion of privacy that is the issue. If you violate the rules, you have to face the music.
Ecua, that is a stupid question. Of course it would have been a dumb thing to do whether he found something or not. The ends will never justify the means. We should never allow illegal acts even if the results are favorable. It still remains that the act is illegal.
@backbeat: Fearless liberals? Really, because I thought it was a bunch of American Colonialists who were tired of paying taxes without representation. Gee, how could I be so wrong about the American Revolution? It wasn’t John Adams & George Washington who told England to go take a hike! No, according to Backbeat, it was Ted Kennedy, Bob Reich and Michael Moore fighting in the trenches! Oh My!
I’m not regurgitating a thing. You are, whilst reciting pointless news stories on a baseless scandal only brought about to smear a political campaign.
Have you ever fought in combat? Have you ever had to pick up an automatic weapon and kill a man in the name of Uncle Sam? Probably not. Have you ever walked into an Iraqi torture chamber? Oh by the way, they weren’t used to torture enemy combatants, they were used to torture people that refused to be in Hussein’s army. They would torture the man to death after killing his entire family, usually brutally raping the woman before slitting their throats. Have you ever seen a pregnant women who had the baby cut from her womb by Iraqi guards and find a dead child in a shallow grave of sand?
No, you haven’t. I bet they didn’t show that stuff on the news. Nope, they showed some fictitious scandal.
Get a life you worthless ingrate.
people get hacked everyday just because its someone famous it matters
If oen cannot recognize which illegal actions/revelations were congruent with this nation’s founding principles, versus those actions which undermine our principles, there is a battle coming to be fought to preserve this nation’s great hope. There will be blood.
Pontiac’s Rebellion – Ethnic Cleansing by US Army
- Boston Tea Party
- Underground Railroad
- Women’s Suffrage
- Tuskegee Experiment
- Greensboro Lunchcounter Sit-In
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Illegal, undisclosed secret Wars in Laos/Cambodia
- Pentagon Papers
- Downing Street Memo
- Habeas Corpus rights revoked under the Protect America Act of 2001/2006
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
- US Declaration of Independence
Are we perfectly clear?