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.
@backbeat: Are you threatening violence to overthrow the current US government?
Guess what buddy, As I am typing this I am also calling my local FBI office. Oh and trust me, you assholes come anywhere near my family, my friends or my wife – so help me God I will gut you alive with my Kabar. So if your going to start a little coup d’état, stay away from Philadelphia.
Are we perfectly clear?
Fry the little rat-bastard of a DemoNcrat…let his punk-ass sit in jail for a while. When he gets out, he and daddy can run for public office together and have the left-wing-dim-wits harp, “4 more years!”
^ Do you not understand the words of the Founders? Maybe you simply need to re-read both my post and the segment from the Declaration _again_ since your grasp, so far, is blatantly flaccid. If your skewed interpretation remains the same, it only goes to prove that it is your mindset which endangers the fabric of this nation.
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If one 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?
Guess what buster. It’s not up for me to interpret. Can’t take back a phone call. Have fun at Guantanamo Bay, Asshole. Oh, did I not mention I have a few friends in Federal Law Enforcement? You kind of make those, since many Marines take those positions after their service.
Say hello to Castro, if you see him.
In case you couldn’t locate it, Mikey, I thought I’d give you a helping-hand, buddy:
http://philadelphia.fbi.gov/contact.htm
btw – When they show up, ya think I should take G. Gordon Liddy’s advice and aim for their heads since they will be wearing bulletproof vests? Maybe I can have my own inciting extremist radio show one day too!
Actually, the USMC special forces tactics guidebook which all ERT entry teams adhere by specify the use of explosives or gas grenades be shot into the house before entering when confronting possible armed threats. Oh and they stopped using flashbangs a while ago, now they just blow the shit out of you with regular incendiary charges and then try to interrogate the remains.
P.S.: Thanks for visiting the FBI’s website to get the link. They now have your IP address. Without a warrant. You just solved my dilemma of getting your ass thrown in prison without mucking up BG.
Now if you excuse me, I am going to bed. I have to be at work bright and early at 7am. Sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite.
^ Goddamn, you’re a fucking adolescent riot! At least you’re good for a delusional trip down memory lane. Welcome to the real world!
However, on one point, you’re entirely wrong. You’re way past “mucking up BG”, Guido!
See ya soon!
^ Italians have their own race? You really are US military educated, aren’t you?
Seek therapy, Mikey.
Found out this morning that I’m a “person of interest”.
So, in lieu of my Miranda Rights and one-phonecall, I’m simply posting to further plead for Mikey to seek therapy. Get help. From _any_ civilian who is properly credentialed and qualified, please.
Well, the stormtrooping, booted feds are telling me that I have much more important things to be concerned about than some internet troll who doesn’t value or appreciate the high principles this nation was founded upon, and who doesn’t appear to like me (boo-hoo
) so I’m going to go pick up the gum wrapper out of the street that they told me will be my punishment for having fed the troll.
G’day all!
WOW.. I am honestly at a loss of words.. Did that blog fight/arguement really happen?? On the bright side, after reading all of that, I am 15 minutes closer to 5 o’clock.. lol
i think it did
you should see the other threads it spilled over to! backbeat is a troll and madmike just wont let him have the last word. if you look around the site, thats all backbeat does is start worthless fights. methinks he is starved of attention from his mum.
Hahaha.. I’ve def noticed it in other threads as well. But hey, it’s people like that that not only make this site informative, but entertaining as well.. Makes my day go by a little faster..
No wonder you’re being “moderated”, cypherus.
Exactly when was it that mirrors were outlawed where you live?