Tennessee Student Indicted for Palin E-Mail Hack
A University of Tennessee student and son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker was indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the hacked E-mail account of Sarah Palin, the Associated Press reports.
David Kernell, 20, son of state Rep. Mike Kernell, pleaded not guilty to intentionally accessing a computer without authorization, the Justice Department said. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a three-year term of supervised release. Kernell, an economics student at Tennessee, was released without posting bond, but the court forbade him from owning a computer and limited his Internet use to checking E-mail and doing class work.
The indictment alleges that in mid-September, he reset the password of Palin's Yahoo E-mail account by answering personal questions about Palin's life with information known to the public. He then gained access, read the contents, made screen shots of the account, and posted some of that information on a public site.
Tags: computers | e-mail | internet | presidential election 2008 | crime | Yahoo | University of Tennessee | Sarah Palin
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Underhanded approach to election seems to be a PATTERN OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY. ACORN'S FRAUD VOTER REGISTERING in many places is NOT SURPRISING. Here is the news of OBAMA'S HARDBALL TATIC, when he ran for Illinois senate.
Do you know that Obama won his first election by having his lawyers KNOCK ALL HIS OPPONENTS OFF THE BALLOT on technicalities.
Obama has MANY SERIOUS PROBLEMS that mainstream media continue to IGNORE.
Why Indeed!
I am not 100% committed to either party in this election. But I find it curious that most of the bitter and often mean responses seem to come from the democratic side. That along with the hollywood (smarter than thou)crowd is pushing me towards the republican side. I believe that I am not alone.
Okay
Morals? Not many care about morals on the internet. Its Palin's own fault for making it easy to access her private information, illegal crime or not.
Goodnight sweet prince.
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