Go to Jail...
Do not collect $200. Go directly to Jail.
The hacking of Sarah Palin's private email and posting of all kinds of private information made quite the stir yesterday. Regardless what you might think of the wisdom of a public figure using such an account, there is no getting around the fact that the hacker is in deep you-know-what:
The simplicity of the attack, of course, makes it no less illegal.
Come to learn that the prime suspect is the son of a Tennessee State Representative:
State Rep. Mike Kernell confirmed Thursday that his son, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, is at the center of heated Internet discussion into the hacking of the personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, confirmed that it is his 20-year-old son, David, who is being widely named on Internet blogs and chatrooms in connection with an unfolding story about Palin's hacked e-mail accounts.
If in fact it is Kernell, he can only blame himself. As the Wired blog post notes, the hacker couldn't help but talk about it:
A person claiming to be the hacker who obtained access to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail on Tuesday has posted a supposed first-person account of the hack, revealing the relatively simple steps he says he took to crack the private e-mail of the Republican vice-presidential candidate.
The story was briefly posted Wednesday to the 4chan forum where the hack first surfaced. Bloggers have connected the handle of the poster, "Rubico," to an e-mail address, and tentatively identified the owner as a college student in Tennessee.
Could be a short-trip from college student to felon. All because he couldn't help himself.
Sadly, I've noticed that most of the angry left that you find in all kinds of holes throughout the internet share that same characteristic. For more proof just read this bit of insanity.
The hacking of Sarah Palin's private email and posting of all kinds of private information made quite the stir yesterday. Regardless what you might think of the wisdom of a public figure using such an account, there is no getting around the fact that the hacker is in deep you-know-what:
The simplicity of the attack, of course, makes it no less illegal.
Come to learn that the prime suspect is the son of a Tennessee State Representative:
State Rep. Mike Kernell confirmed Thursday that his son, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, is at the center of heated Internet discussion into the hacking of the personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, confirmed that it is his 20-year-old son, David, who is being widely named on Internet blogs and chatrooms in connection with an unfolding story about Palin's hacked e-mail accounts.
If in fact it is Kernell, he can only blame himself. As the Wired blog post notes, the hacker couldn't help but talk about it:
A person claiming to be the hacker who obtained access to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail on Tuesday has posted a supposed first-person account of the hack, revealing the relatively simple steps he says he took to crack the private e-mail of the Republican vice-presidential candidate.
The story was briefly posted Wednesday to the 4chan forum where the hack first surfaced. Bloggers have connected the handle of the poster, "Rubico," to an e-mail address, and tentatively identified the owner as a college student in Tennessee.
Could be a short-trip from college student to felon. All because he couldn't help himself.
Sadly, I've noticed that most of the angry left that you find in all kinds of holes throughout the internet share that same characteristic. For more proof just read this bit of insanity.
Labels: Governor Palin, Hate
