New Charges Brought Against Sarah Palin's Hacker
During the presidential race in 2008, someone hacked into Sarah Palin’s personal email account and posted the contents online for the world to see. Whether or not it was “real hacking” is heavily debated (he used the forgotten password link and found the answer to her secret question on Wikipedia) but the FBI still had a huge problem with it. The Tennessee student was yesterday charged with a couple of new offenses: fraud and obstruction-of-justice.
ComputerWorld today reports that David Kernell, son of Mike Kernell, a Democratic state representative from Memphis, was arraigned five months after a federal grand jury first handed down charges against him. According to CW, he had been facing just one count of illegally accessing a protected computer, but prosecutors are now accusing him of three counts of computer fraud. Yikes.
Kernell pleaded not guilty to the charges; and when contacted by ComputerWorld last year, Gabriel Ramuglia (who runs Ctunnel the proxy site that the screenshots showed the attacker used) said he had identified the IP address and approximate location of whomever was responsible for the hack. He also said that it was not consistent with media reports. Interesting, no? Kernell’s trial is set for October 27. Plenty of time for the kid to sweat it out over summer.
Check out the full scoop on ComputerWorld.
How about if someone disrupt your life? Thousands of people get hacked their credit destroyed and the police say that they can not do anything about it. But If you are big cheese from Washington and have ‘free’ prosecutor on staff, the whole system jumps.
This case is the biggest BS ever.
LMAO...
Politic hijacking aside for the moment…
I think you have a valid point, I often complain about this type of thing. To get any justice you need to be in the public eye…
Everyday people get hacked, identities stolen, murdered, raped…far worse then what happened to Palin, but we only hear about these incidents in the form of statistics.
Yes, but I dont see them being able to legitamently prove that he opened more than what ever email he posted information from. Do they have proof that he opened 3 emails?
Having been in Law Enforcement before, I can tell you local police departments don't generally have the equipment, expertise, or resources to investigate and prosecute this type of crime.
Internet related crimes, credit fraud, theft of identity, and related crimes are a HUGE burden on local police agencies. The truth is, most of the point in reporting such crimes is to get the official documentation you need in order for the credit agencies or the insurance agencies to take care of the problem for you.
Law Enforcement have their hands full with this stuff, and don't have the needed resources to take care of it. At the federal level, they do have the abilities to do it, but not enough personnel to investigate the MILLIONS of crimes reported along these lines.
That's where the fundamental change has to be made. Better training, equipping, and resourcing to local law enforcement agencies.
I don't know if they will be able to do such unless there is evidence on his harddrive. If anyone knows of any other method that can be used to find out what emails he accessed I would love to hear it. Though I think its safe to assume that he more than likely read most if not all the emails Palin got. But thankfully we don't let assumptions determine charges and verdicts in court.
The emails that I saw wasn't her conducting official business. One of them was her speaking with another politician; but it was a private (or so she thought) conversation. Politicians are allowed to have private conversations with other politicians.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39376/118/
Dissent if you ask me. She, and everyone who backs the above legislation, deserves the same. Won't get any sympathy from me.
So if I sit down at a computer and someone forgets to log out of their account, am I committing fraud?
He didn't send any e-mails from that account (although that would have been hilarious).
I think we shouldn't give Palin any special treatment. Sending this kid away isn't going to stop anyone from doing this again. What we need to do is make an example of Sarah Palin, we can't stop hackers with threats of jail time if they're caught, she stupidly made an account unsecure.
Do not take things that are not yours, knuckleheads. That includes e-mail.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9115289
So, to answer your question, no, not interesting.