Tennessee Man Indicted in Hacking of Palin's E-Mail Account

[Dos Equis]

Tennessee Man Indicted in Hacking of Palin's E-Mail Account
Son of Democratic state representative indicted for hack of Republican vice presidential candidate's private e-mail

FOXNews.com

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

A Democratic state representative's son has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Tennessee for intentionally hacking into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account.

David C. Kernell, 20, was charged with one count of breaking into the Republican vice presidential nominee's personal Yahoo e-mail account. Kernell, an economics student at the University of Tennessee, is the son of state Rep. Michael Kernell of Memphis.

According to the Justice Department, Kernell turned himself in to authorities.

He pleaded not guilty in federal court in Knoxville, Tenn., on Wednesday.

He was released without posting bond, but the court imposed several conditions. Kernell is not allowed to own a computer and can only use the Internet to check e-mail and do class work.

Click here to see the indictment.

Trial is set for Dec. 16, and if convicted, Kernell faces up to five years in jail and a $250,000 fine.

According to the indictment, Kernell, who used the nicknames "rubico" and "rubico 10" on the Internet, allegedly reset Palin's e-mail password to "popcorn" using Yahoo's password-recovery tool on Sept. 16 by "researching and correctly answering a series of personal security questions."

After changing the password, the indictment alleges he made screenshots of her e-mail directory, e-mail messages and other personal information before posting them to a public Web site. He also posted the reset password.

Kernell was able to obtain the personal e-mail addresses of Palin's family members, pictures of her family, her birth date and at least one family member's cell phone number. He also had access to her address book.

The indictment alleges that after posting Palin's personal information online, Kernell "removed, altered, concealed and covered up files on his laptop computer" to throw off a possible investigation.

Investigators were able to track Kernell down by tracing the hack to his Knoxville apartment through an Internet proxy site.

The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee and investigated by the FBI's Anchorage and Knoxville field offices.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/08/tennessee-man-indicted-hacking-palins-e-mail-account/

[tonymctones]

LOL sweet...the only thing that would make this better is if this retard got jail time

How funny is it that he is the son of a democratic state representative

[Option D]

go get em Beach. Bring down that Democratic Machine one pointless story at a time

[Dos Equis]

go get em Beach. Bring down that Democratic Machine one pointless story at a time

I'll be posting a story about the size of Palin's flag pin and her hairdo next.  Unless someone covered those already?   

[tonymctones]

go get em Beach. Bring down that Democratic Machine one pointless story at a time

LOL OH MY GOODNESS you have ppl on here starting threads about palin wearing a cast to get sympathy, palin wearing her hair down to hide an ear piece, palin having an affair with a business partner and the national enquirer having proof, her daughter throwing gang signs and kissing girls....ALL of which where not true and even if they where are non stories AND I DIDNT SEE YOU POST ONE THING ABOUT THEM...you want non issues go look at what your fellow libs are spamming the board with and then go bitch at them. At least this is somewhat relevant.