Posted on 09/18/2008 2:13:48 PM PDT by MIDad23
NASHVILLE – The son of state Rep. Mike Kernell has been contacted by authorities in connection with a probe into the hacking of personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Kernell told The Tennessean.
Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, said his 20-year-old son David had been contacted by authorities investigating the hacking of Palin’s personal e-mail account, the newspaper reported on its Web site this afternoon.
The FBI and the Secret Service started a formal investigation Wednesday into the hacking, according to the Associated Press.
David Kernell is a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
(Excerpt) Read more at knoxnews.com ...
if the man is guilty he IS guilty. he is an adult, he has free will, he was smart enough to do this, and he knew the consequences.......my question is, is he in custody or is he on the run? or are they watching him and gathering evidence.
the only mob I have noticed is the one out to smear Palin at any cost.
Hear!Hear!...you go girl!
Well said.
Update: The Tennessean confirms Democratic State Rep. Mike Kernell’s 20-year old son David is in custody for the hacking.
I can give you tips now. The main premise behind yahoo ID mining is that people are generally lazy and want a password that can be easily remembered, so when you come up with a list of passwords it is generally common words: enter, password, God, princess, yahoo, 123, qwerty, you get the idea. The programs were also made to automatically try the name as the password, which is also pretty common (login: Twink password: Twink). Not everybody uses words that simple but enough do to make it worth your while to load a list of 10,000 yahoo names along with 100 or so possible passwords and start your cracker running. By the time you ran through all the combintions you might have 25 to 100 hits.
The key to avoiding these programs is to use a password that isn't worth trying because the odds of hitting an ID are so small it isn't worth the trouble. So while the password asdf can find you a lot of IDs the password or asd1f isn't worth trying because the odds of a hit are so small. The simple addition of a number or random letter into a simple, easy to remember password can save you a lot of grief. If you use a name, common combination of numbers or a word that can be found in a dictionary as a password you're asking for trouble.
hmmm, consciousness of a crime and did it anyway....
supposed statement from hacker.........LINK
Maybe Biden plagiarized it.
I thought the guy used the password recovery process for people who forget their password. They ask lame questions like, where were you born? What high school did you go to? etc. And since she answered those truthfully, he was able to look up the info rather than guess passwords.
I always lie to those questions, so no one could figure mine out.
“Update: The Tennessean confirms Democratic State Rep. Mike Kernell’s 20-year old son David is in custody for the hacking.”
I’ve been waiting all day for that piece of news. Do you have a link to the article?
I just went to the Tennessean website and there was no mention of anybody in “custody.” They have two articles addressing the hacking, and both of them state David has been “contacted.”
He did, that is also a method of id mining called "infoing back". Early Yahoo users also used a program called ICQ, kind of an early chat program. They would put things like their birthday and zipcode on it, so you could see a Yahoo id, tie it to an ICQ id and then all you would have to do is guess the secret question. Do a google search for "Yahoo Rares" and you will see that yahoo ids are still commonly traded online.
BTW, any yahoo id trader worth his salt would have discarded Sarah Palin's id without even wasting their time looking into it because it would be considered common and worthless as a trade. Her id was targeted specifically to get her info. That is a huge difference between your typical yahoo id collector and this incident. ID collectors only want the ID, many of the older IDs don't even have active email addresses anymore (though you can activate them again).
I wonder how fast they would turn over the info is Barry's was hacked
“Dude, do you know who my dad is? You totally have to let me into this bar!”
......He looks like a computer nerd.....he lloks like they’ll love him in prison
..This punk 20 yr old thief is trying to steal her private information."
Quoted for truth. Go Vols!
I’m out of Scooby snacks but will be stocked up again on Saturday.
I would expect it to be all over Fox and I have seen nothing.
Brit mentioned it, but didn’t name names yet.
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