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Hunt for Palin hacker shaping up to be simple case
Associated Press (excerpt) ^ | September 23, 2008 | Lara Jakes Jordan

Posted on 09/23/2008 12:28:28 AM PDT by HAL9000

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WASHINGTON - The hunt for the hacker who broke into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account is shaping up to be a remarkably simple investigation, by the standards of major cybersecurity whodunits.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: davidkernell; hacker; kernell; mccainpalin; palin
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1 posted on 09/23/2008 12:28:28 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

David Kernell ...


2 posted on 09/23/2008 12:30:10 AM PDT by LowOiL (In Transition)
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To: HAL9000
is shaping up to be a remarkably simple investigation

Oh, good, then you can get back to your months-long investigation of Obama's ties to Bill Ayers.

3 posted on 09/23/2008 12:33:35 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Fearing an Obama planet :()
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That’s because he’s a 20 year old Obot that rooms with other losers and probably works in fast food. His democratic state senator father sure filled him with hate, didn’t he? We’ll be seeing a lot more of this kind of thing before November gets here, I imagine.


4 posted on 09/23/2008 12:34:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: HAL9000
I love how the first paragraphs are about how this is no big deal, like that's the story.

Imagine, if you will, if this happened to Biden or Obama--where in the story would this paragraph be, swapping Democrat for Republican:

In what may be a significant break in the case, the FBI searched the residence of the son of a Democratic state lawmaker in Tennessee over the weekend looking for evidence linking the young man to the break-in, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

5 posted on 09/23/2008 12:35:25 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Fearing an Obama planet :()
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No need to worry about looking any further at any tentacles from the Obama campaign. It’s just a simple, clean-cut quick wrap up! Old news! Just a rogue, misguided kid! Move along!

I don’t think so. LOL.


6 posted on 09/23/2008 12:35:30 AM PDT by KJC1
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To: HAL9000

I thought they caught the jerk who did this - some Obama supporter.


7 posted on 09/23/2008 12:39:31 AM PDT by hsalaw
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WASHINGTON - The hunt for the plumber who broke into Democrat vice presidential candidate’s Watergate Hotel room is shaping up to be a remarkably simple investigation, by the standards of major cybersecurity whodunits.

Fixed -— nothing to see here.


8 posted on 09/23/2008 12:46:46 AM PDT by BigBobber
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To: HAL9000

While not to the same level, this is a milder (and would have grown) version of watergate and we all know the media downplayed that.


9 posted on 09/23/2008 12:47:21 AM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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Do you guys remember when some Dem staffers left a memo on a shared drive that summed up the kinds of judges that all the special interests were asking Ted Kennedy to make sure to not confirm? Some Republican staffer reads it and turns it over, but the MSM acted as if he was some kind of hacker who had broken into a secret server and stolen internal Dem communications. Ted Kennedy called for an investigation into the ‘data theft’ and never commented on the fact that all these special interests were directly ordering Kennedy whose nominations he should try to quash. MSM ran with Kennedy’s view on the situation and they lost the important part of the story.


10 posted on 09/23/2008 1:01:09 AM PDT by Der_Hirnfänger
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To: HAL9000
Give them Sharia Law on the kid.

Sword + Hand = Obamaic Justice.

Buahahahahah!

11 posted on 09/23/2008 1:27:29 AM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (http://www.theobamafile.com/))
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The press don’t have time for Mailgate, they are too busy digging up more mud to sling on Sara Palin....


12 posted on 09/23/2008 3:59:59 AM PDT by just me (Looks like the MSM moonbats have been infected with rabies..)
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Which Left wing radio host will the MSM blame for this invasion of Palin’s privacy by a Left wing nut?


13 posted on 09/23/2008 4:26:41 AM PDT by syriacus (Under Bush, Dems controlled the Senate for MOST of the 107th Congress and for ALL of the 110th)
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To: HAL9000
Anyone else notice this:

Palin used "gov.sarah" in one of her Yahoo e-mail addresses she sometimes uses to conduct state business. The hacker targeted her separate "gov.palin" account.

This is only relevant to the story if your goal is to add to the confusion. If you're skimming you read "gov.sarah uses her personal email address to conduct state business"

14 posted on 09/23/2008 5:24:26 AM PDT by Malsua
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He committed a felony and should be prosecuted and suffer the full consequences for his crime. If he used the university’s computer network in committing this crime he should be kicked out of school.


15 posted on 09/23/2008 5:26:56 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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They should destroy this kid to serve as a warning to others who might get the same idea. Knowing this Justice Department, he’ll probably get a stern frowny face stamped on his hand and his dad will be a top US Senator in a few years.


16 posted on 09/23/2008 7:31:57 AM PDT by According2RecentPollsAirIsGood
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The FBI obtained logs Saturday establishing the connection from Gabriel Ramuglia of Athens, Ga., who operates an Internet anonymity service used by the hacker.

What the heck is an "Internet Anonymity Service"? And to what legitimate uses are there for such a service?

Ramuglia told the AP the FBI asked him to confirm that the address appeared in his records. Ramuglia said his logs showed the hacker visiting Yahoo's mail service, resetting Palin's password and announcing results of the break-in on a Web site where the hacking was first disclosed.

OK, so the owner of the "Internet Anonymity Service" rolls over like a trained dog when questioned by the FBI. So much for the 'anonymity' part of the service

"I think he just didn't realize the severity of what he was doing until afterwards," Ramuglia said.

Huh? Why publish this guy's comment on the crime his service helped facilitate? Of what value is his opinion? Minimizing the crime might also minimize the impact on his business, but there's still the matter of relevance the main story.

18 posted on 09/23/2008 3:09:08 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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And to what legitimate uses are there for such a service?

If you wanted to visit a web site, but did not want your true IP address to be recorded on their log files, you can use a service like ctunnel.com, as the hacker did. It's fairly simple to use with your web browser. Just go to that site and enter the URL of the web site you wish to visit anonymously.

In this case, the hacker violated the terms of service for CTunnel, so the operator apparently had no reservations about giving the information to the FBI.

19 posted on 09/23/2008 3:35:41 PM PDT by HAL9000 ("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
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Thanks. That clears it up. But isn’t the very purpose of the service sort of offered with a ‘Nod & a Wink’?


20 posted on 09/23/2008 3:44:38 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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