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Alleged Sarah Palin hacker, Kernell to wait another six months for trial by Robert McMillan, Security Blanket Tue, 2009-10-27 23:32 Topic(s): Data Protection It shouldn't come as a surprise, given all the motions flying before Judge C. Clifford Shirley, but alleged Sarah Palin hacker David Kernell's trial has been moved back six months. It was set to start today, but it turns out the judge moved it to April 20 2010 a few weeks back. Looks like there are about a dozen motions before the judge right now, including five motions to dismiss the indictment. Kernell was fingered as the...

How the Palin email hacker suspect was caught Thomas Lifson September 20, 2008 TGDaily, a tech site, explains how the suspected Palin email hacker, 20-year-old David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell, was caught. He used a proxy server supposed to anonymize his identity, but the owner was quite upset at being used to cover illegal activities, and was also contacted by the FBI. Read the further details here. It is obvious from posts the hacker made that he was fully conscious of breaking the law. There is some...