Palins eMail hacker just may be a Democratic representatives son

[audtatious]

Dem Lawmaker's Son Probed in Palin E-mail Case

The FBI is investigating the son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker as part of a probe into the illegal break-in of GOP vice-presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account.

David Kernell, a 20-year-old economics major at the University of Tennessee and the son of state Rep. Mike Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, had his apartment searched by FBI agents over the weekend, The Associated Press and Knoxville, Tenn., TV station WBIR report.

Unnamed witnesses to the search told WBIR that FBI agents broke up a party at the younger Kernell's apartment near campus and issued subpoenas to three of his roommates. Witnesses told the station that Kernell and his friends "fled the apartment when the FBI agents arrived."

The hacker, going by the screen name "Rubico," made claims that he broke into Palin's personal Yahoo e-mail account by tricking the system's security software into issuing him a new password, according to Wired.com. Bloggers were able to connect the "Rubico" name to David Kernell's university e-mail account last Thursday.

The hacker's public, yet anonymous confession, apparently allowed authorities to focus on the Tennessee college student.

"He might as well have taken a picture of his house and uploaded it," Ken Pfeil, an Internet security expert, told the AP.

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[Cold_Zero]

Wait, I thought it was only Republicans that subverted things like privacy and constitutional rights?

[AZhitman]

Now, had this been the other way around, we'd be hearing about it - Front page news, for sure.

More domestic terrorism from the Left. Gotta love it.

[NismoDriver240]

kids gunna get pwned. hard.

[S13_love]

Wait, I thought it was only Republicans that subverted things like privacy and constitutional rights?

Usually its them ....just kidding, but seriously

Its both parties that do something that subvert things like privacy and constitutional rights, one way or another

[marlin29311]

Now, had this been the other way around, we'd be hearing about it - Front page news, for sure.

More domestic terrorism from the Left. Gotta love it.

Agreed - clearly it's only a slap on the wrist for a lefty...

In all seriousness, GOP or Dem, anyone that does this should be prosecuted. It's one thing for the gov. to tap into things owned by terrorists or people who are threatening the general public, but it's another to do it just for the sake of trying to smear a public official that you don't like...

[HashiriyaS14]

For the record...

THIS particular Obama supporter in no way condones the hacking of people's email, be it Government officials or anyone else. I hope the person responsible goes to jail, and shame on any website that published the hacked information.

[AZhitman]

No need to go on record, Hash - Your character and credibility is watertight.

[audtatious]

For the record...

THIS particular Obama supporter in no way condones the hacking of people's email, be it Government officials or anyone else. I hope the person responsible goes to jail, and shame on any website that published the hacked information.

And I doubt Obama condones it either altho I'm sure a large number of his supporters would if it could help him get elected.

[96Qowner]

And in fariness, it looks like Dad knew absolutely nothing about it - not his fault.

Kids - whatcha gonna do.

[AZhitman]

Agreed.

NONE of this reflects on the candidate personally, in my opinion.

But just like the demonstrators at the DNC, it DOES reflect poorly on the supporters.

[wingFeather]

Let's see...

Democrats riot in the streets outside the RNC.

Democrats try to raise hell inside the RNC.

Democrats hack email accounts.

Yeah, that is a group I want to align myself with