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Want Sarah Palin's personal emails?

It's been amended, maybe you should check out the amendments.

I also didn't realized the hacker had been identified, caught, charged, given due process, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced?
 
Hero1000 said:
The dude is still going to jail.
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I'm not disputing that fact.

What I'm ranting about is that Palin is gonna get a slap on the wrist and this young man's life will be ruined for what? Something I consider to be quite negligible. If someone were to break into my e-mail, I wouldn't be angry with the perpetrator. I'd be angry with myself for not making my account more secure.
 
Alyssum said:
It's been amended, maybe you should check out the amendments.

I also didn't realized the hacker had been identified, caught, charged, given due process, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced?
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That's the mos recent version of the statute. And he will be.
 
I don't think anyone is saying he shouldn't be in trouble for breaking the law. Just how much trouble.
 
Alyssum said:
It's been amended, maybe you should check out the amendments.

I also didn't realized the hacker had been identified, caught, charged, given due process, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced?
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There are only public speculations as to who the perp is. The ED article I linked to earlier has leads.
 
Conchaga said:
I'm not disputing that fact.

What I'm ranting about is that Palin is gonna get a slap on the wrist and this young man's life will be ruined for what? Something I consider to be quite negligible. If someone were to break into my e-mail, I wouldn't be angry with the perpetrator. I'd be angry with myself for not making my account more secure.
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The reason for the law is that a lot of unsophisticated people are using the internet, and they need to be protected. Almost everyone knows it's wrong to access another person's email account without permission. And, obviously, it's 1000x worse to access the account of a public figure as important (unfortunately) as Sarah Palin. The perpetrator may be young enough such that his judgment isn't great, but he pretty clearly flouted the law and therfore deserves some punishment.

As for Palin, yeah, she's an idiot, but that's no excuse for vigilantism.

If you don't like that, well, write your congressman.
 
Hero1000 said:
If you don't like that, well, write your congressman.
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Writing your congressman in this situation is about as effective as writing "Sara Palin is a criminal" on your naked body and standing in his office. It'll get about the same reaction.

Congressman: "How much to let me write that on your mother's vagina?"
 
Mentalist said:
Yes! Let's utterly destroy some student hackers life for hacking an E-Mail account! Woo!
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It took Bush 8 years to destroy the middle class and drive our economy into the ground. So cut her some slack, she has to start destroying things somewhere. She has big boots to fill. ;)
 
WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury has indicted the son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker in connection with the hacking of the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, Tenn., the son of state Rep. Mike Kernell, was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Clifford Shirley, according to a statement from the Justice Department.

David Kernell was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Knoxville for intentionally accessing without authorization the e-mail account of Palin, Alaska's governor, the Justice Department said.

Kernell, an economics major at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release.

His father, a Memphis Democrat, is chairman of Tennessee's House Government Operations Committee. Mike Kernell has said he had nothing to do with the hacking incident.

The indictment against David Kernell alleged that on Sept. 16 he reset the password to Palin's personal e-mail account to gain access to it. Authorities say Kernell then read the contents of the account and made screenshots of the e-mail directory, e-mail content and other personal information, later posting some of the information to a public Web site.

The Justice Department said the case was being prosecuted by section chief Michael DuBose and trial attorney Mark Krotoski of the criminal division's computer crime and intellectual property section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Weddle of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The FBI's Anchorage and Knoxville field offices investigated the case.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_el_pr/palin_hacked
 
Indictment is just that. An accusation. It will be interesting to see where this goes in trial. Thanks for posting this, even though you're a complete dipshit.
 
His dad's a politician. He's only 20 years-old. He didn't steal any money or property (the reason for the creation of the statute for which he's being punished). He 'hacked' (fumbled into) an e-mail account on a public server. This is probably his first offense. Also, he's somewhat of a hero to the Dems. Let's face it, the kid's gonna have to do some community service and pay a fine. I'll be shocked if they throw the book at him. Shocked.
 
I wouldn't be suprised. It's going to lok pretty bad that he was responsible for publicizing the contents of Palin's email in addiion to hacking it.
 
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