Patterico's Pontifications

9/23/2008

Alleged Palin E-Mail Hacker Either Really Guilty Or Totally Framed

Filed under: 2008 Election — Patterico @ 12:37 am



I’m not one to jump to conclusions about guilt.

But either David Kernell is guilty, or he has been framed by experts.

22 Responses to “Alleged Palin E-Mail Hacker Either Really Guilty Or Totally Framed”

  1. Clearly Todd Palin and his band of confederates hacked this poor Kernell. It’s an astonishing and racist blow to the union.

    Juan (4cdfb7)

  2. He’s from Tennessee. Does that make him a Southern Kernell?

    Ah say! That’s a joke, son!

    Apogee (366e8b)

  3. Excuse me? Has nobody NOTICED that all of the stories in the MSM about this stupid email break-in describes it something like:

    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.

    Do we have any confirmation on that? I know we have a lot of leftists confidently asserting it, just as they confidently asserted that Trig Palin was Sarah Palin’s grandson. What evidence is there that Gov. Palin conducted state business on a personal email account?

    Because if in fact Gov. Palin has done nothing wrong, we’re allowing our satisfaction with the hacker being the son of a Democrat, undoubtedly a very big man in the Tennessee state legislature, to blind us to an attempt to inculcate a meme. The Democrats have done this before. The “Big Lie” is nothing but a lie repeated and unchallenged. Don’t let them smear Sarah if she doesn’t deserve it.

    Voice of Reason (ea3ea4)

  4. VOR – The hacker himself related that there was nothing to the emails that he copied and posted.

    Apogee (366e8b)

  5. Guilty! GUILTY!! GUILTY!!!

    Icy Truth (171310)

  6. tried of it hang him

    bob (93612a)

  7. I just hope that if it is him he gets a reasonable fair shake. Sounds like he has no record and has not been caught doing this before.

    I think that he is a 20 year old who happens to be unlucky enough to have a father who is a state rep and is a democrat. No grand political conspiracies or nefarious shadow group named Anonymous behind it – just a young man who broke the law using a technique so amateurish it almost guaranteed he would be found out.

    For those of us who have children that are in college or in their early twenties I think there may be a little more empathy.

    voiceofreason2 (38f560)

  8. last comment grabbed by filter?! Does the word An*&&mous get flagged?

    voiceofreason2 (38f560)

  9. oops – time for my second cup of coffee. sorry about that.

    voiceofreason2 (38f560)

  10. It’s just as much her fault. After all, she was wearing immodest clothes, er, using poor Yahoo security.

    jim2 (a9ab88)

  11. I blame Karl Rove. And, Kyoto.

    Racists.

    JD (41e64f)

  12. “Do we have any confirmation on that?”

    There were stories from before the hack describing this, a search might yield those. The hacker said he found work items in the Inbox. If you look at wikileaks, they also have subject headers of work items:

    http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/VP_contender_Sarah_Palin_hacked

    people seem stuck on the fact that in the hacker’s opinion, there was nothing damaging there. That’s being extrapolated to cover using insecure yahoo accounts for business. Even though the hacker said he found work items on there. After all I’ve heard about this hacker, I’d be wary of his opinion.

    “It’s just as much her fault. After all, she was wearing immodest clothes, er, using poor Yahoo security.”

    In the security world, there have been cases of people being held liable for using poor security, such as TJ Maxx. In this case, liability or not, the lesson is clear: just don’t do it. There’s no reason to be insecure. It’s one of the reason using a yahoo account is a bad idea.

    imdw (89dda0)

  13. The last screenshot at gawker also has what looks like work on it:

    http://gawker.com/5051193/sarah-palins-personal-emails

    this kid didn’t know what he was doing, or even what he was looking for.

    imdw (89dda0)

  14. Why is it that this meme has been accepted that there was sensitive work related material in her yahoo account?

    JD (41e64f)

  15. I don’t know if it is ‘sensitive,’ but it does look like work. Maybe people imagine everything the AK governor does is sensitive?

    oh also, if this is a purely personal account, then I’m just going to have to take a sec to laugh at her naming her personal account with a ‘gov.’ I mean, do her personal relationships call her ‘governor’? haha.

    imdw (20f608)

  16. So, since there is no evidence of any sensitive material being found at that account, the entire meme that has been propogated about this is complete and utter hooey. Thanks for clearing that up, imdw.

    JD (41e64f)

  17. Don’t play the Obots game. Watergate wasn’t about the ‘meat’ the burglars found. The Rockefeller memo leak wasn’t about the Dems engaging in a plot to damage the President.

    So why is THIS about the content? Let’s turn it around: why does O and his bots want to give terrorists more rights than a VP candidate?

    Bel Aire (e59286)

  18. Democratic State Rep. John Deberry said “Mike Kernell [David Kernell’s father] is your quintessential Boy Scout.”

    You mean the same Boy Scouts who held a congressional charter since 1916 that the Democrats attempted to revoke?

    These Democrats should be flogged and impeached for simultaneously portraying the Boy Scouts as a high standard while attempting to undermine them.

    Or perhaps John Deberry meant that Mike Kernell should lose his charter as a congressman.

    George (d57b1d)

  19. Hey, it was a prank…you know, one of those things that all kids do nowadays…

    /sarc

    fmfnavydoc (0dd45c)

  20. “So, since there is no evidence of any sensitive material being found at that account, the entire meme that has been propogated about this is complete and utter hooey. ”

    There is evidence of government business on there. I don’t know if it is sensitive, or how you would define that term. Some of it looks like drafts, which I don’t think would be releasable under open government laws. “sensitive”? Maybe. I’m trying to imagine what ‘sensitive’ business the governor of alaska would have besides things like that.

    We can’t declare the meme ‘hooey’ on the scant evidence we’ve seen about what is contained in her personal accounts named “gov.”

    imdw (b7d9b5)

  21. The GOP has to have someone on payroll who can train these powerhouse personalities on how to create complex passwords.

    Sarah Palin has a lot more to worry about right now than all of her old passwords. She’s got to be tough and these distractions just get in her way.

    rfp (f4c1e0)

  22. imdw,

    Are we even sure Alaska has rules about not letting you use a personal e-mail account for anything business related? I mean, I know that here at work when you try and remote-in to the mail server, it only works 50% of the time… When we send people to China, they often use a personal e-mail account simply because they are accessible when not in the office…

    Scott Jacobs (a1c284)


Powered by WordPress.

Page loaded in: 0.0895 secs.