DOJ LOOPHOLE ? Feds Search Apt / hacker's IP address 'doesn't look consistent' with state legislator's son ? "The legality of Palin’s behavior still is in dispute. The wisdom is not. It was stupid of her to use those accounts for any state business"
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consistent' with state legislator's son ? "The legality of Palin’s
behavior still is in dispute. The wisdom is not. It was stupid of her
to use those accounts for any state business"
Feds Search College Apartment in Palin Hack Case
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330879,00.asp
9.22.08 by Brian Heater
Is a 20-year-old college student a threat to national Webmail
security? FBI agents searched his residence at the University of
Tennessee over the weekend, in connection with the recent hacking of
vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's Yahoo! e-mail account,
Knoxville's WBIR-TV reported.
When the agents descended on his apartment at midnight, a party was
being held on the premises; the student and several friends reportedly
fled. Acting on a search warrant, the agents asked partygoers to wait
outside as they took photographs.
The student's name is David Kernell, and he's the son of Tennessee
Democratic state representative, Mike Kernell.
Kernell the younger was widely assumed to be responsible for the hack,
after a post to 4chan detailed how the user got into Palin's account.
The poster's name reflected Kernell's e-mail address, while the IP
provider of the hacker was the same as the one that provides service
to Kernell's dorm.
According to Wired, whoever is charged for the crime will likely be
pinned with a misdemeanor. Or they could walk away scot free, too,
thanks to a potential DOJ loophole.
DOJ LOOPHOLE
It's important to find out what happened. Not important to lynch
suspects.
VERY IMPORTANT to consider careless VP nominees poor judgement
regarding secrurity.
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subpoenaes: three of his roommates could testify before a
Chattanooga grand jury...
The plot thickens:
Report: FBI searches Tenn. student's apartment in Palin hacking case
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9115238&intsrc=hm_list
But proxy service operator says hacker's IP address 'doesn't look
consistent' with state legislator's son
excerpts:
...Ramuglia said the FBI told him they also reached out to Yahoo! to
ask for help. The hope is that information from Yahoo! can be matched
with something in the proxy site’s logs, identifying the hacker. The
logs from both Ctunnel.com and Yahoo! were to be delivered to the FBI
last week, Ramuglia said.
...“As long as they didn’t use a second proxy, I should be able to
find them,” Ramuglia said. “I don’t think they were careful enough to
do that.”
...The break-in of Palin’s private account is especially significant
because Palin sometimes uses non-government e-mail to conduct state
business. Previously disclosed e-mails indicate her administration
embraced Yahoo! accounts as an alternative to government e-mail, which
could possibly be released to the public under Alaska’s Open Records
Act.
...At the time, critics of Palin’s administration were poring over
official e-mails they had obtained from the governor’s office looking
for evidence of improper political activity.
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Imagine how shocked we were to learn that the nominee to the second
highest office in the land, who if elected would be privy to all sorts
of highly classified information, was silly enough to use an unsecured
private Web-based e-mail account to conduct official business.
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/47187-1.html
"The legality of Palin’s behavior still is in dispute. The wisdom is
not. It was stupid of her to use those accounts for any state
business"
22-Sep-08
Blogosphere lynches 'Palin hacker,' minus evidence
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/09/blogopshere-sha.html
Sep 19 2008
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Wick Allison, former publisher of the National Review, has endorsed
Barack Obama and the reason is pretty interesting to read. So is his
critique of what political conservatism has become in this country:
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/09/former_national_review_publish.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
I certainly agree with the part about the Federalist Papers. Someone
should ask Sarah Palin a question or two about the Federalist Papers.
The result would undoubtedly be hilarious.
National Review (NR) is a biweekly magazine and web site, founded by
the late author William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955 and based in New York
City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and
influential magazine and web site for Republican/conservative news,
commentary, and opinion."