Comments on: Palin hacking roundup

By: Hi

Hi — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:10:03 +0000

This whole things seems so typical to me. I am not surprised at all. I have a good feeling it will take the kid 2 years for the trial to go through, and by that time he will just be let off with a misdemeanor and maybe some lean probation and bragging rights.

I enjoyed the hacking of Paris Hilton’s t-mobile account much more.

By: Xoomxoom

Xoomxoom — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:12:01 +0000

Easy-to-commit crimes shouldn’t be crimes at all.

Creating an obvious exploit is like inviting a vampire into your house.

They should just force this guy to drink a cup of bittergent for being affiliated with any political party.

By: blizzarddemon

blizzarddemon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:20:21 +0000

I wonder if in her conversations if she finally found Russia. XD

By: Zundfolge

Zundfolge — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:24:40 +0000

What I find frustrating about this case is that most of those that support him only support him because they hate McCain/Palin.

Had this guy hacked Obama’s email most of those that support him now would be calling for his execution.

Politics infects everything. Bleh.

By: jimmys

jimmys — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:58:24 +0000

“Those of you calling for harsher penalties because his dad is a democrat and Palin herself is a republican need to grow up. That’s not the way the law works. It’s ridiculous that the government is trying to charge him with a felony only because Palin is a VP candidate.”

No one has made that claim. My understanding of the indictment is that the reason for the felony charge is that instead of just “hacking” because he was studying internet security, he was motivated by the desire to cause severe emotional distress. His own words were that he wanted to derail the McCain/Palin campaign by publicly embarrassing Palin.

Wasn’t that Nixon’s motivation for the Watergate break-in: looking for dirt to derail his political opponents?

Anyway, Kernell’s own actions got him busted and his big mouth got him the felony charge.

By: Nitori

Nitori — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:06:34 +0000

BTW on McCain using the excuse of his war wounds on not being able to send email is BS.
I seen people who lost a limb and now have a prosthetic limb still do many of the same things they did before.
He may not be able to speed type but I’m sure he can use a mouse and dragon naturally speaking.
I seen the disabled use computers even write books.
Heck Steven Hawking uses a computer to talk and write books and he can hardly move.

By: Nitori

Nitori — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:59:19 +0000

In the US people are supposed to be people it doesn’t matter who the crime was committed against the penalties are the same.
He should only get a misdemeanor and nothing more since it was just a web mail account hack.
Those who are pushing for harsher penalties just because Palin is a VP candidate are immature and need to grow up.
Giving the guy a felony over this is a miscarriage no an abortion of justice.

By: the Wizard

the Wizard — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:04:19 +0000

I don’t know if anyone picked up on it, but this Kernell kid is going to UT Knoxville. FYI so did I and my daughter is a freshman this year.

So Tennessee may not be able to win an SEC football game but we seem to be turning out a nice crop of young hackers.

Cheers

By: john

john — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:20:36 +0000

Re: “about that: “Sorry to have to intrude with a fact or two.Mccain doesn’t use email because he is physically unable to type, due to war wounds.”

Yeah OK, that’s the BS Rove spouted”

Except that my source was Mccain himself in a video from a couple of months back. He has aides who keep him up to date with the information coming in via email. He does some email himself, but it is inconvenient for him and thus limited, due to his damaged arms. Sorry to step on your hate parade.

By: Shabadage

Shabadage — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:28:37 +0000

Those of you calling for harsher penalties because his dad is a democrat and Palin herself is a republican need to grow up. That’s not the way the law works. It’s ridiculous that the government is trying to charge him with a felony only because Palin is a VP candidate. If she was just a soccer mom, he’d be slapped with a misdemeanor. In this country, people are supposed to be people; regardless of what their (possible) position is. Don’t free David, but dammit don’t charge him with a felony either. Just another example of double standards which run rampant in this country.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:38:29 +0000

about that: “Sorry to have to intrude with a fact or two.Mccain doesn’t use email because he is physically unable to type, due to war wounds.”

Yeah OK, that’s the BS Rove spouted, but look at videos of mccain, he is nimble enough with his fingers, and while he might not be able to do the 10-finger speedtyping he’s is perfectly capable of typing, plus if he wasn’t there are aids to enable the handicapped you know, people who can’t move anything can operate computers and write whole books.

By: m1d1n1nja

m1d1n1nja — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:26:29 +0000

I find it interesting that palin has of all this a yahoo! account

*free david**

By: kebertxela

kebertxela — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:16:04 +0000

skills. you stupid script kiddies think looking up her info on wikipedia is skills? WOW… answer a couple of security questions and reset a password. I will say… this retard got everything that was coming to him. I attend the same school as this moron and I SURE wouldn’t call him a hacker. To prove his stupidity… he was “hacking” from his appartment going through a PUBLIC US PROXY. On top of that, he posted on 4chan which linked his email account to the user name. I will say, the proxy is the way to go however, he lives less than 1 block from the most densely populated wifi network in knoxville (the strip). There are AT LEAST 12+ public access points. My favorite “flub” that idiots like this come up with… is going to the extreme of spoofing their mac address, but leaving their hostname the same… not like that is an identifier. No worries of him being smart enough to spoof a mac though… let alone properly hide his IP… or NOT tie himself to his real email…

By: pip

pip — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:53:13 +0000

He may have very well ‘guessed’ the password to his high school network, but from what I could gather he most certainly did not ‘guess’ the information required to get into Palin’s Yahoo! account. He used skills.

By: john

john — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:43:50 +0000

Sorry to have to intrude with a fact or two.
Mccain doesn’t use email because he is physically unable to type, due to war wounds.

it_dude, if you disapprove of government reading your personal files, why is it ok for some non-government dirtbag with an agenda to do that?

From the hackers posted account, he spent significant time researching the answers to the challenge questions. He stated that his intent was malicious. The only reason anyone thinks this is ok is because the victim is a conservative. If this were Obama’s email, there would be much more uproar.