Closing in on the Palin e-mail hacker Updated
Scroll for updates…conflicting info on Kernell
The Tennessean reports what blogs have been buzzing about all day:
The son of state Rep. Mike Kernell has been contacted by authorities in connection with a probe into the hacking of the personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Kernell confirmed on Thursday.
Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, said his 20-year-old son David had been contacted by authorities investigating the hacking of Palin’s personal email account.
AdvertisementThe FBI and the Secret Service started a formal investigation on Wednesday into the hacking.
David Kernell is a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Mike Kernell said he spoke to his son on Thursday, as he does on a regular basis.
Kernell otherwise declined to comment, or discuss his son’s whereabouts and whether he was in custody.
Computerworld gives credit to this blog for telling the story behind the e-mail hacking, and reports that the Web proxy firm Ctunnel is now working with the feds, as owner Gabriel Ramuglia had promised he would do if asked:
The Webmaster of a proxy service called Ctunnel.com, which may have been used by a hacker to illegally access the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is working with law enforcement authorities to track down the person behind the break-in.
Gabriel Ramuglia, the Athens, Ga.-based Webmaster of Ctunnel, said today that URLs in screenshots of Palin’s e-mail — photos were posted online yesterday on 4chan.org and other sites — suggested that whoever accessed her Yahoo! account had used his proxy service.
Ramuglia said in an interview that he was contacted by FBI officials last night and asked to retain computer logs of the last few days’ activity on his service and make sure nothing is deleted. Ramuglia, who normally stores only a week’s worth of log data, said he would not have deleted anything anyway because of the illegal nature of what had happened.
Ramuglia is now in the process of importing more than 80GB worth of log data into a database for analysis. He said he’s reasonably confident he can help authorities sift through the logs and trace access back to the originating IP address — especially because the self-professed hacker has admitted using just one proxy service to access Palin’s account.
The alleged hacker said in an online posting that he gained access by simply resetting the password to Palin’s Yahoo! e-mail account using its password recovery service. That’s according to a description of events posted on a blog site run by conservative syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin…
The Associated Press is still not cooperating with the feds. But it has published a new story about Ramuglia’s cooperation — and has recycled the story behind the hacking as an “original” report.
Oh, yeah, and they’re still blaming Sarah Palin for making herself a victim of the crime.
Keep carrying that Obama water, AP.
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Update: Conflicting info on whether Kernell is being investigated. See The Other McCain for the twists and turns.
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Much as I’d like to see his index fingers cut off so he can’t type, I don’t see any way that this guy will get more than a few days probation, and then only if he’s dumb enough to take a plea.
Bright side if we are REALLY lucky…maybe he’ll get to share a cell with Charlie Rangel!!
That would be better than Rochelle… The 6′8″, 300 lb sweetheart of a cell mate who asks little rubico if he wants to be the husband or the wife.
No, the “liberal” is a given unless otherwise noted.
And only slightly OT – concerning McCain and email:
4USA said: Too late. We’ll never forgive you for Algore the Insane.
Oh, yeah. I tend to forget about The Gorebot because he’s so completely un-Tennessee.
Look on the bright side – we gave y’all Aretha Franklin, Morgan Freeman, and Dolly Parton!!
I know in my heart it’s the right thing to do, but forgiveness is one of the main reasons conservatives have problems with their message.
In my perfect world Sarah would go up to that kid and slap him on national TV.
Prettyboy is going to get Shawshanked in prison. I hope it was worth it!
Am I still not posting?
The Tennessean article linked has changed significantly. This is now the article:
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State rep confirms that son is subject of Palin e-mail chatter
By THEO EMERY • Staff Writer • September 18, 2008
State Rep. Mike Kernell confirmed Thursday that his son, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, is at the center of heated Internet discussion into the hacking of the personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, confirmed that it is his 20-year-old son, David, who is being widely named on Internet blogs and chatrooms in connection with an unfolding story about Palin’s hacked e-mail accounts.
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The FBI and the Secret Service started a formal investigation on Wednesday into the hacking.
David Kernell is a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Mike Kernell said he spoke to his son on Thursday, as he does on a regular basis.
Kernell otherwise declined to comment, or discuss his son’s whereabouts.
(end quote)
And the Obama Campaign is still incredibly silent on this entire affair.
Sometimes the quietest really are the ones screaming the loudest.
On September 18th, 2008 at 5:55 pm, TheCorruptedLamb said:
I hope I would have written better: I would at least have been able to capitalize and spell properly in something seen by everyone. (Nowadays I blame spelling errors on my astigmatism. ) Not unlike WarEagle82 (#54), I was reading Steinbeck and Dostoevsky about age 15–by my own choice, not for school.
Is the Obama campaign’s David Plouffe connected to alleged hacker David Kernell?
This website may have evidence of a connection between David Plouffe of the Obama campaign and alleged hacker of Sarah Palin’s emails David Kernell, son of Tennessee Democratic Representative Mike Kernell:
http://www.mikefrancesa.com/wordpress/?p=1210
The power of the blogosphere is amazing. I am still awed by the prowess of the reader who unearthed all this.
According to Ace, David Kernell has been institutionalized twice meaning he will walk on this one.
I had a gut feeling this will fizzle.
The crapweasel said
Already this asshat has learned the liberal mantra of playing the victim.
Question for the crapweasel:
How depresssed are you going to be in your new institution when your supervisors wear guns and badges instead of white coats?
If Obama’s camp is involved, I say, “Thow the book at them.” If it is a 20 year old kid, let’s give him 5 years community service. Don’t throw me under the bus. It’s the “mom” in me …
Don’t make the mistake of confusing forgiveness with absolution.
People should be forgiven. However, that does not absolve them of what they have done, nor should they not be punished.
She should forgive him. However, he should still be punished, as should everyone else committing these heinous acts of rumor-mongering, libel and slander, to the fullest extent of the law.
No one should be surprised in the least that the MSM is making this out to be all GOVERNOR Palin’s fault.
After all, it is the Liberal’s way with any victim of a crime. They are constantly claiming victimhood for the perpetrator, making it always seem like it is the victim who is to blame.
From a break-in of someone’s house:
“They should have had better locks/burglar alarm/less items of value. They were just asking for trouble”
To a mugging on the street, ‘What were they doing in that part of town/should not have dressed that way/should not have carried that much money/jewelry”
To murder: “Well, you can’t blame the guy. He was abused as a child/was called names in school/is confused about sexuality and was made to feel that way because of archaic Conservatives and their beliefs”
So now, they are harping on GOVERNOR Palin for using the same e-mail that MILLIONS of others use, including countless people who mock her now.
Never put the blame for a crime on the actual person who committed it. It is never their fault. Blame the victim for being too stupid to not have prevented it in the first place.
This is why our prisons are full beyond capacity with innocent men and women.
Don’t think so? just ask them, they will tell you just how innocent they are. It should be the victims in there, not the criminals.
Ooops. Wrong thread. Hard to keep up.
Isn’t it nice to know how little regard yahoo has for its own email customers that a security breach like this could even be possible?
The possible implication that the culprit is a TN Dem state rep’s son is an intriguing “kernel” of insight.
It’s nice to know that the worldwide hacker brigade think that breaching people’s personal privacy is such a major laugh. I would love more of these cyber anarchists to answer for their crimes.
If this “kid” thought he was pulling off some lark or stunt and would never be found out then he’s the one who really is clueless.
@leepro:
Rep. Kernell’s website is already offline, provided that the link was correct… Too late to make any screenshots…
I believe you’re barking up a couple wrong trees there, fellas.
First, the site that links to the leftwingcracker blog isn’t associated/owned/run by either father or son. The son just posted there a few times. It would be like trying to make “linkage” (bad pun, I know) between any of us here and the sites Michelle has on her blogroll.
Second, the father’s personal site looks like it was just one of those long abandoned personal sites that people set up using a very generic template, but the person doesn’t have the time, interest or knowledge to really do anything with it. In fact, I just checked now and as of this moment, you can buy the father’s domain name. That means he didn’t bother to renew it some time after Nov 2007.
But you can easily view what little there was of a site using what’s called the “Wayback Machine”, the Internet Archive that – well – archives websites and their changes. You can check it out here:
Wayback – MikeKernell.Com
I checked the archived website for anything nefarious when this story first broke, but I got nuthin’. Other than he’s a Democrat, which is always disburbing news.
No need to apologize, TW, you had nothing to do with producing it; a Democrat Dad did. Your state was simply the unwary host of a parasite.
The irony here is that your state was also host for the parasite who claims to have invented the internet and, in so doing, helped entrap this latest parasite.
Yep! When they break into your house and steal the furniture–It’s your fault for living in that neighborhood.
GO SARAH
Don’t feel bad TW our state gave the world Hillary and are partly to blame for the Obamas.
Leftists: They must go down. They must go down hard.
We should start a pool.
I say that Matt Damon will play the role of the hacker in the new blockbuster thriller on how the valiant patriotic college kid fought the evil Palinator who was trying to bring down the country by helping the satanic capitalist-roader McBusHitler to win the election so he could tear up the constitution, declare himself king and re-enslave the black race.
I’m sure there are dozens of screenwriters working on it as we speak.
If this guy’s son was so “troubled” with depression, do you think he should have stayed home and tended to his family instead of running for political office?
Has anyone in the media come to that conclusion? Or does it only apply to conservative women?
Hey chapoutier ! How about a class action lawsuit against yahoo?
I’ve used them once and since I heard they gave up Palin’s password so easy, I’ve been afraid to e-mail.
I’ve lost a lot of money because I run a spam forwarding e-mail company.