Tennessee politician’s son suspected of hacking Palin’s e-mail
Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 09/18/2008 – 22:20.
By TREVOR AARONSON, Scripps Howard News Service
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee State Rep. Mike Kernell declined Thursday to respond to online allegations his son hacked into Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account.
“My son’s the one in question, and I can’t comment on him,” said Kernell, a Memphis Democrat.
Bloggers have alleged that David Kernell, 20, is the one who has claimed responsibility for breaking into the Alaska governor’s e-mail account.
The evidence is tenuous. In fact, one of the first blogs to allege the son of a Democratic politician was responsible, relied on e-mail tips and described its evidence as “pretty thin.”
…David Kernell excelled at chess while at Germantown (Tenn.) High School and won the 2004 Tennessee Open Scholastic Chess Championship. Internet searches show someone uses the handle rubico on chess Web sites.
In addition, an inactive blog, with one post dated May 2004, included rubico as a username. Its author identified himself as a chess player from Memphis named David.
Here is the full story: http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/36447
also the new password he created wsa “popcorn”
his last name is Kernell
a little joke there.
Actually there two issues:
1. The obvious one is hacking into another person’s e-mail.
2. But the other issue is why the governor is using a commercial server and the state server to handle e-mail – it is a way of circumventing FOIA and other open government laws. She’s not the only one doing so.
anon 10:29
according to the guy who broke into the account there was NOTHING in there which addresses your concern about government business. it was personal stuff and scheduling
The weasel was disappointed that he didn’t find anything
So what if she had a personal email account? If you have a business email account, do you do all your personal stuff in there? Of course not. What’s unusual to have at least three email accounts: one business, one personal and one for spam when signing up for various stuff on the internet?
That dirty son of a democrat!
Was it David Kernell who cracked his way into Sarah Palin’s email?
Answer, in short: very unlikely.
All the blogs have made some considerable leaps in logic to come to the conclusion they have, and when the IP is traced, we’ll know for sure.
As for the claims that “popcorn” is a joke on his name, it happens to be a very popular password for sharing things among friends on that site, and it goes years back.
Secondly, no one in their right mind would post their real name on those imageboards, nevertheless a trackable username. Trying to find this person by username is just silly, even if the “confession” poster is actually the one who really did the deed (of which there’s no substantial proof).
And third, how do you extrapolate rubico10@yahoo.com from “Rubico” with 100% confidence?
The “sleuths” who are working on this are foaming at the mouth, but their attacks on Mike and David Kernell are, as of yet, unjustified.
Just thought you should know.
~Anon
Ok guys, I found out the real hacker. You can find him here:
http://www.last.fm/user/Rubico
Since his name is Rubico, it must be the guy.
Or maybe it was that river in Italy that hacked into the account? ARRRGHH! Back to the research . . .