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Son of Dem. Tennessee State Representative Sought By FBI In Palin Email Hack

FBI agents executed a search warrant Sunday at the apartment of University of Tennessee student David Kernell in connection with the hack of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's private Yahoo account.

Kernell is the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell who, when reached by wired.com last week at his home in Memphis, declined to discuss the matter. picked by ImNotBlue 1 year ago

tags Palin hack Kernell Yahoo Democrats FBI

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10	siennabl...

1 year ago

That poor kid had no clue what he did ... 47 years ago I would have most likely lit up the internet myself ... probably tying to get in good with his dad.

oh wait, Gore had not invented the web yet in 1961, and I was stationed in Turkey anyway. We only had one computer, it took up a football field, and the tubes kept blowing out. :)

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14	shep182

1 year ago

« siennablue : That poor kid had no clue what he did ... 47 years ago I would have most likely lit up the internet myself ... probably tying to get in good with his dad.

oh wait, Gore had not invented the web yet in 1961, and I was stationed in Turkey anyway. We only had one computer, it took up a football field, and the tubes kept blowing out. :)

"Hacking" back then included a fire axe...

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10	siennabl...

1 year ago

« shep182 : "Hacking" back then included a fire axe...

That kid wasn't hacking, he was guessing.

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26	gammerus

1 year ago

The kid also posted the password on the /b/

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42	2manyuse...

1 year ago

« siennablue : That kid wasn't hacking, he was guessing.

It was a bit more than "guessing" it was exploiting the loophole of the "security" of "forgot password" options.

The problem is that many of the so called security questions are not that secure.

Things like date of birth, middle name, place of birth, where did you meet your spouse, name of pet, etc can often times be easily found on the net.

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10	siennabl...

1 year ago

« 2manyusernames : It was a bit more than "guessing" it was exploiting the loophole of the "security" of "forgot password" options.

The problem is that many of the so called security questions are not that secure.

Things like date of birth, middle name, place of birth, where did you meet your spouse, name of pet, etc can often times be easily found on the net.

You're right it was more than simple guessing, it's just that I have a more technically intense view of hacking.

Would you accept .. detailed, painstaking, meticulous, thorough, conscientious, rigorous guessing? :)

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