{"id":704,"date":"2008-10-08T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T14:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2008-10-08T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T18:38:06","slug":"newsflash-palin-e-mail-hacker-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/08\/newsflash-palin-e-mail-hacker-indicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsflash: Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.foxnews.com\/2008\/10\/08\/tennessee-man-indicted-hacking-palins-e-mail-account\/\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> that 20-year-old David Kernell of Knoxville, Tenn., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville for intentionally accessing without authorization the private e-mail account of Alaska governor Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n<p>Kernell is the son of Tenn. democratic state Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, he turned himself in to federal authorities for arrest today.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Malkin has more <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/10\/08\/palin-e-mal-hacker-suspect-indicted\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/10\/08\/suspected-palin-e-mail-hacker-indicted\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allahpundit asks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Any legal eagles (or techies, I guess) want to speculate on why it took the grand jury an extra three weeks to return the indictment? The last time I wrote about this, the FBI reportedly already had the IP logs in hand and had searched his dorm for corroborating evidence. What extra evidence would they have needed to produce to nudge the case over the line of probable cause?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a former cop and a techie there&#8217;s several reasons, first this is a high profile case that involves a vice presidential candidate&#8230; You can not make mistakes, everything has to be done &#8220;by the book&#8221;, all the T&#8217;s crossed and I&#8217;s dotted. Second the server logs and IP adresses can get you to the suspects front door but it&#8217;s forensic analysis of his or her computer that will established his or her guilt or innocence. Finally, cyber forensics is time consuming process.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI and Secret Service more then likely had a short list of suspects within a day or two&#8230; Connecting the all the dots to identify a &#8220;prime suspect&#8221; and establish probable cause for a search warrant takes days or even weeks. Ditto for conducting a proper forensic analysis of the suspects computer(s) and writing all the reports. All in all I think the FBI and Secret Service handled this case pretty well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/17\/sarah-palins-private-e-mail-account-hacked-updated\/\">Sarah Palin\u2019s Private E-mail Account Hacked<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/18\/palin-e-mail-hack-follow-up\/\">Palin E-mail Hack Follow-up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/palin-e-mail-hacking-update\/\">A Quick Update on the Palin E-mail Hacking Case<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is reporting that 20-year-old David Kernell of Knoxville, Tenn., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville for intentionally accessing without authorization the private e-mail account of Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Kernell is the son of Tenn. democratic state Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, he turned himself in to federal authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68,28,7,15],"tags":[208,203,204,83],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-crime","category-internet","category-politics","category-security","tag-david-kernell","tag-e-mail","tag-hacking","tag-sarah-palin","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-bm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3302,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/30\/palin-e-mail-hacker-convicted-on-two-counts\/","url_meta":{"origin":704,"position":0},"title":"Palin E-mail Hacker Convicted on Two Counts","author":"Jeff","date":"April 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A federal jury in Knoxville, Tennessee convicted David Kernell, the 22 year old son of Democratic State Representative, on two of four counts related to the intrusion into former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo! Mail account during the 2008 elections today: (Reuters) - A college student who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/crime\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3702,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/palin-e-mail-hacker-gets-one-year-sentence\/","url_meta":{"origin":704,"position":1},"title":"Palin E-mail Hacker Gets One-year Sentence","author":"Jeff","date":"November 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"David Kernell the 20 year old college student who was convicted of breaking into Sarah Palin's private e-mail account during\u00a0 the 2008 Presidential campaign has been sentenced to one year in prison: The former college student who guessed his way into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account during the 2008 U.S.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/crime\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1643,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/palin-e-mail-hacker-hit-with-additional-charges\/","url_meta":{"origin":704,"position":2},"title":"Palin E-mail Hacker Hit With Additional Charges","author":"Jeff","date":"March 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"David Kernell, the son of a Democratic Tennessee legislator, who was indicted for hacking into Gov. Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account during the last year's Presidential campaign has been hit with additional charges. The new charges are fraud, unlawful electronic transmission of material outside Tennessee and attempts to conceal records\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/crime\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":683,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/palin-e-mail-hacking-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":704,"position":3},"title":"A Quick Update on the Palin E-mail Hacking Case","author":"Jeff","date":"October 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a few weeks since Sarah Palin's private e-mail account was broken into and I'm sure many of you are curious about what's happening with the case. Unfortunately, I don't have any new information on the investigation or suspects... Michelle Malkin has confirmed the investigation is ongoing though: I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/crime\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":385,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/17\/sarah-palins-private-e-mail-account-hacked-updated\/","url_meta":{"origin":704,"position":4},"title":"Sarah Palin&#8217;s Private E-mail Account Hacked &#8211; Updated","author":"Jeff","date":"September 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Scroll For Updates... Network World and Wired are reporting that Sarah Palin's private Yahoo mail account has been hacked and that screenshots of messages have been posted on various web sites. 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