palin e-mail hacker sentenced to 1 year, 1 day

[spanone]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A former University of Tennessee college student who hacked into Sarah Palin's e-mail during the 2008 presidential campaign was sentenced Friday to a year and a day with the judge recommending the term be served in a halfway house, not prison.

Federal Judge Thomas W. Phillips also said David Kernell, who was a 20-year-old economics major when he deduced the answers to security questions and read e-mail in Palin's private account, should get mental health treatment.
Court filings said Kernell had suffered from depression since he was 11.

Kernell, who smiled when the sentence was announced, earlier apologized to Palin and her family. He said his mistake will affect him for the rest of his life.

The judge rejected a recommendation from prosecutors, who had argued for 18 months in prison. Prosecutors said outside court that they were satisfied with the sentence.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40152249/ns/politics-more_politics/

[Ian David]

1. Just long enough to keep him from ever voting in an election in some states. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

3. Can one vote in a Fascist state??

Some believe we are not far from that.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. It was a felony conviction so any number of rights are now forfeit..............nt

[slackmaster]

2. Good. I hate people who pry into other peoples' stuff illegally.

:nuke:

[realisticphish]

4. yeah, I don't have a great deal of sympathy

that said, I think the sentence was about right. Actual prison time would seem excessive, considering all he did (AFAIK) is change her passwords and inconvenience her

[blondeatlast]

5. I loathe the victim, but I agree that such "hijinks" should be criminal. However,

I don't believe the sentence was appropriate since he will likely lose his voting rights for it.

[gratuitous]

6. Time served by Scooter Libby: 0 days

Justice is served.

[librechik]

7. ...but the republican Senate staffers who hacked Democratic computers for 18 months

gets a slap on the wrist and who knows what next (probably a cushy job)


ON EDIT:
Manuel Miranda is now a bigwig with his own "fund"
http://www.mirandafund.com/

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Memogate


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/05/politics/05LEAK.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=



----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard M. Smith" <[e-mail]>
To: "BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS. COM" <[e-mail]>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:25 PM
Subject: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate

>
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/22/infiltration_of_fi
les_
> seen_as_extensive?mode=PF
>
> Infiltration of files seen as extensive
> Senate panel's GOP staff pried on Democrats
> By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 1/22/2004
>
> WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary
> Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring
> secret
strategy
> memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate
> officials
told
> The Globe.
>
> From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP
> committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to
> access restricted Democratic communications without a password.
> Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking
> points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial
> nominees Democrats would
fight --
> and with what tactics.
>
> The office of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle has already
> launched
an
> investigation into how excerpts from 15 Democratic memos showed up in
> the pages of the conservative-leaning newspapers and were posted to a

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Maybe he can quit jail halfway through his sentence

Palin quit before her term was finished.

[realisticphish]

9. haha

the outside world needed him, and he heeded the call...