FBI Pigs Raid Apartment Of Suspected Palin E-Mail Hacker!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:51 pm

The wily, if careless, hacker who weaseled his way into Governor
Palin's private Yahoo! e-mail account may now be in the cross-hairs of
the FBI. According to witnesses on the scene, the apartment of David
Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee who is suspected of
the hack, was raided by the FBI after the agency obtained a search
warrant. The agents broke up a party to search the residence and issued
subpoenas to Kernell's three roommates. According to some witnesses,
Kernell fled the scene, but details surrounding the events are a bit
murky.

The hacker, who broke into Palin's e-mail in-box, left a posting
late last week on a forum at 4chan explaining how he used publicly
available information to change the password for the account. Bloggers
and forum members were able to quickly associate the handle used on the
posting, rubico, with an e-mail address, rubico10@yahoo.com, which was
then connected to Kernell. Authorities were also able to identify the
IP address used to break into the account as belonging to Pavlov Media,
the ISP that provides access at Kernell's apartment complex.

Kernell has not been charged with any crimes as of yet, but a grand
jury hearing is set to begin this week. If convicted, he is expected to
serve little if any jail time and be charged with a misdemeanor, though
felony charges are possible.