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Sarah Palin Hacking

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University of Tennessee student David C. Kernell is obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In September 2008 the UT economics major decided he was going to have a little fun at the expense of then vice

presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Kernell hacked into the former governor's Yahoo! email account--the one she used to communicate with her family during the 2008 presidential campaign.



Now defendant Kernell is facing four federal felony counts, including identify theft and wire fraud. If found guilty on all four counts, the 22-year-old son of a Democratic state lawmaker could face up to 50 years in prison.



Palin's Yahoo! Security Question Was Easy for Kernell to Guess



According to prosecutors, Kernell was able to hack into Sarah Palin's email account by entering her birth date, zip code, and by answering a Yahoo! security question that Wasilla was where she met her husband, Todd.



Full Story: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2939850/sarah_palin_hacking_trial_proves_email.html
 
Bummer.
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That'll teach her for having crappy security though.
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50 years because someone wants to have some fun and a public figure has crappy questions?

Can't they find something better to do...
 
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