Comments on: FBI searches apartment of alleged Palin hacker

Bureau reportedly searches apartment of David Kernell, a 20-year-old University of Tennessee student, as part of its investigation into hacking of Alaska governor's Yahoo e-mail account.

[DaveB1980]

I'm with a lot of you in the line of thought that if she has nothing to hide, why should she care? Unless there's some sort of sensitive information hidden away that proves she made a deal with a bad man or proof that she conspired to can that government employee -- you know, the one she is against them investigating -- then big whoop. Free email accounts get hacked. That's just the way the Internet is.

But the question I want to know is why is the FBI involved? They are the "Federal" Bureau... She's the governor of a state with more animals than people. What makes her so special? :)

[Dreifort]

internet is nationwide (crosses state lines). that is why FBI is involved.

I do a lot of work in private homes helping public citizens with their personal computers. I had once instance a woman's ex-husband was trying to hack into her computer (he wanted to know who she was seeing now). I found a key logger on her computer and contacted the FBI (along with some other evidence her ex-husband was trying to access her bank accts). They traced the key logger back to her ex-husband in about 4 days.

[open-mind]

Why should she care? For the same reasons that I could get 20 years in prison if I took your US mail out of your mailbox.

[patch991]

So if my Yahoo account was hacked, would the FBI investigate who did it? And who thinks Palin favors Tina Fey? ... besides the fact that they both make you laugh.

[Benjammn]

Horray for easily-fooled password protection systems. Okay kids, this is your lesson: Don't ever use real "personal identifiers" for password recovery. Because if it's real, someone can find it out, like this guy. Keep paper copies of passwords and use fake personal identifiers (and keep them on paper too) if you ever think you will forget your password.
And these ******** claims that the "left wing conspirators did it" need to stop. Until a proper investigation is finished, don't assume things because he is the son of a Dem state rep. Sons of Democrat reps have minds of their own. And whoop-de-doo that her account came clean. Not everyone has dirty secrets.

[badmojo42]

How is it that they can find this guy in days, and yet still havent found Bin Laden in seven years??? F'n govt priorities are so messed up!

[open-mind]

Pretty simple answer ... this kid wasn't hacking from a cave in the Mid-east.

[suthnautr]

Use of simple passwords is so common. Dogs names, birth dates... all stuff anyone can crack through simple trial and error deduction or a dictionary password cracker.

[bsharkey]

get ready for the cattle prod, lefty scum

I'm just amazed that the FBI was able to track down this kid so quickly, when they've been unable to find hundreds of emails missing from White House computers when they were plotting to out a CIA agent.

I had always heard that you would have to completely erase your hard drive 3-4 times and maybe set it on fire to keep the FBI from recovering deleted files. I didn't think Rove, Cheney, & Bush had done that yet. I guess it just depends on who is signing your paycheck. After all, we know how unbiased things are at the DOJ.