Meet David Kernell, the 20-year-old University of Tennessee student who’s probably going to jail for a very long time for “hacking” into the Yahoo email account of Sarah Palin by correctly guessing her security questions with information he gleaned from her Wikipedia page.
OMG.
I’m sorry, but can we please stop calling this kid a “hacker”? That’s the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard. This kid is not a hacker. I remember the Golden Age of hacking, where you actually had to know stuff about computers to be considered a hacker. Now apparently all you need is an Internet connection, a 4chan.com login and too much free time. Fucking childsplay. Hacking used to be for real, yo. But I digress.
Just to make things more fun, David’s father is a Democratic state senator in Tennessee.
The grand jury today ended its session without indicting David, but they’re totally going to eventually, and then this poor kid’s going to go to jail for a really, really long time for what basically amounts to a simple prank that any local middle-schooler could have pulled off, when really Sarah Palin should be going to jail for governing an entire state with a fucking Yahoo account. Sucks to be you, dude. (Love the chest hair, BT-dub.)
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