Monthly Archives: November 2010

I recently reported that the federal court in Tennessee refused to overturn the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act conviction of David Kernel, the 22 year-old college student who had hacked into the Yahoo! email account of then Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Kernel had been convicted after a jury trial last April. Today the Judge sentenced Kernel to a year and a day and recommended to the Bureau of Prisons that he serve his time in a halfway house. Given that then Governor Palin had released to the world all of the information that Kernel used to identify the password … [ Continue reading → ]