4chan Dem. hacks Rep. VP Palin's email, finds jack.

[Kairyu]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/palin-e-mail-ha.html

For those of you too lazy to follow the link, just read the topic title. It pretty much sums it up.

I'd make some kind of humorous comment, but honestly this is funny enough on it's own.

[Aegix Drakan]

...Leave it to 4chan. *rolls eyes*

And dude...he only used ONE Proxy? I know nothing about hacking (aside from about 5 minutes of playing Uplink [A hacking sim game] ), and I already know that using just ONE computer as a shield is really leaving yourself open to getting found out, and then OWNED by the long arm of the law.

[ZTC]

Leave it to newfags to fuck shit up. Looks like he'll get a visit from the Party Van pretty soon :D

[Icey]

Gabriel Ramuglia who operates Ctunnel, the internet anonymizing service the hacker used to post the information from Palin's account to the 4chan forum, told Threat Level this morning that the FBI had contacted him yesterday to obtain his traffic logs. Ramuglia said he had about 80 gigabytes of logs to process and hadn't yet looked for the information the FBI was seeking but planned to be in touch with the agents today.

Ramuglia said the screenshots of Palin's e-mail account, which the hacker posted online, will help him narrow his search, since they revealed most of the Ctunnel URL that was at the top of the hacker's browser when he took the screen shot.


Haha, outstanding. That guy is a moron.

[AlexMax]

haha they found him (http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/09/21/160222.shtml)

[Icey]

But it gets even better. White hat hackers didn’t even need proxy information to find the culprit because they discovered that the Rubico forum handle was linked to [email protected]. A few searches on Google and YouTube further links this email address to 20-year-old David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His father is Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell.

Wow, this guy is just the worst. Hillarious though.

[Aegix Drakan]

Oh gosh...he epic fails as a hacker. :rofl:

Seriously, how stupid can you GET? One proxy? Screenshots with the proxy's tag in it? AND LINKING HIS EMAIL TO HIS 4CHAN HANDLE?!?!

...Did he WANT to get caught, or what? :rolleyes: