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The Tennessean brings forth an eyebrow-raising report about Rep. Mike Kernell's son David facing an investigation on the possibility that he was the one who hacked into Sarah Palin's Yahoo account:

State Rep. Mike Kernell confirmed Thursday that his son, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, is at the center of heated Internet discussion into the hacking of the personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, confirmed that it is his 20-year-old son, David, who is being widely named on Internet blogs and chatrooms in connection with an unfolding story about Palin's hacked e-mail accounts.

The FBI and the Secret Service started a formal investigation on Wednesday into the hacking.

David Kernell is a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Mike Kernell said he spoke to his son on Thursday, as he does on a regular basis.

Kernell otherwise declined to comment, or discuss his son’s whereabouts.

As mentioned above, this has already been spoken about on several other blogs, including The Jawa Report. If this is so, it's certainly disturbing. Computerworld, which credits Michelle Malkin with a lot of the coverage on the case, has more:

The webmaster of a proxy service called Ctunnel.com, which may have been used by a hacker to illegally access the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is working with law enforcement authorities to track down the person behind the break-in.

Gabriel Ramuglia, the Athens, Ga.-based webmaster of Ctunnel, said today that URLs in screenshots of Palin's e-mail -- photos were posted online yesterday on 4chan.org and other sites -- suggested that whoever accessed her Yahoo Mail account had used his proxy service.

Ramuglia said in an interview that he was contacted by FBI officials last night and asked to retain computer logs of the past few days' activity on his service and to make sure nothing is deleted. Ramuglia, who normally stores only a week's worth of log data, said he would not have deleted anything anyway because of the illegal nature of what had happened.

Ramuglia is now in the process of importing more than 80GB worth of log data into a database for analysis. He said he's reasonably confident that he can help authorities sift through the logs and trace access back to the originating IP address -- especially because the self-professed hacker has admitted using just one proxy service to access Palin's account.

The alleged hacker said in an online posting that he gained access by simply resetting the password to the Alaska governor's Yahoo e-mail account using its password-recovery service. That's according to a description of events posted on a blog site run by conservative syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin.

While we're on the subject, it's to be reminded that the Associated [with hackers] Press has not been cooperating with the authorities in the investigation, and has even been blaming Palin for what happened. The AP reporter who spoke so snidely should be ashamed of himself.

Hot Air has some more info on just how the addresses got published.

I certainly hope the perpetrator is caught and made into an example of what happens to criminals who invade privacy. The scum who did that cannot be allowed to get away with it.

Update: The American Thinker reminds us not to forget Gawker.

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