Palin gets schooled on security- from a 20 year old

Last month someone hacked into Governor Palin's personal e-mail acount and posted various items from her email online- including family pics, birthdates, a cell phone number and official state email exchanges, as well as her address book. Today, David Kernell, the 20 year old son of Memphis state legislator Mike Kernell (D), was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly hacking into Palin's personal email. The charges are ridiculously high for a young adult who was showing just how naivee Senator John McCain's running mate really is- a maximum 5 year prison term, $250,000 fine and a three year term of supervised release upon conviction.

Governor Palin used two, yes TWO, Yahoo email accounts for which she conducted state business. David Kernell hacked into her gov.palin@yahoo.com email account. Her other account, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, was being investigated by federal authorities for her role in the firing of the Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, commonly referred to now as 'Troopergate'. After learning of Kernell's hack of the email account both email accounts were deleted, an action that could be viewed as destruction of evidence. Palin also could face charges for conducting official state business using her personal, unarchived e-mail account, according to an article in Time.

David Kernell committed a crime and in doing so brought a credible issue to light- how can we trust a VP who as governor conducted business using her personal email account, an account which was hacked into by a mere 20 year old (no offense to you David)? If someone so young and talented could hack into her account for fun, imagine what someone with much more experience and an ulterior motive could do to harm not only Palin but perhaps the United States of America. Governor Palin's email account was a breach of national security. Governor Palin, you are lucky that it was David Kernell who hacked into your email account and exposed it this early in the game because god forbid if you ever became Vice President and used a personal YAHOO email account and a sinister hacker obtained vital national security information the ramifications would be tragic for this country.