Sarah Palin Hacker Moves to Halfway House

The man guilty of hacking Sarah Palin's e-mail account was discharged from federal prison house and is now spending time in a halfway house.

St. David Kernell left wing a fenceless borderline-security federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky, where inmates are put to work landscaping and construction maintenance for between 12 and 40 cents per hour for the halfway house, according to a Tennessee tv set station.

palin email hack — GOP 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin

Kernell was convicted last class of breaking into to Palin's Yahoo e-mail account during the 2008 presidential election. He outsmarted Bumpkin's password reset scheme by correctly responsive questions using information all but Palin that was well addressable along the Internet — a technique that criminals continue to use to break into those accounts. Apparently information technology took Kernell minutes to look up her birth date, ZIP cipher, and where she met her husband Sweeney Todd (Wasilla Piping Cultivate).

When they don't do any money from the crime, it's different for first-time hackers with no criminal records to get a prison condemnation, but Kernell's case wasn't on the dot typical. Palin and her eldest daughter Bristol testified during the trial, and prosecutors argued that a stiff sentence would deter boost hacking during presidential elections.

Kernell is now in the custody of the Capital of Tennessee Community Corrections Office, and is set to finish his sentence on Nov. 23, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

Henry M. Robert McMillan covers computer protection and general technology breaking news for The IDG Word Service. Follow Robert on Twitter. Robert's e-mail address is robert_mcmillan@idg.com

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