Thomas Lifson, at American Thinker, has a link.
TGDaily, a tech site, explains how the suspected Palin email hacker, 20-year-old David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell, was caught.
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It is obvious from posts the hacker made that he was fully conscious of breaking the law.
There may be a loophole.
Though federal law prohibits the unauthorized access of someone's e-mail account, the DOJ's interpretation of one particular case might only hold the Palin hackers accountable for accessing unopened messages, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
It seems a court has decided that "electronic storage" also refers to e-mails that have been read, the DOJ doesn't like that decision. I'd love to know why.
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