CCF Note: I'm posting this non-global warming story because I wanted to show the type of vitriol that is so prevalent on the far left. The hacker, an ardent Obama supporter, did this hoping to 'derail' the McCain-Palin campaign. So the next time some lefty-enviro-whacko wants to go toe-to-toe on an issue, perhaps this will shed some light on what you're really up against: an adolescent mind where the ends justify the means.

Democratic Rep. Mike Kernell of Tennessee unveiled the hacker who broke into Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's e-mail—his 20-year-old son, David Kernell.

Internet chat rooms posted e-mails from David Kernell—who had not been publicly identified as the hacker at that point—in which he said that the intrusion started off as a "prank" but then he tried to get some dirt on Palin.

"I really wanted to get something incriminating which I was sure there would be," the e-mails said. "I read though the e-mails ALL OF THEM before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor and pictures of her family."

On the Internet 4chan forum David Kernell, using the pseudonym Rubico, detailed how easy it was to gain access to Palin's e-mail.

"After the password recovery was re-enabled, it took seriously 45 mins on wikipedia and google to find the info, Birthday? 15 seconds on wikipedia, zip code? well she had always been from wasilla, and it only has 2 zip codes (thanks online postal service!)," Rubico wrote.

"The second was somewhat harder, the question was "where did you meet your spouse?" did some research, and apparently she had eloped with mister palin after college, if youll look on some of the screensh*ts that I took and other fellow anon have so graciously put on photobucket you will see thegoogle (NSDQ: GOOG) search for "palin eloped" or some such in one of the tabs.

"I found out later though more research that they met at high school, so I did variations of that, high, high school, eventually hit on "Wasilla high" I promptly changed the password to popcorn and took a cold shower."

The cold shower must've woken Kernell up. He said he later realized the seriousness of what he did.

"It finally set in, THIS internet was serious business, yes I was behind a proxy, only one, if this sh*t ever got to the FBI I was f—ed, I panicked, i still wanted the stuff out there but I didn't know how to rapid [share] all that stuff, so I posted the pass on /b/, and then promptly deleted everything, and unplugged my internet and just sat there in a comatose state."

Gabriel Ramuglia, the Web master and operator of Ctunnel.com, the browsing proxy service used by Kernell, confirmed that he was contacted by the FBI and that he provided them with information.

Barack Obama spokesman Bill Burton called the hacking "outrageous." Republican National Committee spokesman Danny Diaz said, "The fact that a Democratic activist—and possibly an Obama supporter—could go to these lengths is deeply disturbing and criminal," according to The New York Post.

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