An American college student is looking at the prospect of spending the next 20 years behind bars just because he guessed the obvious password for former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Palin was using her Yahoo email, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, for important US government business, instead of the secure emails given to her by the government. As her password for this email account, rather than using some carefully chosen algorithmic password, Palin was using the name of the place where she met her husband. Very secure indeed.
As this sort of information is public knowledge, college student David Kernell took a stab and tried her Yahoo email account, successfully being able to access it. He then changed her password and posted screenshots of some of her emails on a message board for his friends to see.
For this prank Kernell is now facing 20 years in prison, as ‘hacking’ into a government email account is (more…)
Yahoo.com has a similar deal in the USA with the rights to show highlights of basketball and ice hockey matches. The current owners of the rights, Virgin, will see their deal come to an end as the season draws to a close next weekend.
Tonight Tottenham travel to Aston Villa, who must surely have witness Spurs’ awesome display last Sunday when they thrashed lacklustre Wigan 9-1 at White Heart Lane. England striker Jermain Defoe scored five goals against Wigan in that game, including a seven minute hat-trick, which should have Aston Villa trembling with fear for tonight’s game.
