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E-Darwin award winner?

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To qualify for a Darwin Award, you need to do something achieving suicidal levels of stupidity, thus rendering an abrubt end to your gene pool…..

It would appear that David Kernell has just achieved that with his “hack” of Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo mail account.

The following article is well worth a read, as it shows that when carrying out a stupid stunt, that level of stupidity is made infinitely less (or more) impressive by broadcasting your act of stupidity and creating a paper trail back to you leaving incriminating evidence of your stupid act…

http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-39405-108.html

To throw into the mix the potential death of the career of said offenders father makes this possibly the MOST ridiculous act of self-sabotage I have heard of this year…

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/fbi-raid-apartm.html

Written by Paul Morgan-Roach

September 22, 2008 at 9:28 am

Posted in Security

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  1. You are presuming the accounting given is accurate.

    Fr33d0m

    September 22, 2008 at 11:52 pm


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