Palin Email Intrusion Investigation Moves Forward

According to Fox News, warrants have been served in the Governor Palin / Yahoo! Email breakin. As I wrote previously, the person of interest is one David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Kernell is the son of Mike Kernell, a Democratic state representative in Tennessee. Per Fox News “A witness told the station they took photos inside Kernell’s apartment and that his three roommates were subpoenaed to testify this week in Chattanooga.”

Also of particular interest to me is that the perportrator used a service called CTunnel.com while committing this crime. For those who don’t know, such a service is a way of “hiding” where the network traffic is coming from, by proxying the connection. What I find interesting however is that I dont recall such a service actually aiding in the investigation of such a crime. The CTunnel.com owner Gabriel Ramuglia is cooperating with authorities, of his own volition it seems.

My point is that some people seem to think that if they just take a step or two to hide their electronic footprints, it’s not necesarily going to make them invisible. There is always a trail when it comes to the Internet. For better or worse, your actions online are tracked *somewhere*, even if you take steps to obfuscate your actions. CTunnel, for example, kept logs of the traffic it was proxying…and is now apparently handing them over to the Feds.

Also see: Michelle Malkin - On the Palin Hacker E-Mail Trail