(born 1988) is the son of Mike Kernell a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. Kernell is an economics student at the University of Tennessee. Kernell has been indicted by the Justice Department for breaking into VP hopeful Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account, according to an announcement at Justice.gov. According to a blog, Kernell used the password reset feature at Yahoo, and changed the password to 'popcorn' and then posted screenshots of the e-mail messages online. Kernell posted the screenshots of her inbox on 4chan under the name "rubico". The offending posts, screenshots, heretofore unseen family photos, and emails have all been deleted from Imageshack and 4Chan. The Posts can be viewed on Terryfrank and Gawker.The emails raise new concerns about whether Palin and her top aides used private email accounts in an attempt to conduct state business away from view of the public – or investigators. Read emails here and here. If convicted, he may get up to 5 years in jail, as well as a $250,000 fine.
