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Go figure. You’d think publishers would be all over reducing overhead and being content providers. You’d think reducing how much they are chained to print houses and paper producers would make publishers thrilled. Fact: apparently, I don’t know the first thing about publishing. But I do know that publishers are holding out on the Kindle. more »

A judge in Anchorage has ordered Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to save her Yahoo! e-mail account and e-mails used for official state business.

Another account, set up to handle e-mails between the governor and 15 of her closest advisors, including her husband, was also ordered frozen. The Alaska attorney general has been asked to retrieve e-mails from the accounts so that the judge can determine why Palin invoked executive privilege by withholding over 1,000 e-mails in response to an open records request.

The Yahoo account was revealed last month after the son of a Democratic state rep from Tennessee hacked into it and posted some of the contents on an infamous hacker site. More on this story after the break.

A federal grand jury has indicted the man accused of hacking into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s e-mail account. 20 year old David Kernell turned himself into authorities earlier this week. The University of Tennessee student is the son of Tennessee state Rep. Mike Kernell, who happens to be a Democrat.

Authorities say Kernell hacked Palin’s account last month by exploiting Yahoo’s password recovery system after the Alaska governor’s e-mail address was revealed in earlier news stories. Some of the accounts contents were posted on an infamous hacker site called 4Chan and eventually made their way to the media.

Sarah Palin had at least 10 other secret email accounts aside from the one that was hacked into last month, according to an ITS technician who worked with a Palin aide to set them up. The McCain campaign admits this but, of course, put their own interesting spin on it.

“As a champion of government accountability and transparency, Governor Palin was exercising an abundance of caution to ensure that all state and personal business matters were being kept separate,” said spokesperson Meghan Stapleton. “Governor Palin is committed to serving with the highest regard toward ethics”

Keeping state and personal business separate? Then why did the hacked account contain family photos, personal correspondence and official state correspondence regarding pending legislation? That’s the complete opposite of separation.

Time Magazine is reporting that vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s e-mail account was accessed by hackers. The Wikileaks website has published several screenshots of messages and other data hackers claim they got from one of Palin’s two Yahoo accounts. Palin had already been receiving criticism about her e-mail account after it was revealed she had been using them to conduct government business in an attempt to avoid compliancy and archive requirements, which happens to be a crime.