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The son of Tennessee Representative Mike Kernell, David Kernell was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Knoxville for intentionally accessing Palin's Yahoo email account without authorisation. According to the three-page indictment, David Kernell gained access to gov.palin@yahoo.comon September 16 by exploiting weaknesses in Yahoo's password reset feature.

All he had to know was her postcode and high school, and bingo, he changed her password.

They can catch him - but what about all those spam senders?  Wouldn't it be better if the concentrated on catching them?

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Here's one good example:

Say aloud the ink colour of each word. How quickly can you do it? Did you slow down?

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Find out at The Body Battery Calculator

But please don't take it too seriously... it's not the answer to oil prices.

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Click on the arrow in the picture to start it - make sure your speakers are on.

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An investigation by the ICO showed that the companies were "opening accounts in the wrong names and passing inaccurate information to credit reference agencies and debt collection agencies".

Even though the errors caused "real damage and distress to customers", at the moment this is just a shot across the bows, giving them a chance to sort matters out.  However, if they don't get things right, they'll have committed a criminal offence, so it seems likely that cheerful Charlie Dunstone will be keen to resolve it rather than risk one of his glamorous sailing trips being disrupted by PC Plod.

You can read the Enforcement Notice by clicking here, if you want to gloat.

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Darling breaks the newsThe disgraceful mislaying of the discs containing 25m people's personal records by the taxman was announced on 20th November. It was a list of people who have received Child Benefit.

That's bad enough, but at least it was a mess-up, not a deliberate attempt to take advantage of a situation (I hope).

Unlike the full page adverts from LoydsTSB TSB that appeared today - seeming to be sympathetic, but actually trying to flog some credit-rating monitoring product of theirs called PrivacyGuard.

This is just taking advantage of people's fears, and should be exposed as such  Let me be clear:

• If you are the innocent victim of banking fraud you will not have to pay, with or without any insurance. 
• This LloydsTSB product offers no protection or insurance anyway - it simply monitors your credit history from only one of the Credit Reference Agencies

If that's what you want, then buy it, although you can get the same service cheaper elsewhere.  But you are still on your own if there's trouble, despite the impression the LloydsTSB advert gave me

If you think you have been the victim of identity theft, you can read some good some specific advice by clicking here.

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A couple of points spring from this rather arduous experience. Firstly, I disagreed strongly with some of the other distinguished judges over the praise that they heaped on the sites of Boris Johnson and George Galloway, both of which seemed to him to be just extensions of their media careers (even down to selling books and tickets to events), and precious little to do with their constituencies.

Secondly, my main complaint was how dull most of the sites are – just not enough jokes. Two exceptions might be Derek Wyatt and Nadine Dorries, both of them have a light and slightly eccentric touch and are usually worth reading. I’m all in favour of MP’s who take a fairly individual, even iconoclastic line.

You can see a list of the winners and links to their sites by clicking here.

You will, incidentally, look in vain for a constituency site for our Prime Minister. He’s one of about 20% of our MP’s who just doesn’t bother. I call that arrogant.

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