__/ [ Peter Kai Jensen ] on Friday 23 February 2007 10:00 \__
> spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Um... roy... In what country is a 19 year old considered a minor?
>
> He has been at this for many years. OK, it's great that he helped catch
> quite a few creeps, but his methods are highly questionable in my
> opinion. It's a highly sensitive topic, since it's pretty much
> impossible to be against catching these guys, but does this justify the
> means? In fact, doing it this way might actually allow a guilty person
> to go free, since it could be argued that as he already had full control
> of the machine, the cracker might as well have put the evidence there to
> frame him. ISTR one case a while back, where it was successfully argued
> that some sort of illegal material was placed on the suspects computer
> through a trojan program.
Similar scenario (yesterday's news):
Critical IE Graphics Flaw Resurfaces
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| It's bad enough when crooks exploit bugs to ruin a home computer,
| but the consequences of a successful attack can be much worse.
| A substitute teacher in Norwich, Connecticut, found that out when
| a computer she was using in her classroom suddenly started showing
| pornographic pop-up ads to everyone in the class. She now faces up
| to 40 years in prison after being convicted of willfully showing
| her students the images. A security expert hired by her defense,
| however, says he found malicious software on the PC.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/128385;_ylt=AnYSp3TwbF_W2YFkgjhv9oEDW7oF
Prior to this controversial story there was some creep (under question) who
blamed a hijacker for stuff that was found on his hard-drive. When 1 in 4
Windows PCs is under total control of a hacker (vint Cerf coughed out some
figures), nothing can be assumed. It's like one big 'PC orgy' where to
contents of one's computer are meaningless. In fact, a guilty person can
plant some malware in his/her PC immediately after getting caught... you
know, to feed the defence. In china, 75% (or was it 90%) of the computers
are/were said to have malware.
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~~ Best wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | $> apt-get -not windows
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