Jan 12 2007 14:58 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Excellent example of "PC controls user" (if true) ..
"On the morning of Oct. 19, 2004, Julie Amero's life changed forever
when pornographic ads flooded her web browser during a class .. She was
arrested shortly thereafter and charged with multiple felonies"
"Detective Mark Lounsbury .. admitted under cross-examination that the
prosecution never even checked the computer for malware"
"Herb Horner .. exhaustive independent forensic analysis of Amero's
hard drive showed that the machine had been infected with multiple
pieces of malicious software before she arrived at the school"
"the judge only let him present two slides. Prosecutor Smith objected
because his team hadn't been previously informed about the malware
defense .. the prosecution moved to suppress evidence that it wasn't
prepared to handle"
'Allison Whitney, ComputerCOP's director of communications .. said that
Amero must have navigated to pornographic sites in order to have
infected her computer with obscene popups. "You've got to get that ball
rolling,'
"Amero was working on a very old Gateway PC running Windows 98, an
extremely vulnerable setup"
"Anyone could send anything they wanted to any computer on the site,"
Horner said.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/46925/
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