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The Virus Did It
scubacuda writes "The Inquirer and Get Reading report that a UK man accused of having pornographic pictures of kids on his computer was acquitted after a court heard that his machine was infected with a Trojan on his PC which probably auto-downloaded the images. (In light of moves like Operation Ore, we'll probably hear more defenses like this.)"
Human: I plead insanity! I wasn't aware of my actions at the time that I was doing them. I can't be held responsible.
Computer: I plead trojan. I wasn't aware of my actions at the time that I was doing them. I can't be held responsible.
Perhaps Mr. Schofield should be charged with the misdemeanor offense "Running Windows".
Some community service should put things aright, methinks.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
They've been downloading MP3s, porn, movies, all kinds of stuff I am not aware of!
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
I gotta keep this short 'cause I have to go uninstall Symantec Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition to make sure that my company lawyers have a good defense for some of our employees.... Hell, I might just turn off our firewall and load MS Backoffice for an OS as long as we're looking to give more people/programs easy access.
Or you can turn it the other way round. Suddenly, I have the urge to ununstall all my virus protection and run that trojan I found, which automatically downloads mp3s of my favorite artists ;)
Yes officer, the lock on my front door has been broken for a few weeks now. That body is in the basement because some bastard probably dropped it off there while I was at work
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
I didn't notice the folder named "Child Porn" and all the neatly arranged subfolders inside of "My Documents".