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NYT Reports Porn Spam Hijacking Network

Posted by michael on from the fit-to-print dept.

twitter writes "This NYT story describes how thousands of PCs have been used as porn spambots and reverse proxy servers, and mentions that they could be used for kiddie porn. Finally, though Microsoft is not mentioned, people might start to understand what a monoculture of poor quality software enables."

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  1. Re:Convenient Excuse by Keyser_Lives · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I know the parent is a joke, but this type of excuse was recently used in a court case by a guy who claimed that all of the kiddie porn on his machine was put there by some "insidious hacker type" who had broken into his machine and planted it there.
    I'm not sure if the verdict on that case has been released yet, I know the trial was mentioned somewhere here on /.

    Anybody with a better memory than mine know how this turned out?