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FL Court Rules Against Spouse-Installed Spyware
idobi writes "A Florida court ruled that it was illegal for a wife to install spyware on her husband's computer, in order to catch him in an extramarital affair. The three judge panel barred the woman from using the chat records from being introduced as evidence in the divorce proceedings. The court ruled that the software, Spector, violated Florida's wiretapping law - which states that it is criminal to 'intentionally intercept' any 'electronic communication.'"
The woman, tech-savvy enough to install spyware and obtain the results, should have no problem finding a new husband on Slashdot, where doubtlessly her activities have gained her a certain cred and mystique and a following.
in today's news Beverly Ann O'Brien sought a mass restraining order against a poster on slashdot.org who has been stalking her and sending poems, such as 'r05e r r3d, v1o13t r b1u3, a11 my ba53 r b310ng t0 y0u'
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
You would think, in a marriage, the wife owns half of everything, so maybe she was just spying on her half of the pc.
"I'll be down in a second, honey! Just running Adaware!"
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
How long before every kid in Florida gets an injunction on their parents from installing any monitoring software?
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
...a wife couldn't give her husband a blowjob?
Is it now illegal for a husband to insert his hardware into the wife's plug'n'play ports?
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On her next pre-nup, it is obviously essential that it include a clause that allows either of them to install spyware and security cameras clandestinely!
And what if he has his internet connection through a infrared connection to another computer? Or a WiFi network? So many non-electrical means of connecting to the internet!
so ... wait.
what does the spyware do in Soviet Russia? does it still spy on YOU?
who isn't afraid to post anonymously and knows how to use his CAPS LOCK key...
should have no problem finding a new husband on Slashdot
I felt a great disturbance in the Force when I read this, as if millions of socially inept voices suddenly cried out at the opportunity to get laid.
Electronic. Electronic. Electronic.
Electrical communication is when you use a cattle prod to let your spouse know you're upset about the affair.
I think if he cheats on her. She talk to him. If it is over is over. I don't think trying to catch him and then sue him for more than 1/2 of his state is the reason they got married on the first place. I don't get that now marriage is the union between a pig and a bitch. It is supposed based on love not money.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
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You know, all she needs to do is have a EULA pop up when the application starts saying that he agrees to the extra logs. No one reads the EULA's anyway
Why are there only 19 people folding@home for slashdot?
That wasn't a conversation they were having over Yahoo! They were merely "trash talking" over a game of Domninoes.
Come on, where's the common sense? Who's never played a head to head competitive game without yelling out "You can't touch this, Biatch!!", "Who's your daddy? WHO'S your daddy!!!" Illicit affair... bah!
Live forever, or die trying.
that's rough...what is your wife's name and telephone number by the way?
Let's drop the tired TCO argument and put that on the brochure.
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I am pretty sure that once you are married what's his is hers and what's hers is his.
No no no... You've obviously never been married. What's his is her's, and what's her's is her's.
Don't ping my cheese with your bandwidth!
If he can prove she cheated, she's at fault. Ergo, she'll probably get what she came into the marriage with (emphasis on probably; if a man cheats on his wife he'll be unlikely to keep more than the worse of the two cars), and much much less than half of what the couple made during the marriage, because he's been wronged.