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Microsoft Messenger Virus Hits Reuters IM
steman writes "Reuters had to temporarily shut down its private instant messaging service after being targetted by the W32/Kelvir-Re trojan. Reuters Messaging is implemented with Microsoft messenger technology and has more than 60,000 users. When activated, the Kelvir trojan sends itself to all users contacts via email and IM. Francis deSouza, chief executive of computer security provider IMLogic, said 'It just generated a flood of instant messages, so it suddenly slowed down the network for legitimate traffic. This is certainly a wake-up call, IM is just like any other communication media. The media needs to go hand-in-hand with security.'"
This has very little to do with the article, but a few days ago the L.A. Times published an article regarding the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit that focused on their fight against child pornography ("Sifting Clues to an Unsmiling Girl"). They are the law enforcement organization that photoshopped the victims out of child porn photos in order to get the public's assistance in identifying the backgrounds (it worked). In any case, the article had this amazing claim:
Wow. All but one in four years. Seemed rather unlikely to me.
So, I called the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit and spoke to Det. Ian Lamond, who was familiar with the Times article.
He claims they were misquoted, or if that figure was given it was done so jokingly. Of course, even if the figure was given jokingly, shouldn't the Times' reporter have clarified something that seems rather odd? Shouldn't her editors have questioned her sources?
Nevertheless , Detective Lamond does claim that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest."
They've arrested well over one hundred people over the past four years and Det. Lamond claims they can gauge this interest in Star Trek by the arrestees' "paraphenalia, books, videotapes and DVDs." I asked if this wasn't simply a general interest in science fiction and fantasy, such as Star Wars or Harry Potter or similar. Paraphrasing his answer, he said, while there was sometimes other science fiction and fantasy paraphenalia, Star Trek was the most consistent and when he referred to a majority of the arrestees being Star Trek fans, it was Star Trek-specific.
I took the job at the farm because of the free room and board and good pay. I was free for the summer and only needed another few thousand dollars for fall tuition and this seemed like the place to do it. 'The farm was about 30 miles out of town, pretty isolated but that meant I didn't have any place to spend my money and that worked for me as well. Michael was the owner, a man about 40 years old. Tall, well built, grey hair...lived alone... he gave me a bedroom at the top of the stairs, with its own bathroom...pretty neat setup.. He also was a great cook and the first night and the first breakfast passed all my food quality expectations by a wide margin. The first morning, we spent going around the farm and I learned what my basic chores were. Michael [he told me not to call him Mike] had three German shepherd males that he said were used in stud service and paid him quite well. He also had two small stud horses, just a step up from pony size that were stud fee babies as well. I was told that their care was one of my top priorities.. He had a few riding horses and some beef cows and sheep out in a pasture that had a small lake on it.. He said that most of the summer they were no problem, but in the winter, he barned them when the weather got bad. Right now it was hot...baking... every day and I wore just shorts and a tank top, just as Michael did. In the evenings we would watch satellite TV and the second night, he turned to an x rated station and we watched a mixed fuck film with 2 teenage girls and two young guys. One part of the film was all boys doing boys.. I had sucked a few cocks in high school and in college had one assfucking, and loved it at the time... I got hot quick and hard faster. I had a raging hard on and could see that Michael had one too. I felt the juices boiling and ran up stairs, mumbling that I had to go to bed early and jacked off in my bathroom. Shooting cum all over the sink.. What a load. I couldn't believe that he played that on the TV.. It was going to be rough watching that stuff and not pulling out my cock and doing it right there. The next morning, Michael took me out to another small out building and told me it was the breeding shed. In the middle of the room was a strange platform that was like a narrow heavy table covered with a plastic mat and it had a small ramp that went up to the one end of it. Michael explained that this was used for sheep breeding when the ewe was not cooperative,. they would set her over the table, clamp her down and the ram would come in from behind and mount her, giving her a fuck and a load of sperm whether she wanted it or not. "Lie down on the table and let me show you how it works," he said, looking me hard in the eyes. I thought it odd but did as I was told.. He moved me around until my ass was at the end of the table. He came around to the front and told me to put my arms down toward the floor. When I complied he quickly snapped my wrists in some sort of clamps so that I could not move . He then stepped to the side of the table and brought a strap around my middle and cinched me tightly at the waist. "What the hell are you doing to me, " I screamed. "Shut up and do what you are told to do here or you will pay for it with pain., " he replied heatedly.. Now he was at the back of the table and lifting my hips up and pulling my shorts and briefs off. With a slap on my bare ass, he leaned down and clamped my legs in devices similar to the wrist clamps. The whole process had taken less than a minute. I was totally clamped to the table. "Well, well, well, " he said with a chuckle. "Now your real work here is about to begin. Again a pat on my bare ass and then his hand ran down between my legs and fondled my cock and balls. Shivers ran through my body and in spite of my anger and fear, I could feel my cock growing. "Hah, you love it don't you, my little farm slut. I'm going to each you how to be a good farm bitch today. But first you need a good barn enema to get you all cleaned out."" He walked away and came back with a large hose, wat
Isn't it interesting how vulnerabilities in Firefox have spiked in the past 6 months since it's wide adoption? Could it be possible that widely used software is more likely to be targeted than those products with a small user base?