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Teacher Found Guilty of Endangering Kids Due to Spyware
nursegirl writes "Norwich, Conn seventh grade teacher, Julie Amero has been convicted of four counts of risk of injury to a minor after her classroom PC displayed pornographic pop-ups in class. While an expert for the defendant said he had discovered spyware on her PC that had been downloaded from a hairstyling site, the local police investigator claimed that the spyware had been downloaded from actively visiting porn sites. Amero testified that she had told four other teachers and the assistant principal about the popups, but received no assistance. The school's internet filtration software was not working because it's license had expired. Amero faces up to forty years in prison."
They wouldn't bother with this one unless they really did have a case against the teacher. There have been cases before of teachers browsing to whitehouse.com during a grade-school civics case. Those end up with alot of embarassed faces and future policy changes, not teacher prosecution.
The prosecutor is fighting an uphill battle, given peoples' collective frustration with spyware, do he probably wouldn't be chasing this if it didn't have some real merit we aren't hearing about.
You do realize that with Paxil and cognitive therapy you can manage your obsessive compulsive disorder, right? So someone mis-spelled a word. Big deal.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
MS knows that Windows is volnerable to this crap, they even sell a suit of tools to prevent/reverse it...the Redmond gang, maybe even Bill himself should get in contact with the prosecutor and the judge...even if she gets no prison, this poor teacher is not ever going to be able to hold a good job again; convicted felons work at drive-throughs; and the top notch ones become shift lead...her life is ruined and for what? shitty MS security design and an inept IT dept.