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Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives
After news of the conviction of a substitute teacher for endangering minors — because porn popups, possibly initiated by adware, had appeared on her computer during class — comes the even sadder story of 16-year-old Matt Bandy. His family's life was turned upside-down when he was charged in Arizona with possession of child pornography, even though the family computer was riddled with spyware and Trojans. After the intervention of ABC's 20/20, Matt finally was allowed to plead to a lesser charge (namely, sharing a Playboy magazine with friends) and just barely escaped being labeled a sex offender for the rest of his life.
If you don't keep your security stuff up to date, especially on a Windows machine, you have no idea what it's being used for.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Oh here's my personal favorite quote from TFA:
Admittedly the prosecution's behavior in this case is excessive, especially the part about pleading to an obscenity charge for a Playboy magazine, but it doesn't have to be another excuse to spread FUD about the evil "here there be dragons" internets.
Making you think you're crazy is a billion dollar industry.
has become nothing more than part of the Prison-industrial complex. The concept of justice is no longer in the picture and just gets in the way of the profits.
What?
"when he was charged in Arizona with possession of child pornography, even though the family computer was riddled with spy-ware and Trojans."
I am currently taking a Data Forensics Course at Sheridan Institute, and the teacher of the course is a Peel Region Data Forensics officer. He told us in the last 5 years of him being there he has not once come across a machine where child porn was put on the machine by a popup, or spyware. He Said this does not happen, as it would be easily traced back to the company that advertised it. This is not a valid deference in child pornography cases
-EL
I believe that the catch is, while it's technically not illegal for a minor to read Playboy, it's not legal to GIVE a minor a playboy ("corrupting a minor" or some such nonsense.) Even though the kid was a minor himself, it's still technically illegal for him to give the Playboy to another minor. Similarly, if two 16 year olds have sex, they can both be charged with statutory rape, though typically either they are only threatened with arrest, or only the boy is arrested.
Note that I'm not DEFENDING this bullshit--just explaining it.
Yes, Absolutely! In fact, according to one study cited on Wikipedia, the age group most charged for Child Pornography offenses is young males aged 15-20. Note that the law makes absolutely no distinction between pictures depicting an 8 year old, and pictures depicting a 16 year old. Both are "Child" Porn, both get you convictions resulting in registered sex offender list for life. Which, yes indeed, means that two 16 year olds (who may very well be consenting depending on jurisdiction) can have sex with each other, and thats fine, but if they videotape it, or take pictures, they can end up with felony Child pornography convictions.
I'm not European. I come from the land of Oz (you know, with the wizard and what not). You may prefer American, but as another post pointed out, others that live on the continent America should not be associated with the stupidity of the USA. My intent was not to insult others on the continent.
That would be correct, however root exploits are a little harder to achieve on a Mac. Harder, not impossible. The Mac, BY DEFAULT has you type your password every time you want to install software. The Mac, BY DEFAULT has the root login disabled. The Mac, by default has a better infrastructure then Windows....period...and I am not a fan boy. I'll put up Linux, the Mac or any UNIX based system against the swiss cheese that is Windows XP any day. Yes, even Mac OS X and Linux are vulnerable, but the time to patch at least on Linux is very fast compared to Windows XP and the architecture is different and more secure....BY DEFAULT. They are all what Windows should have been.
Gorkman
We Canadians take "American" to mean a citizen of the USA; not of Canada, Mexico, Brazil or Argentina.
Just to be complete: in lots of states there's a provision in the statutory rape law that says if both parties are "old enough" (usually 16-ish), and close in age (usually 2 years), then it's not a crime. This appears to be the new and trendy way to modify the statutory rape laws.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, yadda yadda yadda, check your local laws before trolling for jailbait.
Oh, and tell me, which Latin American country do you come from that has the word "America" in it's name that would cause confusion? The name of this country is "The United States of America" and it's citizens are Americans, much as someone from the "United Mexican States" is referred to as being Mexican, not a UMSian. There is nobody who actually lives on this planet that is going to hear someone called an American, and think "Wow, he must be from Brazil". The real issue is that you're a pointless troll, and you have an inferiority complex regarding your national identity. As far as the Canadians go, if their nation's name was "The Canadian Dominion of America", maybe you'd have a point, but it isn't, so you don't.
There are a number of teenage girls on sex offender lists for taking pictures of themselves!
-b.
Close - she called the wrong hotline - child abuse hotline instead of LaLeche League.
The real outrage was that the final abuse ruling was predicated on the trauma she put her kid through while *trying to get her back* through the court system. The court ruled that, by fighting for custody (it had been years, I think), she was abusing the kid by dragging her into court, and therefor wasn't a fit mother.
Paging Judge Yossarian...
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Not in Georgia I hear.
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He 17, she 15.
What they did: _consensual_ oral sex.
What Georgia Supreme Court confirmed it was: aggravated child molestation.
What he gets: 10 years, plus probably being classed as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
Indeed, it appears to be the modern day McCarthyism! The whole concept to stopping whatever your country decides are children from experimenting with each other is ludicrous! Obviously, there's a problem with predatory adults (and sad to say usually males!), but to apply those same rules to 16 year olds is crazy!
Age of Consent by country (some examples from the page) :-
UK - 16
USA - up to 18 (differs by state!)
Spain - 13
Madagascar - 21
Spain seems low to me, but I guess I am just used to the UK's 16. 18 seems high, and who'd want to grow up in Madagascar!
Maybe the issue is just when there's a large age range between the (otherwise) consenting parties? There was a case recently in the UK of a substitute teacher who the school governers discovered had a previous sex offence with a 15 year old when he was 30-something. A big to-do in the papers (Daily Mail!) about it. He lost his job - probably never worked again as a teacher, which is all well and good you might say - serves him right! Turns out, they married a year or so later and are still married now! Perhaps he really did love her?
Rules are (usually) good, but the blanket application of rules will pretty much ALWAYS come across cases where the rules should be flexible or there will be injustices.
If these childporn hackers are looking for PCs why don't the authorities setup some honey-trap PCs without firewalls etc, and catch the people who use them - spammers, pornographers, whatever! Surely that would be the sensible thing. The pornographers are seeding (potentially!) innocent people's PCs with illegal pictures to try and grey the concept of guilt, why not fight back with honey-trap PCs so the hackers have a grey area to ponder on about whether this really is a safe PC for them to take over!
Eclectic beats from Leeds, UK
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Old news in US...
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From URL http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlif
> PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A 15-year-old girl has been arrested for taking nude photographs of her self
> and posting them on the Internet, police said.
(Found via the English Wikipedia article on Child Pornography, found via Google.)
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32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
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we can all expect the inquisition to assume guilt and punish quickly, damn the facts, damn the humans
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