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Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer
2muchcoffeeman writes "The Associated Press tells the story of Michael Fiola, a former Massachusetts government employee who was arrested in 2007 after child porn was found on his state-issued laptop computer. He was eventually cleared of all charges after some digging by the defense found that the laptop was infected with malware that was 'programmed to visit as many as 40 child porn sites per minute — an inhuman feat. While Fiola and his wife were out to dinner one night, someone logged on to the computer and porn flowed in for an hour and a half. Prosecutors performed another test and confirmed the defense findings. The charge was dropped — 11 months after it was filed.' The article also discusses the technical aspects of how it could happen and about similar cases in the United Kingdom in 2003."
Downloads all the latest movie and software releases, and stores them on my computer! It's madness, I say, madness.
Guess that lets my cat of the hook...
ok, i meant to make this longer and darker, but i'm just not really feeling that paranoid tonight =)
Noted. Thank you citizen. This matter will be investigated and remedial action taken fnord if it is deemed to be warranted.
In other news, slashdotters lined up in droves asking "where can I get the adult | lesbian | furries version of this script?"
how is this anything new? A completely unprotected system can be infected and then do whatever any other computer can.
Next thing you'll know the news will be warning people about strings of armed robberies in their neighborhood, when anyone should know that someone with a gun can rob people. I mean what's the point? Oh, and forget about weather reports, why bother when it's perfectly logical and foreseeable that the temperature reached the level it did today, considering the long-term climatological trends, the time of year, the latitude, and the altitutde?
I'd like to think that you spent all of your fifteen mod points over the course of the last thirty minutes, and then accidentally undid them all with this ridiculous post.
MACs encode the brand of wifi card (and usually of your laptop if it came with) so it can be reasonably easy to visually scan the room for the offender if there aren't 9001 MacBook Pros in it.
Like this? http://www.abluestar.com/utilities/rndimages/img/acer.jpg
>>>laws passed by retards
You will shortly be arrested for hate speech. Please do not move from your current position. The police will let themselves in.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
And, being a law-abiding citizen, you requested a 17 year old friend have sex with her once?
CP is governed by supply and demand like everything else. If there were no buyers, then there would be no sellers. Sure, those who sexually exploit children would still do that, but the majority of people involved in CP aren't sexually interested in children - it's just a source of money for them.
# ifconfig eth0 hw ether de:ad:13:37:ba:be
"Frequently wrong, never in doubt."
If her face wasn't ... covered ... you would have a slightly better chance of being able to tell her age ;)