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Man Mines Facebook For Security Questions, Nabs Nude Photos From Email

Posted by timothy on from the oh-it's-that-easy-eh dept.

itwbennett writes "George Bronk, 23, has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into the e-mail accounts of thousands of women, scouring them for nude photos that he then posted to the Internet. How he did it: He searched his victims' Facebook pages for answers to common security questions and then logged in to their e-mail accounts. In one case he persuaded a victim to send him even more explicit photographs by threatening to post the ones he'd stolen if she didn't. Bronk faces 6 years in prison on felony hacking, child pornography and identity theft charges."

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  1. Re:Article in summary redirects by CrashandDie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed. It would appear ITWorld is vulnerable to a simple XSS comment post.

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    Mountaineer76 provides us with a print version of the article which isn't affected, though.

    PS: WTF is it with Slashdot's broken support for paste? Trying to recreate the goodness of iOS 1?

  2. Think of the children laws. by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In some states, the age of consent and child porn statutes have the same age limits.

    For instance, a quick read of NV law shows the AOC to be 16. Child porn is defined as sexually explicit blah blah blah involving a person under 16. Federal law makes it a crime with a person under 18, but there may be some state line/interstate commerce nexus that needs to be fulfilled.

    I didn't feel like looking at too many states, but found this same AOC/CP thing with NH-16/16.

    Many states forbid distributing/exhibiting obscenity to people under 18, regardless of their AOC/CP statutes.

    So, excluding the feds, it's not a crime to have sex with a 16 year old or film it. But, she can't watch the tape afterwards. It's a crime to allow her 16 year old friend to watch the act as it occurs, but not a crime to have her join. Neither of them can smoke a cigarette or have a beer afterwards. If either one were to rob,beat,kill one of their fellow particpants, they would be tried as an adult in every state in the country.