Japanese Cops Collar Malware-Carrying Cat

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Japanese Cops Collar Malware-Carrying Cat

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 9, 2013 @08:52AM from the adorable-security-threats dept.

Orome1 writes "When imagining law enforcement officers investigating and searching for cyber criminals or evidence about their activities, the last thing that you can probably envision is them searching for a stray cat. But that was exactly what detectives of Japan's National Police Agency recently did as the last step in a complex 'treasure hunt' started on New Year's Day by a person (persons?) who is allegedly the mastermind behind the so-called 'Remote Control Virus.' The malware in question was instrumental in staging a continuous campaign of death and bomb threats sent to airline companies, kindergartens, schools, law offices, broadcasting networks and shrines."

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The real crime... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-09 08:58 · Score: 5, Interesting

Having read the article it seems the real crime to be investigated here would come from:
In a particularly embarrassing episode of the investigation, the Japanese police arrested four of those unsuspecting individuals and extracted "confessions" from them, only for other institutions to receive threats containing details that only the real criminal behind the scheme would know - while the four were in custody.
1. Re:The real crime... by TheCarp · 2013-01-09 09:10 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  But its ok.... every other confession they have gotten was totally legit, as will the next ones.
  I have seen claims that standard LEO questioning techniques have been found to be able to extract confessions in up to 90% of cases, totally independentally of the persons innocence or guilt.
  Yet, confessions continue to be held up as meaning something.
  
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  "I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
2. Re:The real crime... by SJHillman · 2013-01-09 09:17 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It does seem like Low Earth Orbit questioning techniques would be effective, even on people not normally afraid of heights. Or oxygen deprivation.
Re:CATS! by Tablizer · 2013-01-09 09:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Kitty porn?

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Table-ized A.I.
Someone has to say it... by pr0t0 · 2013-01-09 09:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Does that make it a "script kitty"?

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1. Re:Someone has to say it... by Tablizer · 2013-01-09 09:17 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Does that make it a "script kitty"?
  "Is that Perl, or just a fur-ball you coughed up?"
  
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  Table-ized A.I.
2. Re:Someone has to say it... by rk · 2013-01-09 09:31 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  The furball is more readable and maintainable.
"Culprit may enjoy toying with investigators..." by Vary+Krishna · 2013-01-09 09:16 · Score: 4, Funny

Of course he does...
/sunglasses
He's playing cat and mouse.
Re:Death by kitty by CanHasDIY · 2013-01-09 09:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Meow what is so damn funny about that? Do I look like a cat to you, boy? Am I jumpin' around all nimbly bimbly from tree to tree? Am I drinking milk from a saucer? Do you see me eating mice?

You stop laughing right meow!

Damn, that was a great flick...

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The antivirus by shentino · 2013-01-09 09:23 · Score: 5, Funny

The antivirus is on orion's belt.
This is why you DON"T TALK TO POLICE by brunes69 · 2013-01-09 10:51 · Score: 4, Informative

EVER, for ANY reason.
Doesn't matter if you are innocent
Doesn't matter if you are guilty
Doesn't matter if you are just a bystander
Doesn't matter if they are just canvasing the neighborhood
Don't talk to police.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
1. Re:This is why you DON"T TALK TO POLICE by alexgieg · 2013-01-09 11:57 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  If a kid goes missing in your neighbourhood, and you saw some guy cruising around the playground earlier, are you still going to refuse to talk to the cops on a matter of principle? How would you feel if it was your kid, and some self-righteous prick didn't talk?
  It depends. How much do you want to bet on your not finding yourself in this scenario:
  The cop you talked to, in front of the judge, months later: "Yes, your honor, he confessed to have been watching the playground earlier that day, and to have been carefully focusing on the movements of both minors and non-minors alike. No, your honor, he couldn't provided any proof of where he were between the moment he told he had been watching the kids and their parents in the playground and the moment he contacted us. Yes, your honor, that was the time frame that kid disappeared. Yes, your honor, we found 3 volumes of so called 'manga comics' depicting relationship and implied sexual intercourse with minors in his house. Yes, your honor, his computer was full of pornographic imagery too."
  
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  Conservatism: (n.) love of the existing evils. Liberalism: (n.) desire to substitute new evils for the existing ones.