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Arrest Made In Webcam Highjacking Extortion Case
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "CNN reports that Jared James Abrahams, a 19-year-old computer science student, has been arrested for allegedly hijacking the webcams of young women — among them reigning Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf — taking nude images, then blackmailing his victims to send him more explicit material or else be exposed. Abrahams admitted he had 30 to 40 'slave computers' — or other people's electronic devices he controlled — and has had as many as 150 total. His arrest came six months after a teenager identified in court documents as C.W. alerted authorities. She has since publicly identified herself as Cassidy Wolf, the recently crowned Miss Teen USA. Wolf received messages featuring pictures of her at her Riverside County address and others apparently taken months earlier when she lived in Orange County, says the criminal complaint (PDF). The message explained 'what's going to happen' if Wolf didn't send pictures or videos or 'do what I tell you to do' in a five-minute Skype videoconference, according to the criminal complaint. 'Either you do one of the things listed below or I upload these pics and a lot more (I have a LOT more and those are better quality) on all your accounts for everybody to see and your dream of being a model will be transformed into a pornstar (sic),' wrote Abrahams. FBI agents raided Abrahams' Temecula home in June and seized computers and hardware, cellphones and hacking software, court records show. Outside the court, Abrahams' lawyer, Alan Eisner, said that his client's family feels 'profound regret and remorse' over what happened. Eisner told CNN affiliate KTLA that Abrahams is autistic. 'The family wants to apologize for the consequences of his behavior to the families who were affected.'"
since she didn't secure her computer enough
Funny how being caught does that to people.
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He should join the NSA once he's out of jail. He has a bright future there.
What a scapegoated noob. At age 19 most had far more :)
>> If you expand the definition of rape to include anything you don't like, it will end up being a word with no real meaning at all.
Oh, quit yer raping.
When an attractive young girl accidently shows more of herself than she wants to, you need to be conscientious and respectful and look away.
When I show accidentally more of myself than I want to, you do not need to be respectful to look away. You will look away for your own sake, or what you see will be its own punishment.
I think y'all know what I'm getting at. You've seen Clockwork Orange.
Lies... All lies... Everybody knows there aren't any Girls on Slashdot (let alone the internet)... :P
bork bork bork!
Young Jared James Abrahams, I hereby sentence you to 20 years of coding for the NSA. Our country needs young innovators with such talents to preserve our eternal safety from those who would do us harm. As your reward, you can have access to all the nude webcam photos you want, we have the worlds largest data center chock full of the bestest stuff.
Vonnegut was right: Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."
If we're throwing away definitions, why not call it mass genocide, detonating WMDs, or even worse, patent troll?
Pics or it didn't happen.
No left turn unstoned.