Japanese Police Charge 13-Year-Old Girl For Sharing 'Unclosable Popup' Code Online (zdnet.com)

"Japanese police have brought in, questioned, and charged a 13-year-old female student from the city of Kariya for sharing [links to] browser exploit code online," writes ZDNet. An anonymous reader shares their report: The code was a mere prank that triggered an infinite loop in JavaScript to show an "unclosable" popup when users accessed a certain link, Japanese news agency NHK reported yesterday. The popup could be closed in some browsers -- such as Edge and Firefox on desktop -- but couldn't be closed in others, such as Chrome on desktop and the majority of mobile browsers.

The popup was hosted in several places online, and police say the teenager helped spread the links... The teenage girl did not create the malicious code, which had been shared on online forums by multiple users for the past few years. NHK reported that police also searched the house of a second suspect, 47-year-old man from Yamaguchi, and are also looking at three other suspects for the same "crime" of sharing the link on internet forums.
Ars Technica found a tweet suggesting that the code was actually written in 2014.

Comments

Re: Matter of perspective.

[dryeo]

Well, we didn't declare war on them until they invaded Poland and America waited until Germany declared war on them.
As for the Jews, first they tried to get rid of them. When no one would take them, they tried to create a homeland in Madagascar for them. When that failed, they came up with the final solution.
If the rest of the world cared, they could have let those refugee ships full of Jews land.
After the war, the Jews did get a big PR campaign going to lay down the guilt. Notice how little the Nazi's genocide of the Roma is talked about.
Most of the genocides that have happened since WWII also haven't resulted in military intervention.