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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.
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.
North Korea and historic Nazi Germany also has different laws. Does not mean these laws are sane, moral or acceptable.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
When I was a kid I had javascript on my homepage that would open your CD drive. I'd probably be looking at 10-20 these days, eh?
When I was a kid it was:
20 GOTO 10
Can you imagine the conversation in the prison cell?
"What are you in for?"
"Javascript popup, you?"
"A goto command in basic"
"Goto?! you monster!"
Ah, good old moral relativism! Who are we to tell Nazis that it's wrong to kill all their Jewish citizens? That's the height of entitlement! They're allowed to have their own rules!
Back then the fun hack was to edit someone's .login file so the first line was logout. Back in the days of VT-100 tubes connected to VAXen running Unix.
Half the shit we did back then would get us tossed in jail for 10+ years now.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
" Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean and ugly and nasty and horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, what did you do"? I answered "a goto command in basic" and they all moved away from me "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
No shortage of murdering kids in the country where there's a massive shortage of murders in general? Have you seen then murder numbers?
Citation or crawl back under your bridge on the "lack of shortage of child murderers in Japan".
Actually civilians usually weren't purposely targeted before WWII.
You may want to talk to the people of Georgia about General Sherman.
one example is not a citation backing up 'no shortage of murdering kids'