Stuff like this is dangerous. I wrote about a similar case several years ago.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1239017,00.asp How do they provce the hacker didn't plant the evidence? Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fergie Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 1:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [funsec] Vigilante Hacker's Evidence Puts Judge Behind Bars -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Interesting... Via InformationWeek. [snip] A former California judge was sentenced this week for possession of child pornography, five years after a vigilante hacker infiltrated his computer with a Trojan horse computer program designed to weed out pedophiles. Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald C. Kline, 65, of Irvine, Calif., was sentenced Feb. 20, to 27 months in federal prison for possessing thousands of images of under-age boys engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He pleaded guilty in December 2005 to four counts of possession of child pornography, admitting that the images of child pornography were on his home computer, two floppy disks and one portable disk drive, according to a written release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Central District of California. The sentencing wrapped up nearly six year of legal wrangling over the admissibility of evidence obtained from Kline's computer. [snip] More: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1970084 31 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFF3zhpq1pz9mNUZTMRAoziAJ4ikgN3V7ZNf6dAXzEJwvjYgOXQIACgrT4y 8/UUwXQf9We9ZMhY301Bwa4= =kITn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
