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Re: [News] Use Linux for the Sake of the Children

  • Subject: Re: [News] Use Linux for the Sake of the Children
  • From: Ian Semmel <isemmelNOJUNK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:11:27 GMT
  • In-reply-to: <581610213.QkqU9moRGd@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: BigPond Internet Services
  • References: <581610213.QkqU9moRGd@schestowitz.com>
  • User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923)
  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1181038


Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Pervy hacker gets ten years

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| Thirty-six year-old Adrian Ringland of Ilkeston in Derbyshire pleaded
| guilty to forcing schoolgirls to send him explicit pictures after
| having infected their computers with a Trojan horse. The man posed
| as a teen in chatrooms and gained the trust of the girls, before
| planting malicious software onto their PCs. He masked the Trojan
| as a picture of himself, but once opened, he had full access to
| their computers and used the Trojan to blackmail the teens into
| sending explicit pictures.
| | [...]
| | Security folks over at Sophos are warning that it's only a matter
| of time before this happens again - "These children will not be the
| last to be abused via the internet using spyware," senior
| technology consultant for Sophos Graham Cluley said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35666

The subject line of this post has nothing to do with the link.

Perhaps it should read "Roy Schestowitz sinks to new lows in his mindless anti-windows obsession"

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