Feb. 22nd, 2007

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Via the story in the WindowsSecrets email newsletter, a case I hadn't heard of before. A Connecticut substitute teacher has recently been convicted of 'child endangerment' and is liable to a hefty sentence, because porn pop-ups appeared on an infected school computer she was using -- and although she tried to keep the kids from seeing them, she apparently didn't try hard enough for the liking of the prosecution and the jury down in CT, who seem shaky on the technical issues involved. The SecurityFocus site probably has the best coverage of the links given in that article.

Hard to know if you can generalise from this, but likewise for anyone in an educational situation, or working at certain companies, it might be worth avoiding, say, looking at your flist during your lunch hour, you know? Especially if you're a member of certain comms, or even the news comms. Because it strikes me that, for example, a page which has links to those NC-17 underage dubcon incest fics (or whatever) that they're so fond of reccing might just get you into serious trouble if noticed. We, inured to such stories, might just smile tolerantly or roll our eyes at such silliness as examples of the bizarre things the fen come up with -- but any normal person, not Lost In Fandom, would be liable to run screaming for the nearest police officer.

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