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Hacker nabs child porn lovers: a case of pick your poison
The conviction of a Ronald Kline for possession of child pornography poses a moral dilemma in online security. Because the evidence in the case was collected by a hacker who illegally broke into Kline's computer.
The former judge has to serve a 27 month jail term and will a registered sex offender for the remainder of his life. The hacker, then 20-year-old Bard William from Canada, broke into his computer by posting a specially crafted file on a mailing list popular with child pornography downloaders.
There is no excuse for Kline's actions. But William is just as guilty of crafting malware and breaking into innocent people's computers.
If President Bush doesn't have the right to spy on US citizens, some random kid from a Canadian basement should be banned from those practices as well. Yet no legal charges have been filed against William, where at least Kline would have a very strong case against him.
He's doing his superman thing again...
February 23, 2007 at 12:02 AM | Permalink
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