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downquark1

29-01-2007 07:41

40 Years for failing to control spyware

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01...yware_teacher/

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/...12/1002/NEWS17

http://www.dardoz.com/teacher-faces-...-her-students/

Fox news video

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A teacher whose classroom PC displayed pornographic images to school children faces up to 40 years imprisonment.

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The prosecution alleged that this cycle of graphic images was the result of Amero actively visiting pornographic sites. State Prosecutor David Smith questioned why she didn't simply pull the plug on the PC.

The defence unsuccessfully argued that computer spyware was to blame. Amero claimed she could not control the graphic images that began circulating on the PC. "The pop-ups never went away. They were continuous," she testified.

zing_deleted

29-01-2007 08:20

Re: 40 Years for failing to control spyware

Well 40 years is extreme to the max for this. The maddest thing for me is the fact the teacher is female just goes to show dont it ;)

Delta Whiskey

29-01-2007 08:34

Re: 40 Years for failing to control spyware

How the heck can they convict her?

"It's easy to understood how someone, like Amero, not knowledgeable about computers, might panic in such circumstances. The license for the school's content filtering software, which (if working) would have blocked the images, had expired."

DW

Maggy

03-03-2007 22:58

Internet porn pop-ups cost teacher her job and her freedom

Rather worrying... :erm: :(

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/...cle1464355.ece

Chris W

03-03-2007 23:06

Re: Internet porn pop-ups cost teacher her job and her freedom

Only in America...

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She tried to stop the students looking at the screen, but several saw sexually explicit photographs. It was school policy not to turn off computers.

Surely common sense would prevail in such cirmcumstances... If the policy stated the computer couldn't be turned off, why not just turn off the monitor?

zing_deleted

03-03-2007 23:10

Re: Internet porn pop-ups cost teacher her job and her freedom

well a the schools security was lapse in the extreme . No pop up blockers ??? what OS are they on, The poilce did no check for malware I mean wtf is all that about no firewall no mention of AV,principle saying no one else had problems with pop ups? but if pop ups are not blocked by software on the computer I cant see how other machines are not subject to them unless the machine in question is the only one without protection. On the other side of course a simple restart would have got her out the poop

Tezcatlipoca

03-03-2007 23:11

Re: Internet porn pop-ups cost teacher her job and her freedom

Maximum sentence of 40 years?! :rolleyes:

Surely that could've happened to anyone.

zing_deleted

03-03-2007 23:12

Re: Internet porn pop-ups cost teacher her job and her freedom

Even if she was looking at porn and the kids caught a glimpse cuz of pop ups or whatever 40 years is extreme but the charge is causing injury to a minor but still

bopdude

03-03-2007 23:14

Re: Internet porn pop-ups cost teacher her job and her freedom

OK, I'm having a case of DEja Vu, didn't this get talked about, about a week ago, here :shrug:

TheNorm

04-03-2007 08:23

Re: Internet porn pop-ups cost teacher her job and her freedom

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Shortly afterwards, she says, pornographic advertisements flooded the screen. She says she tried to click them off, but they kept popping up, and the barrage lasted all day...

She didn't think to tell someone? Surely as soon as she passed the information on to her "line manager" the problem ceased to be entirely her responsibility.

Maggy

04-03-2007 12:54

Re: Internet porn pop-ups cost teacher her job and her freedom

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Originally Posted by bopdude (Post 34241260)

OK, I'm having a case of DEja Vu, didn't this get talked about, about a week ago, here :shrug:

Well in that case I missed it and I did check..can you find it?:erm:

Graham M

04-03-2007 13:15

Re: Internet porn pop-ups cost teacher her job and her freedom

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/20...l-spyware.html

here :)

Maggy

04-03-2007 14:29

Re: Internet porn pop-ups cost teacher her job and her freedom

Thank you..Maybe a MOD can merge this one into that one.Sorry.

Tezcatlipoca

04-03-2007 17:34

Re: 40 Years for failing to control spyware

Done.

TheDaddy

05-03-2007 00:36

Re: 40 Years for failing to control spyware

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb (Post 34208604)

Well 40 years is extreme to the max for this. The maddest thing for me is the fact the teacher is female just goes to show dont it ;)

If the facts are anything like the articles state, her lawyer deserves to be reported to their equivalent of the Bar Council after this debacle, his poor representation has wrecked this women's life, her career and given her the possibility of a jail sentence, whilst I would have thought a jail sentence is unlikely, it just goes to show what a lot of people think, you get whatever justice you can afford there

Paul	05-03-2007 01:09

Re: 40 Years for failing to control spyware

Perhaps she should have shot a few - she'd probably get less than 40 years for that :rolleyes:

downquark1

07-06-2007 17:10

Re: 40 Years for failing to control spyware

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6729905.stm

God/Dawkins bless bloggers.

TheNorm

08-06-2007 22:28

Re: 40 Years for failing to control spyware

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The case was subject to strong criticism by many bloggers, legal experts and security professionals.

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