[Gllug] What the government is doing it IT .

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:02:56PM +0100, Peter Adamson wrote:
> What happens id the person doing the framming, put some kiddie p0rn on 
> the other guys computer,
> and then rang up & give an anon tip?
> 
> Surely the requirment here to stop this from happening is acutally for 
> the police to be able to distinguish
> between "real" and "fake" evidence?

With computer crimes it's unfortunately very difficult, and I'm sure
such things have and/or will happen.

There was a recent case (reported in The Register, but I can't find it
at the moment) where charges were dropped, because the person's
computer had been infected with a virus which downloaded kiddie pr0n
to the local hard drive. IIRC the ISP called in the police when they
noticed said person ['s computer] visiting objectionable sites.

Having said that, it's a very good argument for not running Windows &
keeping your machine secure :-)

Rich.

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