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- The verdict: Lori Drew is guilty.
- Lori Drew has been convicted of three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud in the MySpace suicide of young Megan Meiers, 13 when she hung herself. A jury deadlocked on a fourth count of conspiracy but reduced the charges from felony to misdemeanors. Said Tina Meiers, Megan's mother:...
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
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- MySpace suicide case: conviction overturned
- Today, federal judge George Wu officially overturned the conviction of Lori Drew, who was convicted of cyberbullying 13-year-old Megan Meier to suicide. That conviction was based on the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA, on the theory that Drew violated the law by violating MySpace terms of service....
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Net access no fundamental right
- Net access no fundamental rightSo let's all be barefoot and pregnant then.Especially in today's society where people with limited computer skills lose out for jobs, and how colleges demand students have broadband as a prerequisite as more and more classes have internet-based portions, or are completely internet-based...People need to keep...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Opening arguments in Drew case
- Opening arguments in Drew caseLori Drew caseI agree with Drew's attorney. The case is not about homicide.It is my fervent wish that all testimony be limited to her devious means of "protecting" her own daughter, while harassing someone else's.This case can set an important precedent in the matter of...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- Witnesses set for MySpace suicide trial
- Well, it's shaping up to be a juicy time at the trial of psycho-mom Lori Drew, the woman whose weirdo obsession with a neighbor girl led to the teen's MySpace-driven suicide. A long list of witnesses are poised to testify, Wired reports, including the parents of...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Lawsuit filed against NebuAd, ISPs
- Sixteen plaintiffs â€" and potentially millions more â€" launched a class-action lawsuit against NebuAd and 26 of its ISP partners in California court, ClickZ reports. The suit claims NebuAd and the ISPs violated privacy and computer security laws. Only six ISPs -- CenturyTel, WOW, CableOne, Embarq, Knology...
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- NebuAd, ISPs, named in class action lawsuit
- NebuAd, the controversial company that was trying to sell deep-packet inspection technology as a means of delivering more relevant ads, has already had most of the life sucked out of it. Now, a class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco today, could put the final nail...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Facebook and Beacon partners slapped with class action suit
- Facebook - along with Beacon partners Blockbuster, Fandango, Overstock and others - has been slapped with a class action lawsuit over the missteps that were taken when the Beacon program was launched last year. Techmeme And now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg's own public apology - an admirable fess-up for the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Drew pleads not guilty in suicide case
- Drew pleads not guilty in suicide caseBig TalkLet us know when that child of yours turns 13, then we can compare notes. I bet if that happened to your child you would be talking out of the other side of your mouth. We will never know exactly what...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Drew pleads not guilty in suicide case
- Lori Drew pled not guilty at her arraignment today, the Times reports, and had no comment, of course, to reporters. The Missouri mom is being tried in federal court in L.A. under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Bail was set at $20,000 and she was allowed...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- An (Imaginary?) Hannaford Conspiracy
- The regularity with which geezers like me see history repeating itself suggests some combination of memory influencing perception with an amazing continuity in the forces driving human behavior. Worse, our perceptions of what happened then may be wrong but influence our interpretations of what's happening during the perceived re-run anyway,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Is Microsoft fiddling with system files without permission?
- Is Microsoft fiddling with system files without permission?Its their OS which you rentso why shouldn't they update if they want?Sounds like Applehttp://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=496Just shoving stuff in at random with updates, trying to slide stuff by while not informing the end user.Hope MS hasn't looked too closely at Apple's playbook.have to agree...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- Sony Rootkits = Trouble (again!)
- Sony Rootkits = Trouble (again!)Getting the lesson across...IANAL, but my reading of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act says that at least the first of the Sony rootkit episodes is a serious felony. Since Kaspersky documented that many DOD computers were in fact involved, someone at...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- RIAA law strategy may be undercut
- RIAA law strategy may be undercutHm..Seems to me that the presence of a file in a publicly accessible directory would indicate intent to distribute.The RIAA can't be wrong all of the time.Using their logic would mean that anyone who doesn't secure their computerUsing their logic would mean that anyone who...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- Facebook and employment: an equal opportunity information trap
- After years of "fired blogger" stories in the headlines, it's fairly well understood that a frivolous, embarrassing, out-of-context, or ill-considered online data trail can and does cause problems for employment candidates and employees. But when CollegeRecruiter.com asked employment lawyer and blawger George Lenard to examine the increasingly common employer...
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Internal fraud coupled with IT savvy is a killer combination
- Internal fraud coupled with IT savvy is a killer combinationRounding errorA very clever scam was to move the money that disappeared when a transaction was rounded to cents to a special account. With enough transactions, the account held a substantial amount of money.Thieves may not be as clever as...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-14
- INTERVIEW: Lydia Segal on Government Waste and Corruption
- Some of the most dramatic examples of IT-related waste can be seen in public sector projects. To get a handle on why government projects are so problematic, I spoke with Lydia Segal, one of the nations foremost experts on waste and corruption in public schools. I asked Lydia to explain...
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
- Antispam confab looks beyond filters
- Antispam confab looks beyond filtersPatriot ActI don't know much about the Patriot Act but couldn't it be used to sniff out the spammers?Who's really making the money?I signed up for a free email account with *MAIL.COM* and immediately started receiving spam. I was just awe-struck! I never used that address...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
- Sony offers removal and replacement for rootkit DRM
- Sony offers removal and replacement for rootkit DRMMac & Linux SystemsThe Sony rootkit DRM has no effect on Mac & Linux systems -- they are immune to it, and the CDs function as ordinary audio CDs. YET ANOTHER REASON TO SWITCH TO MAC OR LINUX. Even though I use a...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-03
- Lawsuit filed against 180solutions
- A class action complaint against adware company 180solutions was filed today in an Illinois United States District Court by attorneys Shawn M. Collins and David J. Fish of The Collins Law Firm. The complaint on behalf of residents of the United States and the state of Illinois charges that...
- Blog posts 2005-09-13
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