RE: Vigilante Hacker's Evidence Puts Judge Behind Bars

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

Stuff like this is dangerous. I wrote about a similar case several years
ago.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1239017,00.asp

How do they provce the hacker didn't plant the evidence?

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

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Subject: [funsec] Vigilante Hacker's Evidence Puts Judge Behind Bars

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Interesting...

Via InformationWeek.

[snip]

A former California judge was sentenced this week for possession of
child pornography, five years after a vigilante hacker infiltrated his
computer with a Trojan horse computer program designed to weed out
pedophiles.

Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald C. Kline, 65, of
Irvine, Calif., was sentenced Feb. 20, to 27 months in federal prison
for possessing thousands of images of under-age boys engaged in sexually
explicit conduct. He pleaded guilty in December 2005 to four counts of
possession of child pornography, admitting that the images of child
pornography were on his home computer, two floppy disks and one portable
disk drive, according to a written release from the U.S. Attorney's
Office in the Central District of California.

The sentencing wrapped up nearly six year of legal wrangling over the
admissibility of evidence obtained from Kline's computer.

[snip]

More:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1970084
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- - ferg

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