RE: 'Embarrassed' Gun Suspect Sues Microsoft After FBI FindsSex Videos On His PC

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

Now this is what funsec should be all about

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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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 6:07 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] 'Embarrassed' Gun Suspect Sues Microsoft After FBI
FindsSex Videos On His PC

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Via InformationWeek.

[snip]

A man awaiting trial for alleged gun crimes is suing Microsoft for
privacy violations after FBI agents seized his home computer during a
raid and found files containing sexually explicit videos of him and his
girlfriend and evidence that he frequented pornographic Web sites.

Michael Alan Crooker, currently in jail in Connecticut, says security
features advertised by Microsoft and its business partners should have
kept federal agents from accessing the files on his PC. In court papers
filed this week in Massachusetts Superior Court, Crooker says he
"suffered great embarrassment" as a result of Microsoft's failure to
keep the FBI's prying eyes off his computer.

He is suing the software maker for $200,000 in compensatory and punitive
damages.

[snip]

More:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1977008
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- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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