Teacher convicted due to porn pop-ups
A substitute school teacher in Connecticut has been found guilty of exposing children to porn (four counts of risk of injury to a minor, or impairing the morals of a child). This is all because of the pop-ups that appeared on infected school computer. She could face up to 40 years in prison. SunbeltBlog points to some interesting aspects of this case and asks; is this a miscarriage of justice?
Loading ...
on February 5th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
[...] The story of a substitute teacher who was found guilty of exposing children to porn has grabbed a lot of interest from everyone. The details of the case indicate that lack of understanding in technology has played a big role in conviction of the teacher. Now a team of security professionals lead by Alex Eckelberry, president of anti-spyware company Sunbelt Software, hopes to put the case to rest. They’re equipped with the image of the disk from the Windows 98 SE computer This was a Windows 98 SE machine with IE 5 and an expired antivirus subscription. It hadn’t been update since August, and there was no anti-spyware, no pop-up protection, no firewall and no content filters. Regardless of whatever happened, this machine was a machine that should not have been the Internet. [...]