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Police blotter: Child porn in Web cache OK

November 24, 2006 In this week's installment, court reverses conviction of man who viewed illegal porn but didn't know it was saved in his Web cache. TAGS: conviction, Police Blotter, defendant, Pennsylvania, cache, possession, evidence, prosecutor, image, law, Web browser, situation, hard drive

Spam conviction overturned

March 3, 2005 Judge says antispam law used to convict Jessica DeGroot perplexed jurors. TAGS: juror, conviction, Judge, anti-spam

Intel 'hacker' sentence expunged

March 4, 2007 Randall Schwartz, a former Intel contractor, has been cleared of a conviction for hacking into Intel systems. TAGS: conviction, supercomputer, contractor, sentence, Intel, hacking, password, security

Minnesota court takes dim view of encryption

May 24, 2005 Using PGP to encrypt files can be viewed as evidence of criminal intent, an appeals court rules. TAGS: Minnesota, appeals court, PGP Corp., conviction, Judge, evidence

Police Blotter: Is it legal to use an alias anymore?

October 12, 2007 Arizona senior citizen sentenced to 10 years for inventing the name "Peter Reynolds" and using it to open bank accounts, pay his monthly bills. TAGS: conviction, Police Blotter, Arizona, Cox Communications Inc., bank account, identity, Social Security, bank, citizen, social security number, identity theft

Police Blotter: Bondage Webmaster fights abuse conviction

May 23, 2007 Owner of SlaveSpace.com tries to overturn verdict saying he's guilty of criminal abuse of woman who volunteered to be his sex slave. TAGS: Police Blotter, conviction, Webmaster, U.S. District Judge, Maryland, photograph

'Tom Cruise' missile jokester arrested

February 6, 2007 Keith Henson, a fugitive since being convicted of interfering with Scientology, faces extradition to California from Arizona. TAGS: Scientology, Tom Cruise, Arizona, attorney, Usenet, conviction, California, bond

Police blotter: Texas student guilty in SSN hack

February 2, 2007 Former UT computer science student appeals conviction for writing program to guess Social Security numbers. TAGS: restitution, Police Blotter, Java program, Computer Fraud, conviction, student, computer science, social security number, Texas, Social Security, Java, password, database

Police blotter: Flap over nude photos of Cameron Diaz

October 20, 2006 In this week's installment, computer forensics is key to a case over nude photos of the actress. TAGS: forgery, Police Blotter, prosecution, evidence, conviction, appeals court, Ms., defense, expert, attorney, photograph, CD-ROM, laptop computer, hard drive

Police Blotter: MySpace profile sets convicted felon free

November 30, 2007 Man convicted of molesting two girls gets new trial after appeals court agrees jurors shouldn't have perused MySpace for one girl's profile. TAGS: juror, Police Blotter, West Virginia, girl, jury, MySpace, trial, verdict, conviction, appeals court, defendant, error

Police Blotter: MySpace profile becomes part of rape conviction

August 16, 2007 Man charged with statutory rape wants to use as evidence victim's MySpace.com page that falsely claimed she was 18 years old. TAGS: Police Blotter, girl, conviction, MySpace, Ohio, evidence, trial

Police Blotter: Necrobabes.com leads to murder conviction

June 21, 2007 Texas church leader is convicted of capital murder in part because of his AOL searches and visits to Necrobabes.com. TAGS: Austin, Police Blotter, conviction, jewelry, police, Texas, evidence, house, America Online Inc.

Police blotter: Trojan horse leads to porn convictions

August 25, 2006 In this week's installment, judge upholds conviction instigated by a hacker who reported incriminating files. TAGS: Police Blotter, SubSeven, conviction, Alabama, hacker, Turkey, law, trial, trojan horse, U.S., photograph, e-mail

Police blotter: Computer logs as alibi in wife's death

March 14, 2007 Court of appeals upholds conviction of man who says he was editing photos as wife searched online for ways to commit suicide. TAGS: Police Blotter, Wisconsin, suicide, conviction, evidence, wife, trial, mirroring, death, state, photograph, hard drive

Police blotter: Sysadmin loses e-intrusion case

January 13, 2006 Appeals court upholds sentence of former system administrator who deleted his colleague's account after losing his job. TAGS: Aventis, Police Blotter, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Computer Fraud, conviction, computer security, Missouri, computer system, evidence, IBM Corp., system administrator, fine, security

Police blotter: Net pharmacy conviction overturned

February 17, 2006 Web site owners convicted of running illegal pharmacy get new trial, after judges rule video testimony was unconstitutional. TAGS: witness, testimony, videoconferencing, defendant, pharmacy, Police Blotter, prosecution, conviction, trial, government, evidence, policy, prosecutor, Australia, attorney, U.S.

Tsunami 'hacker' keeps security job

November 11, 2005 Conviction under the U.K. Computer Misuse Act hasn't stopped Daniel Cuthbert from working for a tech security company. TAGS: Richard Starnes, conviction, unauthorized access, hacker, hiring, security company, U.K., security
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