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March 6, 2007

What’s That on Your Screen?

Another hair raising article, this one from the Times of London

Internet porn pop-ups cost this teacher her job and her freedom
The TimesMarch 03, 2007
Tim Reid in Washington

A teacher faces up to 40 years in jail for exposing her pupils to online pornography, amid an outcry from computer experts that she is the innocent victim of malicious software.

In a case that has become a cause celebre in the online world, where millions of rogue websites appear unsolicited on computer screens every day, Julie Amero is gathering a network of supporters who claim that she has been wrongly convicted over an incident she says has destroyed her life.

Amero, a supply teacher in the small Connecticut town of Windham, was convicted last month for exposing her class of 12-year-olds to graphic sexual images on the classroom computer. She contends the images were inadvertently thrust onto the screen by malicious software that she was powerless to stop. ” I’m scared” said Amero, 40. “i’m just beside myself over something I didn’t do.”

The case has become the internet-age equivalent of a teacher accused by a pupil of sexual assault, but this time–as one blogger in support of Amero claims — it appears she has been “framed by the computer.” Many computer users say that what has befallen her could happen to anybody.
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posted by Anna at 11:26 am |

1 Comment »

1. Comment by Ian, March 7, 2007 @ 8:25 am

   
   

   It absolutely could happen to anyone, especially on an admittedly unprotected computer.

   I find it astonishing that one can be a “computer crimes police officer” and never check to see if the machine is infected.

   
   

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