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Teacher could get 40 years for porn
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:41 pm
by Phlegm
It's getting insane. This is in Connecticut.
NORWICH -- State Prosecutor David Smith said he wondered why Julie Amero didn't just pull the plug on her classroom computer.
The six-person jury Friday may have been wondering the same thing when they convicted Amero, 40, of Windham of four counts of risk of injury to a minor, or impairing the morals of a child. It took them less than two hours to decide the verdict. She faces a sentence of up to 40 years in prison.
Oct. 19, 2004, while substituting for a seventh-grade language class at Kelly Middle School, Amero claimed she could not control the graphic images appearing in an endless cycle on her computer.
"The pop-ups never went away," Amero testified. "They were continuous."
The Web sites, which police proved were accessed while Amero was in the classroom, were seen by as many as 10 minor students. Several of the students testified during the three-day trial in Norwich Superior Court to seeing images of naked men and women.
Computer expert W. Herbert Horner, testifying in Amero's defense, said he found spyware on the computer and an innocent hair styling Web site "that led to this pornographic loop that was out of control."
"If you try to get out of it, you're trapped," Horner said.
But Smith countered Horner's testimony with that of Norwich Police Detective Mark Lounsbury, a computer crimes investigator. On a projected image of the list of Web sites visited while Amero was working, Lounsbury pointed out several highlighted links.
"You have to physically click on it to get to those sites," Smith said. "I think the evidence is overwhelming that she did intend to access those Web sites."
Among the sites Amero visited were meetlovers.com and femalesexual.com, along with others with more graphic names.
Defense attorney John Cocheo moved for a mistrial shortly before closing arguments Friday, based on reports jurors had discussed the case while eating lunch at the Harp and Dragon. Each of the jurors denied the allegation under questioning by Judge Hillary Strackbein and the motion was denied.
Cocheo, who said he was surprised by the verdict, especially with the "contradictory evidence," said he planned to appeal. Amero had no visible reaction to the verdict, though her family was obviously upset.
Amero, because the charges are felonies, faces 40 years in prison at her March 2 sentencing. Her family, present in court for entire trial, declined comment about the verdict.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:55 pm
by Zanchief
I went to ezbraod.com because NT once during a computer lab. That was kinda funny.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:59 pm
by Xaiveir
I wonder if the teacher was hot?
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:15 pm
by kaharthemad
i can produce the loop on any PC within 10 minutes. A computer crime scene investigator my ass. The only thing she was guilty of was not unplugging the fucking thing when it started up.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:42 pm
by Snero
that and the biggest part of the damning evidence against her seems to be that she had to click on some of the links to go to the pages. It's possible she was frantically clicking anything just trying to get rid of the page. This just seems sad to me
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:45 pm
by Gaazy
uhh yeah, sure, as if those 7th graders havent looked at internet porn before. Im sure they were so metally fucked by all this.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:29 pm
by kaharthemad
everyone has done the porn pop shuffle. you know "Oh crap" click click click..."shit there is another one" click click click "WTF are they doing together?"
I get them because I dont like trying to track down a damn cd everytime I wanna play a different game. sometimes I have to head out to the pirate boards for a crack or a serial that I have managed to misplace.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:36 pm
by Dimuza
arrr, matey. there be pirates here
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:46 pm
by kaharthemad
I was a pirate back when most of you were still not even sure what a computer was...
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:11 pm
by Arlos
Not all of us.
2 quick questions to determine some of the old-time hacker cred.
1) What was the Crystal Palace?
2) What special modification did the owner/operator of the Crystal Palace make to his hard drive?
-Arlos
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:27 pm
by Harrison
I used to have access to shitloads of 0-day dumps.
That form of piracy has gone the way of the dinosaurs though.
Hiding directories from admins in universities with matrices thousands of folders deep =
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:49 pm
by Dimuza
I used to be in a club where a buncha guys would meet every month or so....we'd all carry our whole setups (commodore 64's etc) to someone's house, and make copies of games for each other. we were very, verry geeky. thankfully, I've moved past that stage in my life
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:53 pm
by Tikker
Dimuza wrote:I used to be in a club where a buncha guys would meet every month or so....we'd all carry our whole setups (commodore 64's etc) to someone's house, and make copies of games for each other. we were very, verry geeky. thankfully, I've moved past that stage in my life
haha, I remember the days of fast hack'em and taking whole boxes of floppies to a friends house, and just copying everything
on a side note, you can now get a 8gb usb key for $100
that's like $5732857325325 worth of floppies
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:25 pm
by Naethyn
arlos wrote:Not all of us.
2 quick questions to determine some of the old-time hacker cred.
1) What was the Crystal Palace?
2) What special modification did the owner/operator of the Crystal Palace make to his hard drive?
-Arlos
crystal palace was a chat system with avatars
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:24 pm
by Arlos
Actually, the one I'm referring to was a hacker BBS from the early-mid 80s. Entirely possible there was something else of the same name, though. If you're familiar with the Crystal Palace I'm talking about, you'll know the answer to question #2.
-Arlos
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:29 pm
by kaharthemad
first off.
CP was founded around 1985. It was also known as the Citadel. it stayed up for about 1 to 2 years speculation was it droped most users and kept about 40 users.
Or are you talking about the chat system setup in california basically designed by a bunch of flaming faggots in 1996?
I ran around during the times of the TWC, and LOD starting in 1987 to about 1992. I ran on Safe Haven Net and was a fido net sysop of Mr. Chipps Compendium before going into the service. King Chipster of Atlanta Safe Haven fido net group trained me before dying of luekemia in Conyers Ga. I wrote cracks that were hosted on Rusty and Eddies BBS before they were shut down in 1996 rumor has it it was for software piracy but by this time I was working for a real living and my 5 years of glory much like my teenage years were replaced with kids.
The current rebirth of R and E's is not the same sysop and no clue if they are even still up. Which at its peak had 33 nodes and was running of of PCBoard.
Mainly I preferred WWIV.
I phreaked for a while mainly because my father was a supervisor for the 4eSS switching systems and had a habit of leaving books around the house which evitably would be pilfered off back to my room. 4eSS switches were being replaced at that time with the 6eSS so I was unable to conitue this line of fun for very long.
as for the Citadel, never messed with them they had become exclusive before my time and pretty much not many people outside of the orginal users were allowed in. Safe Haven was mainly my home. With excursions into rusty n eddies from time to time.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:43 pm
by Arlos
I was referring to the one from the 80s.
The singular modification the owner/sysop had made to his hard drive is directly related to why it disappeared so suddenly.
Basically, he had removed the external shell from his hard drive, and mounted above the platters 1 large iron spike, with just enough tensile strength in the supports to keep it from falling down under its own weight. Furthermore, he kept a large mallet by the computer 24x7. The purpose of this was very straightforward: As soon as he got that inevitable "*knock* *knock* Open up, this is the FBI" on his door, he would take the mallet, pound it down on the spike, driving it right through the spinning platters, causing them to completely disintegrate, rendering any data on them unretrievable, especially by the methods available at that time.
Later on, a friend of mine somehow got ahold of an independantly made modem designed for apple 2's, that had a special business-class feature: the ability to sync up directly to a WATS node. Using this feature, he could effectively dial into the WATS node, then redial out anywhere in the world from that node, effectively giving himself free long distance and making it impossible for him to get traced back, as any such queries would dead end at the WATS node. Eventually, all such nodes were upgraded to a new digital protocol, and his modem no longer worked to sync up with them, and he hung up his spurs.
As for me, I never did that much, just was on the periphery of the scene, though I was at one point offered the entirety of the LOD technical journals. Since I was getting old enough to get into REAL trouble if caught doing that, and the feds were gettin gmuch more draconian, I turned 'em down.
-Arlos
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:54 pm
by Lyion
I still like the guy who threw his PC out of his upstairs window when the Feds showed up, better than the spike story.
I remember being a BBS hound in the early 80s. While we were mysteriosuly cultish to most people, compared to today everything we did was lowjack, down to Applebasic most of us used. Stealing long distance time was considered such a huge deal back then. I doubt you could get the feds time of day with that today.
San Diego Pirates >>> Northern Cali *
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:00 pm
by Jesus
lyion wrote:I still like the guy who threw his PC out of his upstairs window when the Feds showed up, better than the spike story.
I remember being a BBS hound in the early 80s. While we were mysteriosuly cultish to most people, compared to today everything we did was lowjack, down to Applebasic most of us used. Stealing long distance time was considered such a huge deal back then. I doubt you could get the feds time of day with that today.
San Diego Pirates >>> Northern Cali *
I pirated a copy of Police Quest when I was like 6... does that count? This was a while ago though.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:14 pm
by Diekan
I'm not suprised she couldn't figure out how to control the computer - most teachers are dumber than a box of hair.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:01 pm
by Dimuza
I only did the free long-distance thing once. I was certain that I would get caught & my 15 year old ass would go to sing sing