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Porn: Must Read

By Melody Evans and Kirk Redmond

If you are defending against a computer child porn case, this Slate article is required reading:Why Would a Virus Look at Kiddie Porn? The answer is,So other people could secretly view the porn. Fiola's computer had been taken over remotely by "botnet" operators, who lowered its security protections and may have sold child-porn enthusiasts access to the machine. This enabled people to view illegal images and videos by tutoring them in Fiola's Temporary Internet Files cache, as opposed to their own computers. Fiola remained oblivious to the tampering because the bot operators made sure they didn't slow down the computer too much by consuming lots of memory.Fiola, a Mass. state employee, was charged but the case was later dismissed. Not going into details here, but it explains how the wrong images could end up on your client's computer without his action or knowledge.continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Federal Defender on June 24, 2008 (boomark / email).