This story is making the rounds on the Internet. Read the Washington post article. I heard it on Cranky Geeks today.
Basically a substitute teacher is in a classroom,. the machines have no anti-spy ware, out of date un-patched software and the school's license for its firewall program has expired. The kids are looking at a hair product web site which suddenly kicks off a porn attack, opening a number of pornographic web pop ups. The teacher panics and runs to get someone. Some of the kids report the incident to their parents. The teacher is fired and then arrested... tried in a court of law and the jury convicts her and she can now face up to 40 years in prison.
It is a perfect example of how technologically challenged most average Americans are. The judge and the jury, not to mention her incompetent lawyer. This case should have never made it to a courtroom. This women was an innocent victim. The people responsible for the software and hardware in the school district are more guilty than she is, and no one is pressing charges against them. They are making it out like she brought the porn sites up of her own free will.
On March 2nd, if this women is sentenced to jail time, there has been a terrible mis-carriage of justice.
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