Child porn defendant locked up after Zip file encryption broken
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A Texas man pleads no contest to child pornography charges after a government investigator easily gains access to a password-protected Zip file and allegedly discovers illegal images.
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WASHINGTON - Moving against Internet crime, the Justice Department on Wednesday disrupted a network allegedly used to illegally share copyrighted files and was engaged in a series of arrests against purveyors of e-mail "spam."   In the copyright case, search warrants were executed by the FBI in Texas, New York and Wisconsin targeted at computer servers that allowed users to illegally share music, movies, software and games.    The case marks the first federal criminal copyright action taken against a peer-to-peer, or P2P, network in which users can access files directly from the hard drives of fellow users' computers...
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A convicted sex offender who was released from prison over prosecutors' objections has been charged with raping a 6-year-old at a public library while the boy's mother used a computer nearby.
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By Tona Kunz Daily Herald Staff Writer  A St. Charles man was sentenced to probation for possessing child pornography.  Glenn J.
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NOVATO, Calif.  -- A man charged with computer theft apparently couldn't restrain himself -- prosecutors say he stole computers from the courthouse during his trial.
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The federal government is asking a U.S. District Court in Vermont to order a man to type a password that would unlock files on his computer, despite his claim that doing so would constitute self-incrimination.
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A federal judge gives Pennsylvania's internet child pornography law the boot. The controversial law required ISPs to block child porn websites, but in doing so, they prohibited access to many legal sites, leading to a 'massive suppression' of free speech.
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Simply using computer equipment to view child pornography is not a federal crime, a federal appeals panel ruled Friday in reversing the conviction of a Florida man.
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VIENNA -- Investigators shut down a child pornography ring involving 2,361 suspects in 77 countries who paid for Internet videos showing children subjected to "the worst kind of sexual abuse." Officials said yesterday that 607 of the suspects were in the United States, 466 in Germany, 114 in France, and 23 in Austria. Most of those under investigation were suspected ...
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Justice Department attorneys, defending a law aimed at keeping online pornography from minors, argued that software filters often block valid sites &#151; on gay rights or sexual health, for example &#151; that teens might seek out.
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LAFAYETTE - A DeRidder man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison on federal child pornography charges.  Jeffrey Johnson, 37, was convicted in August after a one-day trial.
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The Department of Justice on Wednesday said that an employee of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration who used his work computer to download child pornography has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Mouse-trapped Comment Substitute teacher Julie Amero faces up to 40 years in prison for exposing kids to porn using a classroom computer, but the facts strongly suggest that she was wrongfully convicted. Many issues remain, from the need for an independent computer forensics investigation and the presence of spyware and adware on the machine, to bad or incomplete legal work on both sides of this criminal case.â¦
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Relying on a law against advertising child porn, federal authorities win a mandatory 15-year sentence against a Kazaa user for sharing kid porn online. One official describes the crackdown as an "innovative" use of the law, in a case now moving to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The first Australians charged after a huge child pornography crackdown appeared in court on Friday, as police warned further arrests were likely.
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A teacher is told he faces jail after being found guilty of using his computer to access child pornography.
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A U.S. Court of Appeals panel has ruled against a Missouri man who was seeking to overturn a guilty plea in a precedent-setting case involving his use of the Kazaa file-sharing network to download and store child pornography images.