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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Cached images were in his possession A man who admitted using his computer to view pornographic images of child abuse cannot go free just because he did not deliberately save the images, a US court has said. The ruling overturns a previous acquittal of the man.â¦
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To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS  Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2008   WASHINGTON, March 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal jury convicted a St. Croix, V.I. man of two counts of child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Alice S.
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A registered sex offender who served a four-year prison sentence for distributing child pornography was arrested this week on suspicion of telling an undercover detective online that he would pay for sex with a 10-year-old girl.
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By Daily Record Staff  A Belton man was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to eight years and one month in federal prison without parole for receiving child pornography over the Internet.  Jeffery A. Ray, 41, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary A.
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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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A man who admitted "cybersex" with a girl is jailed in what is thought to be a historic case.
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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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The first prosecuted copyright-infringement case involving BitTorrent technology could lead to up to five years of prison time and a quarter-million-dollar fine for the Pennsylvania man who pled guilty.
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A Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers to block Web sites deemed by the state's prosecuting attorneys to be child pornography has been reversed by a U.S. federal court on free-speech grounds.
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Bloggers have helped to force a fresh trial in a case which saw a teacher accused of letting pupils see porn.
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Three men held in an international child porn inquiry are charged with making and possessing indecent images.
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By Michael Hinkelman, Philadelphia Daily News  Feb. 2--Bail was revoked yesterday for a Drexel Hill woman charged with helping alleged child molester John Jackey Worman produce child porn.   Dorothy Prawdzik, 43, had been free on $100,000 bail, but prosecutors convinced U.S.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a 200-year prison term for an Arizona man convicted of possessing 20 child pornography images, turning down his appeal arguing the sentence was excessive or cruel and unusual punishment.
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Things just aren&#39;t going well for Timothy Scott Short. Just days after a pair of tech support calls he made to printer manufacturer Digimarc&#160;resulted in his arrest, he now finds himself on the receiving end of a data breach with his Social Security number and birthdate accidentally made public via the federal court&#39;s Electronic Case Files (ECF) system.It&#39;s an ironic development, because Short, 33, was arrested in connection with the Oct. 5 theft of a Missouri Department of Revenue printer and a PC containing data on as many as 500 state residents.Short&#39;s personal information was discovered by the IDG News Service, listed on a court document called a Criminal Case Cover Sheet, which was publicly available to users of the ECF system. Normally, this document should only be accessible to those involved in the case, but it appears to have been inadvertently made public, according to a clerk with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, who asked not to be identified because she was not authorized to speak with the press. &quot;It&#39;s something on our side,&quot; she said, adding that technical staff is now looking into the problem.The U.S. Judicial Conference, which sets policy for U.S. courts, has said that this kind of information should be removed from publicly available electronic court records, but actually removing all the sensitive information has proved difficult.&quot;If you went online to various court systems, you could find social security numbers of many individuals,&quot; said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy with the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. &quot;It&#39;s a really, really difficult question to answer, just because you&#39;re dealing with so many jurisdictions.&quot;Social Security numbers are the building blocks of identity theft crime because they can be used to secure credit cards. &quot;Any time you are placing Social Security numbers online, your are subjecting that person to identity theft,&quot; Stephens said.With the push to make public documents available online, other government databases have had similar problems. Earlier this year, the states of California and Colorado were forced to take their Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) databases offline after privacy advocates pointed out that the Social Security numbers and other data they contained could be misused by identity thieves.Short, however, may have bigger problems to worry about. He&#39;s facing $250,000 in fines and 10 years in prison on charges of possession of &quot;document-making implements&quot; in connection with the theft. He was arrested after U.S. Secret Service Special Agent John Bush recognized his voice in calls placed to a tech support line of the company that makes the stolen printer.&#160;
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A jailed man who told his family he was in Thailand is sentenced for keeping child pornography.
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'Erroneous' testimony to the rescue Julie Amero, the substitute teacher convicted of four felony counts when a computer in her classroom subjected seventh-graders to pornographic images, has been granted a new trial in light of fresh forensic information that came to light following her first trial.â¦