A man walked into the Apple store to report that something was wrong with his image collection. This was true enough.
Raymond Miller, of … Fairfield, told Apple store clerks the computer had a problem with image files, court records show. After a technician began looking through the computer, images of naked 10- to 13-year-old girls in suggestive and explicit poses were found, according to court documents.
You’d think that someone taking a computer for servicing would think to remove the cache of illegal smut before doing so. [The Advocate via The Consumerist]
Photo: The Advocate
So basically, next time a customer I don’t like walks into my Apple Store, I can put few illegal images (after changing the date of the computer) and he is going to be arrested and charged for a class-B felony ?!
Great tip!!!
Yes, I’m sure your plan would withstand the scrutiny of forensic investigators!
@ROB: You wouldn’t want to be there when the forensics guy finished figuring out that you planted them; but merely having someone arrested on kiddie porn related suspicions(particularly in front of a crowd of Apple customers, a fair percentage of which are virtually certain to have, and use, internet connected cameras most of the time) would be a pretty nasty hit.
Kiddie porn is one of those charges of which you are never innocent, merely acquitted, in the public mind.
“They show up too young”
Dumbest. Pedo. Ever.
I mean, the guy was likely doing sick, illegal stuff, and got caught for it, and that’s a good thing. But really, dude? What the hell did you think was going to happen?
Maybe this was his version of a cry for help?
Would this story have been BBG news worthy if that had happened on a regular PC … and did not involve the holy name of Cupertino fruit somehow?
They need to check his iPod asap!
Isn’t this what happened to former Glam Rock star turned bald monster Gary Glitter?
Original article says
“Court documents show Miller came into the store Sunday afternoon because his Power Mac G5, a high-end desktop computer, was pulling photos from its hard drive and using them to overwrite thumbnails of other pictures in his photo libraries.”
That does sound like maybe he didn’t know the files were there, and it would be pretty easy to write a shell script to grab stuff of the internet and overwrite random image files, so maybe this guy has someone out to get him.
Wasn’t there a Flash bug a few weeks ago that would allow an attacker to do exactly this?
Kiddie porn is one of the crime that can face up to 3 years in prison, i guess what would had happened to this guy.