full-disclosure - AV companies better hire good lawyers soon.

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Message-ID: <ufwtyw1vpx.fsf@devnull.wylie.me.uk>
From: shyyqvfpybfher at wylie.me.uk (Alan J. Wylie)
Subject: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon.

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:22:56 +0200, Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de> said:

> There are also reports that someone with child porn on his hard disk
> got away because he claimed that the virus did it.  The case I
> remember was in the UK, but I think there also was one in the U.S.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/24/trojan_defence_clears_man/
http://www.getreading.co.uk/story.asp?intid=6541

| Karl Schofield, 39, of Reading, was found not guilty after
| prosecutors accepted expert testimony that the unnamed Trojan could
| have been responsible for the presence of 14 child porn images on
| Schofield's PC.

One has to wonder when courts accept that GBP 500/day defence
contractors can reasonably be expected to unknowingly have their
computers infected with malware, what hope is there for the average
user?

Also, am I the only person who finds this statement a bit odd?

| "I knew I would be found not guilty. It was ridiculous because there
| was not one dirty mag or dirty video in the house I was living in
| with my dad, mum and wife."

-- 
Alan J. Wylie                                          http://www.wylie.me.uk/
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