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Jan 15
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The Tyranny of an Out of Control Justice System
Well I just learned of this today, Matt Bandy. Here is a 16 year old kid who was on the verge of being labeled a sex-offender for the rest of his life.
Think of this for a moment for all if you who have a computer in your house and just surf the web. You too can end up like Matt. Poor Matt, surfed the web and picked up little programs, generally termed spyware, that effectively took control of his computer. One (or more) of these spyware downloaded some porn, and child porn at that, to his computer. The police tracked the child porn to the family house and Matt’s computer had all these nasty little pictures on it.
Okay, child porn is bad and should not be allowed to exist. Those who take the pictures and purchase the pictures should be shot. However, Ward and June’s computer that has been infected by spyware that is storing child porn on the hard drive should not be convicted of anything other then gross incompetence on a computer.
I will say this . . . if you are going to purchase a computer for the home buy a Macintosh or a Linux machine. If you purchase a wintel based machine you are asking for trouble.
This child found himself in a nightmare from spyware. He was on edge of being convicted when 20/20 came to the rescue. Matt was convicted of showing a Playboy to his friends. I will admit I am glad for the statue of limitations.
I would hope that the governor of Arizona or George Bush will pardon this poor kid as well the teacher from CT. Arizona and other states please provide some training for police in how computers actually work.