RE: Vigilante Hacker's Evidence Puts Judge Behind Bars

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

I don't want to delve into sophistry, but presumably all of those media
were at some point connected to the computer (the article doesn't say
that they weren't connected). Why couldn't the trojan write to them when
they became connected?

You better hope that guys like this "hacktivist" don't take a disliking
to you or they'll plant something on you and call their buddies at the
FBI. What a way to run a legal system.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dude VanWinkle [mailto:dudevanwinkle () gmail com] 
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:31 PM
To: Larry Seltzer
Cc: Fergie; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Vigilante Hacker's Evidence Puts Judge Behind Bars

On 2/23/07, Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:
> Stuff like this is dangerous. I wrote about a similar case several 
> years ago.
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1239017,00.asp
>
> How do they provce the hacker didn't plant the evidence?


how would he plant evidence on _external media, such as cd roms and
other hdd's not connected to the computer, which the proffered article
referred to

-JP
"RTFM dude!"
-every admin since the dawn of time, up through the end of the
multiverse
> Larry Seltzer
> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> http://security.eweek.com/
> http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larryseltzer () ziffdavis com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> On Behalf Of Fergie
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 1:55 PM
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: [funsec] Vigilante Hacker's Evidence Puts Judge Behind Bars
>
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> Interesting...
>
> Via InformationWeek.
>
> [snip]
>
> A former California judge was sentenced this week for possession of 
> child pornography, five years after a vigilante hacker infiltrated his

> computer with a Trojan horse computer program designed to weed out 
> pedophiles.
>
> Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald C. Kline, 65, of 
> Irvine, Calif., was sentenced Feb. 20, to 27 months in federal prison 
> for possessing thousands of images of under-age boys engaged in 
> sexually explicit conduct. He pleaded guilty in December 2005 to four 
> counts of possession of child pornography, admitting that the images 
> of child pornography were on his home computer, two floppy disks and 
> one portable disk drive, according to a written release from the U.S. 
> Attorney's Office in the Central District of California.
>
> The sentencing wrapped up nearly six year of legal wrangling over the 
> admissibility of evidence obtained from Kline's computer.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=19700
> 84
> 31
>
> - - ferg
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