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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [UPI] "FBI probes computer child porn at Cornell"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.184453.4548@eff.org>
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1992Nov21.170010.3289@eff.org> <9211211820.AA14627@crocus.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:44:53 GMT
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- ITHACA, N.Y. (UPI) -- The FBI is investigating whether a Cornell
- University sophomore has transmitted child pornography over computer
- bulletin boards, a report said Friday.
- The New York Times said agents this week raided a student's room as
- part of an investigation that began Nov. 11, after the administrator of
- another bulletin board told the Ivy League university of seeing material
- involving sexual exploitation of minors.
- The name of the student had not been released because he had not yet
- been charged with any crime.
- Agents said they were checking to see whether the student used
- graphics imaging technology to copy the pornographic photos onto
- computer files and transmitted them on Netnews, an internationally used
- bulletin board.
- The investigation is the third in the past four years centered on
- abuse of Cornell's computer system.
- In October, sophomores David Blumenthal and Mark Pilgrim were
- sentenced to community service for creating a computer virus that
- wreaked havoc on software as far away as Japan.
- In 1988, graduate student Robert Morris Jr. was convicted and fined
- $10,000 for launching a computer ``worm,'' which also destroys software
- but differs from a virus in that it is self-perpetuating.
- Cornell is located in Ithaca, N.Y., about 160 miles northwest of New
- York City.
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- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
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