Mar 3, 2007

Even worse.

So remember Julie Amero? She's the substitute teacher who is going to jail for 40 years because of spyware on a school computer. She was convicted because the prosecution had their computer forensics expect testify that she had been surfing the sites all day.

Just how much of an expert is he? Not one at all it turns out.

According to reports however, the Norwich Police's only "computer expert" Mark Lounsbury has little if any IT training, and relied primarily on his free "certification" on the ComputerCop Pro software, and the reports which it generates. The big issue: ComputerCop Pro is incapable of determining whether the URLs opened by Internet Explorer 5 were the result of human action, or of programmatic control through spyware or malware. Nevertheless, Amero was convicted on the back of testimony offered by Lounsbury.


Yeah. This case just becomes more and more messed up as time goes on. I seriously hope it gets thrown out.

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