Kitty Porn?

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August 16th, 2009, 01:41 PM
nihil

Kitty Porn?

This is the best I have read in ages.....some guy is blaming his cat for downloading KP :D

Article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/07/man_blames_cat/

I liked this bit the best:

Quote:

The 48-year-old is being held on $250,000 bond in the Martin County jail. It is unclear if the cat was neutered.

:lildevil:

EDIT:

Worry not mes enfants, your intrepid global super moderator has scoured the interwebz and found the solution:

http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/

Errr......no, my CMOS battery has not failed..............I do not think that it is April 1st. :jester:
August 16th, 2009, 02:08 PM
t34b4g5

I got a giggle from this news article bout a cat who's just been awared a high school diploma.

Maybe the cat's met while doing this diploma course? :p
August 18th, 2009, 07:22 PM
thehorse13

I blame everyone but myself. lol.
August 19th, 2009, 03:56 PM
Cider

Big ups to him for atleast making it entertaining.
August 20th, 2009, 05:56 AM
nihil

Yes, he certainly isn't the sharpest tool in the box is he?

1. I have had cats and computers for years. At worst you get a popup menu or a system freeze.

2. The guy says this stuff "just appeared" after the cat had jumped on his keyboard..............so why didn't he "just delete it" then, as he obviously knew it was there? :rolleyes:

A much more plausible defence would be dodgy P2P sites and warez, but I think that the Sheriff has a lot more evidence that just the images;).
August 20th, 2009, 07:43 AM
Cider

I would definately have gone for P2P downloads and a virus infection :)

Maybe he thoguht that they would have heard it all before.

Not too many "IT" lawyers are there these days?
August 20th, 2009, 12:09 PM
t34b4g5

Quote:

Originally Posted by nihil

1. I have had cats and computers for years. At worst you get a popup menu or a system freeze.

Luck. I've had hardware failures from exessive cat fur, i've had systems fail due to the cat mashing all the keys.

I really need to lockdown these computers when i leave the room.:p
August 20th, 2009, 01:15 PM
The-Spec

I have a cat. He does all sorts of stuff with computers. He rolls around on the keyboard yelling, "LOLOLOLOLOL ROFLROFLROFL I rick-rolled you!"

More to the point, if people really wanted to do something about kid-porn then they'd shut down stickam and start arresting these kids. People need to crush their egos... let them know that they aren't cute kids, let alone attractive in any way.
August 20th, 2009, 10:21 PM
nihil

Quote:

More to the point, if people really wanted to do something about kid-porn then they'd shut down stickam and start arresting these kids.

Nah, this isn't about Stickam or whatever. Although that is illegal it is not even in the same ballpark because it is consensual. These are 100 octane pervs exploiting very underaged children.

Regarding what you say though, I did read the other day about some 14 or 15 year old kid got arrested for posting nude photographs of herself!

EDIT: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local...s-of-Self.html

Hey, you know what they say about the intewebz.................."Where men are men, women are men, and teenagers are federal agents" :eek:
August 21st, 2009, 08:28 AM
nihil

@t34b4g5

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Luck. I've had hardware failures from excessive cat fur,

Yeah, I have seen plenty of overheating related issues due to pet fur, but it isn't due to anything proactive on the part of the animal.............they just molt! :D Friction ball based HIDs suffer as well.

Quote:

I've had systems fail due to the cat mashing all the keys.

Yes, I have seen crashes and corrupted/nonsense data, but you shouldn't be able to cause physical damage that way. I think that a lot of the issue is down to hotkey sequences and how they are handled, particularly when entered at the wrong point in time.

@Cider

Quote:

Not too many "IT" lawyers are there these days?

Nor law enforcers, nor judges, nor juries.
August 24th, 2009, 02:18 PM
rcgreen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
August 25th, 2009, 08:42 AM
nihil

That doesn't work in this case. The "monkey" was only taken as an example because it has "fingers" so can type.;)

A cat has 4 paws and will hit multiple keys. Given this, I could accept that it might trigger a hotkey sequence but not navigate the internet. On the other hand, if I connected a monkey to Google it would doubtless get all sorts of results due to Google's fuzzy logic search capability.

I would accept that if you connect a dodgy P2P client to a dodgy P2P site then just about anything could hit you......trojans, viruses, p0rn bombs..........but that is not the defence here?

1. If this was a random event triggered by the cat, I would expect to see a single self-extracting file. The guy is facing 10 charges.

2. If this had happened more frequently then I would expect to see a whole load of random downloads, not all KP.:cool:

3. Windows Key+L? :rolleyes:

4. If the guy knew it was there why didn't he delete it?

5. If he didn't know it was there, then there will be no evidence that the files have been opened/viewed?

6. Something led the police to him. I would guess ISP logs showing contact with other P2P users with KP on their hard drives.

He really isn't very smart.............they busted one of his little friends as early as April 1st 2009.
August 25th, 2009, 02:48 PM
rcgreen

He's obviously desperate, trying to BS his way, hoping the
judge and/or jury has enough tech knowledge to understand
the jargon, but not enough to see how unlikely it really is.

In a case like this it would be better if the judge knew nothing
about technology at all and relied on "common sense"

"The dog ate your homework, eh?"
August 25th, 2009, 03:10 PM
Cider

I like the way Nihil goes into great detail how a cat cant do this sort of thing , lol :)
August 26th, 2009, 02:17 AM
gore

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cider

I like the way Nihil goes into great detail how a cat cant do this sort of thing , lol :)

I also found that kind of funny lol.

In their defense, Cat's are probably the most "Hacker" like of all pets people get. I mean, whatr other animal have you ever seen that will actually sit and figure things out and play with them?

I've found online while doing reading that someone was researching Cats as Animals and said they will actually "Learn" to open doors with levers and other things using trial and error to figure out a way to get out of a cage, and I thought it was interesting that they basically used the same problem solving skills people use when faced against setting themselves free from a cage of some sorts through trial and error.

Piranhas do have some basic skills, as do Ants (I've kept all three as pets) and I always thought when it came to insects, Ants were fairly interesting pets and that you could even help them learn.

If you buy an Ant Farm, take a Baby Aunt, and make an Island with Sand, and put the Baby on the other side. the Ants can actually figure out how build a bridge of Sand, and go across it to save the Baby.

I used to have a lot of different Ants as pets and always thought they were neat. Even the way they hunt and all that (I'd put a Fly in there and they would ambush it) and for Piranhas, they will almost sneak up and go after their food source. I had a full tank of Red Belly Piranhas as pets. They're really neat too.

Black Piranhas are smart too, they'll actually bite the air hose parts in half to make you put your hand in the tank to fix it. It's really amazing actually how they know that if they do that, you have to put your hand in there, and they can go after you.

You have to get a Glass Partition to fix things when you own one.
August 26th, 2009, 05:21 AM
The-Spec

Thats because when people think "surest candidates for dying alone" they picture a household overrun with cats.