Sober Helps Catch Child Porn Offender

Beta News ^ | December 20, 2005 | BetaNews Staff

[Cicero]

Sober Helps Catch Child Porn Offender

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

December 20, 2005, 3:13 PM

For once the never-ending Sober worm actually did some good. A 20 year-old child porn offender turned himself in earlier this week after mistaking a message generated by the worm as an actual communiqué from Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office. The e-mail said "an investigation was underway," which apparently spooked the man into believing the authorities were aware of his online activities.

He was charged after police found pornographic images of children on his computer. A spokesman for the Paderborn, Germany police credited the worm with uncovering a crime that probably would have otherwise gone undetected. There is no word whether the worm has helped uncover any other crimes.

[Cicero]

This must be a first of some kind. A hacker achieves something socially useful.

[SouthTexas]

There is always a silver lining.

[NicknamedBob]

So, basically you're saying ... the worm has turned?

[Cicero]

I got a couple of those Sober Worm messages a couple of weeks ago instructing me to report myself to the FBI for rehabilitation. But so far I've refrained from confessing anything to them.

[jocon307]

Like a good German, once he thought his crime was detected, he went and turned himself in to the authorities.

[Cicero]

Bad German becomes Good German?

[Larry Lucido]

Well, my motto has always been, When Drunk doesn't work, try Sober.

[Senator Bedfellow]

Mine came from the CIA. You have to laugh at someone who takes these seriously - I mean, why would the CIA be interested in me? Are they gonna kick down the door and drag me off to GuanF^`&6~jdM|\=Dx_q>\pOuu^6$i!OGOi_~[LOPan0u_

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[NicknamedBob]

• I didn't do it.
  
  
• Nobody saw me do it.
  
  
• You can't prove anything.

[Ramius]

hehehe... not everybody is gonna get that.

[Senator Bedfellow]

It'll separate the men from the boys. Literally :^)

[Cicero]

Actually, during the Whitewater years there were a couple of Freepers who were visited in their homes by the FBI and the Secret Service for speaking incautiously about clinton and revealing their real identities.

Sometimes they sicced the IRS on clinton's critics, too.

We had to keep reminding people in the forum that there are certain things you must not joke about in public, like joking about killing the president or having a bomb in an airport.

Of course when people appear on TV and advocate murdering Henry Hyde and his family or assassinating President Bush, nothing happens.

[Windsong]

Definitely a Darwin winner. Maybe even "Dumbass of the Year".

[Cicero]

"There is no evidence."

--President clinton (on five or six different occasions)

[KoRn]

"Definitely a Darwin winner. Maybe even "Dumbass of the Year"."

Contender for "Dumbass of the Year" for sure. If only they were all this stupid.

[Windsong]

Of course when people appear on TV and advocate murdering Henry Hyde

He didn't "advocate" it. Baldwin JOKEd about it, hence why 100% of the audience laughed. BIG difference.

[VOA]

Of course when people appear on TV and advocate murdering
Henry Hyde and his family or assassinating President Bush, nothing happens.

Huh?
I thought that in those cases, the perps got a lot of free publicity,
more "street cred" with their fellow travelers in Hollywood,
and increased fees from film and TV appearances...

[Cicero]

I heard a recording of Baldwin's joke, and it sounded more like Howard Dean than Saturday Night Live. Way over the top.

[thoughtomator]

Just tell 'em your name, rank, and baud.

[traviskicks]

Lie, Deny, Counter-acuse.