[Nikke Lindqvist]

Sobermasken är inte bara skadlig! I Tyskland har en 20-årig pedofil trott på ett av de där "You visit illegal web sites"-mailen och själv anmält sig till polisen!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051220/...ermany_worm_dc

BERLIN (Reuters) - A child porn offender in Germany turned himself in to the police after mistaking an email he received from a computer worm for an official warning that he was under investigation, authorities said on Tuesday.

"It just goes to show that computer worms aren't always destructive," said a spokesman for police in the western city of Paderborn. "Here it helped us to uncover a crime which would otherwise probably have gone undetected."

The 20-year-old was caught out by a version of the "Sober" worm, a prolific Internet virus which can invade computers and then send out messages from a host of fabricated addresses.

The trap was set when the man got an email saying "an investigation is underway," that listed the sender as Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). Police charged him after finding pornographic images of children on his home computer.

[Andreas Bard]

Skönt att det kan komma till nytta också då . . .

[patrikweb]

Dumma tyskar säger man bara, var nog lika bra att han åkte fast. Är man så korkad så vet man inte var en sådan person skulle kunnat gjort i sitt liv.

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