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CrimsonTide4 · #31 09-12-2003, 08:08 PM

http://www.greeksource.com/gcforums/...FAKE $200 BILL

Taken from the Phony As thread in Chit Chat.

CrimsonTide4 · #32 09-30-2003, 12:06 PM

E-Spying on Your Lover Could Be Illegal - Experts
2 hours, 45 minutes ago Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!

By Elinor Mills Abreu

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A company calling itself Lover Spy has begun offering a way for jealous lovers -- and anyone else -- to spy on the computer activity of their mates by sending an electronic greeting, the equivalent of a thinking-of-you card, that doubles as a bugging device.

Computer security experts said the Lover Spy service and software appeared to violate U.S. law, but also said the surveillance program pointed to an increasingly common way for hackers to seize control of computers.

Marketed as a way to "catch a cheating lover," the Lover Spy company offers to send an e-mail greeting card to lure the victim to a Web site that will download onto the victim's computer a trojan program to be used for spying.

The Lover Spy software, sold for $89 for up to five computers, purports to record anything the victim does on the computer, including all keystrokes, passwords, e-mail, chats and screen shots and even turn on the victim's Web camera.

The spy program discreetly sends the information to the Lover Spy server which then forwards it on to whoever paid for the software, maintaining their anonymity, according to the company Web site, which did not list contact information.

"Lover Spy is being used today by private investigators worldwide, spouses and parents who want to protect their children," the site claims.

"You don't need physical access to the computer," said Richard Smith, an independent privacy and security researcher in Boston. "It makes it so you can spy on anybody you want."

"That would be a felony," said Mark Rasch, former head of the U.S. Department of Justice (news - web sites)'s computer crime unit and chief security counsel for security company Solutionary. "Loading a program onto someone else's computer without their authorization is patently illegal."

"Yikes! That is clearly a wiretapping violation," Chris Hoofnagle, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said when told of Lover Spy.

"It sounds a lot like a commercial version of Magic Lantern," the controversial program the FBI (news - web sites) proposed a few years ago to remotely install a keystroke logger onto people under investigation, he said.

Other spyware exists, such as eBlaster from Florida-based SpectorSoft, but it is installed manually and marketed for customers to install on their own computer, Rasch said.

"Typically, you have a husband or wife who puts a keystroke logger on the home PC to monitor what Web pages the spouse is going to and what e-mails they're sending," he said.

However, even installing a spyware program on your own computer may be illegal if it is recording the data of someone else without their consent, depending on the state in which the spying occurs, Hoofnagle said.

Not only could the Lover Spy company be prosecuted for selling software that enables spying, but the person who pays for the service could face up to 10 years in prison and fines for actual damages under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, he said.

Web sites that surreptitiously send programs to a visitor's computer are an increasingly security menace, said Chris Wysopal, research director at security consultancy AtStake in Boston.

"The risk has always been there, but when the tools are really easy to use you are going to see more spying going on," he said.

The only defenses are anti-virus software, which may be able to detect the spyware, and a personal computer firewall which can alert a user when the trojan tries to connect to the Internet to send data out, according to Wysopal.

People should be cautious about allowing Web sites to run unknown code on their PC, he added.

brickhouse492 · #33 09-30-2003, 02:49 PM

I guess all the cybersexy people better beware.

Lil' Hannah · #34 09-30-2003, 07:56 PM

scary.

CrimsonTide4 · #35 10-06-2003, 03:22 PM

Tiger and Alligator Shared Apartment
Mon Oct 6, 9:59 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York has been described as a concrete jungle, but one Harlem resident seems to have taken that literally as police were called in to remove a tiger and an alligator from his apartment.

Tipped off by phone calls from neighbors, police on Saturday found the wildlife in the apartment of 31-year-old Antoine Yates, who faces charges of reckless endangerment.

A police sharpshooter fired a tranquilizer dart through the window of the fifth floor apartment to subdue the tiger, which weighed up to 500 pounds (225 kg), according to an NYPD spokesman.

Along with the tiger, believed to be a Siberian-Bengal mix, police found a 3-foot (one-meter) alligator in the flat.

Yates was not on the premises when police rappelled down the side of the apartment building in their urban safari mission, but was found on Saturday night receiving treatment for animal bites at a Philadelphia hospital.

At the request of the NYPD, Philadelphia police were dispatched to make sure Yates did not leave the hospital until New York officers arrived to bring him back to Manhattan, a Philadelphia police spokesman said on Sunday.

The animals, who were moved to a New York animal shelter, will eventually be sent to a zoo in Ohio, according to Wes Artope, director of the New York City Center for Animal Care and Control.

WenD08 · #36 10-06-2003, 05:35 PM

i really believe there should be laws in place to prevent the import of these "exotic pets" ie. wild, undomesticated animals to be used as "pets". what kind of idiot would have a 400 lb.-plus tiger and an alligater living in their home? at the very least, this fool needs to be evicted.
how some folks think the way they do is mindboggling

CrimsonTide4 · #37 10-06-2003, 06:14 PM

Umm but I wanna know how did ol boy manage to have WILD KINGDOM in da projects!!?!?!?!?

Peaches-n-Cream · #38 10-06-2003, 06:36 PM

This story is all over the New York City news. One neighbor said that she didn't have to take her kids to the zoo now because they saw a tiger and an alligator up close. It is one of those bizarre, "only in New York" stories.

Dancerella1908 · #39 10-06-2003, 11:29 PM

Okay, how do you keep a 500 lb. tiger and a 3 foot alligator in an APARTMENT?! Were was the alligator kept, in the dayum tub...lol Also didn't the tiger need to be walked for exercise and to relieve himself. Who didn't notice a tiger roaring and coming in and out of an apartment? If the tiger didn't leave the apartment...ewww! WTH!!!

FeeFee · #40 10-07-2003, 10:11 AM

HC Dude was on television talking about how the tiger was like his brother - WTH??????

Dude has some sandwiches missing from his "picnic basket".

vanda · #41 10-07-2003, 01:59 PM

The neighbors below said water ws dripping into their apartment. They now find out it's Tiger urine. Now cats' urine have a strong smell so wouldn't that have tipped them off? How did he get it into his apartment? How did he keep it from growling?

CrimsonTide4 · #42 10-07-2003, 04:04 PM

Fake doctor charged in castration case
Tuesday, October 7, 2003 Posted: 10:17 AM EDT (1417 GMT)

McKEESPORT, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A man who police say posed as a doctor and castrated a transgendered woman at her request was ordered Monday to stand trial for aggravated assault.

Doug Lenhart, 48, also is charged with reckless endangerment and unauthorized practice of medicine and surgery. No trial date was set, and Lenhart was free on $25,000 bond.

Catherine Watson, 45, told a district court judge at a preliminary hearing that she nearly bled to death from the September 12 procedure, which was done on the dining room table of her McKeesport home in suburban Pittsburgh. She had to be hospitalized.

Asked by Justice Thomas Brletic if she wanted to see Lenhart prosecuted, a weeping Watson didn't answer directly.

"I don't want him to do this again. ... I don't think he's capable," she said.

Allegheny County prosecutor Shanicka Kennedy said Watson's wishes were irrelevant because the state was prosecuting.

Watson testified that she is a transgendered woman who became "Catherine" when she was 6. She found Lenhart through the Internet and agreed to pay him $800. He told her he was a doctor, but not licensed in Pennsylvania, and had performed 23 other castrations, she said.

Police say Lenhart has no medical license. His attorney, James Waymard, said Lenhart had "some experience in this area" and said he felt Lenhart was qualified to perform the procedure.

Watson said she was awake throughout the procedure and in "horrible pain." She said she believed she was bleeding internally, and a friend called an ambulance.

In April, a man was convicted in Pontiac, Michigan, of practicing medicine without a license for performing a castration in his kitchen. He was sentenced to 14 months to four years in prison.

Prosecutors said the man underwent the castration to curb his sex drive because he had a sexually transmitted disease.

WenD08 · #43 10-07-2003, 05:15 PM

this woman paid $ 800 to be castrated on a kitchen table? i know, sex change surgery is not cheap, it's way into the thousands but i would think i would pay a bit more than hundreds and i would expect a surgical clinic not a table people eat on. ewwww!!!

D.COM · #44 10-08-2003, 02:27 AM

NOTHING SURPRISES ME ANYMORE!!! (Especially ANYTHING that happens in NYC)

MOST people in this world are
S-T-R-A-N-G-E!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FeeFee · #45 10-08-2003, 09:13 AM

Oct 3, 8:26 am ET

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An enraged Ethiopian mother of five will be tried for the murder of her husband who died after she crushed his testicles in a fight, police told the state-run Ethiopian News Agency.
Police said on Friday the man was so embarrassed after the incident that he declined to seek treatment for the injury, and died days later.

"Following a disagreement over the husband's spending habits, his wife refused to give him his dinner and also decided to sleep alone," police in the western region of Wellega said.

"The husband was so angered by this affront by his wife that he tried to beat her. In the melee that followed, the wife grabbed and twisted his testicles causing serious damage."

Police said the unnamed woman, a resident of Wayu-Tuka district in Wellega, had had several arguments with her husband about the amount of money he spent on booze.