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 Julie Amero sentencing postponed, Norwich
"expert" speaks


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URL:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/02/28/
julie-amero-sentencing-postponed
-norwich-expert-speaks/[2]
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Julie Amero sentencing postponed,
Norwich "expert" speaks[4]2007/02/28 digg_url =
'http://digg.com/tech_news/Julie_Amer
o_sentencing_postponed_Norwich_expert_sp
eaks'; Julie Amero, the substitute school teacher convicted
of being an
internet n00b in a classroom with a severely outdated and
unmaintained
computer has had a brief, non-permanent reprieve from her
sentencing on four
felony counts. The hearing to decide her fate, which could
see her spending
up to 40 years in prison, was postponed until March 29th.
The
Norwich-Bulletin[5] does its typically biased job of
updating events in the
case, and reminds us, "forensic investigation of the
computer used that day
revealed she was actively surfing the sites nearly the
entire school day." 

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 "certif ication" on the ComputerCop Pro
software, and the reports wh!
ich it g enerates. The big issue: ComputerCop Pro is
incapable of
determiningwhether 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. 

Lounsbury has himself admitted to criminal activity in the
past[6]. In 2001
Detective Lounsbury admitted to drinking alcohol while
driving a minor child
in a police vehicle while involved in an underage drinking
sting operation.
He was never charged, and as far as searchable records show,
the
investigation essentially died a quiet death, leaving
Detective Lousbury in
his position as the chief investigator of computer crimes
involving children
for the Norwich Police Department.

Lounsbury has contacted PC World and stated that he has
evidence he is
unableto share with media until the sentancing phase of
Amero's trial is
complete. "I can provide you w/ the source code showing
all the .htm and
javascripting for each web page, images from those pages,
date/time of
creation, MD5 hashes, etc." Unfortunately, to hear a
computer "expert" refer
to ".htm" files as source code doesn't instill a
great amount of confidence
in his assessment. It's difficult for anyone with solid
understanding of
computers to see how MD5 hashes, used mostly to ensure a
file remains
unchanged from one sample to the next, could possibly have
any bearing on
Amero's guilt or innocence. It's likely that Lounsbury has a
giant ball of
nothing in his pocket, aside from some useless reports he
feels must say
something incriminating among all that gibberish he doesn't
fully
comprehend.

Lounsbury says he will share the "evidence" with
PC World[7] upon the
completion of Amero's sentencing, "I'm thinking the
world doesn't want to
hear th e truth. IGNORANCE IS BLISS. The lies are exciting,
bringing! up
STRONG emotions. OMG, that poor person, victimized by the
Evil Government
andits minions."

OMG, ROFL. Touché Detective Lousbury.

See Also:
Porn pop-up teacher gets new attorney, PC World outs
juror[8]
Malware victim faces jailtime; Write Connecticut's
Governor[9] 

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   1 http://www.downloadsquad
.com
   2 http://www.downlo
adsquad.com/2007/02/28/julie-amero-sentencing-postponed-norw
ich-expert-speaks/
   3 mailto:SirTrothverizon.net
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   5 http://www.norwichbullet
in.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070227/NEWS01/702270331/
1002
   6 http://
www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=594152
   7 http://www.pcworld.
com/article/id,129226-c,browsersecurity/article.html
   8 http://www.dow
nloadsquad.com/2007/02/23/porn-pop-up-teacher-gets-new-attor
ney-pc-world-outs-juror/
   9 http://www.dow
nloadsquad.com/2007/02/16/malware-victim-faces-jailtime-writ
e-connecticuts-governor/
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