14 DAY TRIAL // "The Internet is for Porn!" said a song that roamed the web a couple of years ago, being lip synced to all sorts of characters, from Disney's famous Alladin to World of Warcraft Tauren that acknowledged that they seek mostly pornography when using the Internet. Nothing closer to the truth with about 80-90 percent of it being actual porn.
The case that "Amor Hilton", an 18-year old MySpace user that has a video streaming show on Stickam.com, presented the LAPD with is strange and sick, but representative of the dangers that lurk around every corner on the Internet. She filed a complaint to the police that her account on the social network had been stolen and that in return for it she was asked for nude photos and phone sex.
The culprit that the LAPD found is Jeffrey Robert Weinberg, aged 22, a convicted hacker that was under federal supervision. He is currently being held without the option of bail, because he has just started the three year term of federal supervised release. Bad luck for the youngster who has just added "one count of knowingly accessing a computer to defraud; adding, altering, deleting or destroying data on a computer without authorization; unlawful disruption of computer access; making obscene or threatening phone calls; and making unlawful use of personal identification information" to his file, as Kevin Poulsen of Wired.com's Threat Level mentioned.
This comes just as MySpace announced last week that it would do all it can so that sexual predators are stopped and signed a deal with attorney generals from 45 states in the U.S. Luckily, the police caught Weinberg before the filters announced by the social network would be set in place. This is also a warning to everybody to be careful what content they upload to their profiles for it might spur the wrong people and nobody wants to be the target of extortion.