California man accused of planting spyware to photograph women

[Hot Mega]

Another asshat getting what's coming to him..He should be charge with multiple counts of breaking and entering, as a sex offender in addition the the cyber crime shit their going to throw at him...

Kudos to the cops for nabbing the bastard.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 20-year-old California man was arrested on Wednesday, accused of planting spyware on dozens of computers to secretly photograph women in a state of undress, police said.

Trevor Harwell was taken into custody at his home in Fullerton, where detectives found hundreds of thousands of the pictures on his computer, Fullerton Police Spokesman Sgt. Andrew Goodrich said.

Harwell is accused of installing the program, which gave him remote access to the user's computer and webcam, while working as a technician for a local computer repair company, Goodrich said.

"Once he had access, he would take photographs of the users, usually women. Often, the female victims were undressed or changing clothes," Goodrich said.

Harwell then allegedly stored the photos on a remote server and eventually downloaded them to his own computer.

Police say they began investigating Harwell after a Fullerton resident contacted authorities over a suspicious message on his daughter's computer.

The message mimicked a system error advising her of a problem with an "internal sensor" and advised: "If unsure what to do, try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor."

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[meesterperfect]

Awesome.

 

[Ace Bandage]

Evidently he targeted fucking stupid people. Anybody who believes that putting your computer next to hot steam for a few minutes will fix it deserves to be drop kicked in the face.

 

[RichardNailder]

Fucking idiot.............























everyone that know these sensors can only repair themselves when the laptop is put with back of it's screen against the mirror.......

 

[Hot Mega]

Would be nice if local and fed authorities treat these things for what they are.....

I don't see why the goof sitting behind a keyboard and monitor isn't culpable for the same crimes a peeper, burglar, thief, etc. would/should be charged with.

I'm sure some enterprising politician will push for this soon.

The only way I see some of these 'asshats' getting the message about what they believe are pranks is to start sending there asses up for hard time and pegging them in many cases as sex offenders for life (or hack saw their fingers and toes off then cauterize their nubs with blow torches).