Forget Megan’s Law, those Apple Geniuses are pretty darn good at catching paedophiles. An American man was arrested after an Apple Genius found pictures of naked 10- to 13-year-old girls in “explicit” poses on his G5 desktop’s hard drive.
Ah, the irony that Raymond Miller went into his local Stamford Town centre Apple Store because he was having issues with image files on his computer. The Genius found the suggestive images and called on one of the police officers stationed in the mall. Miller was arrested while he was waiting to get his computer back.
According to the Stamford Advocate, he was charged with one count of possession of child pornography, a class-B felony which is punishable by a minimum five-year prison sentence if convicted. No word if the Genius was able to fix his G5. [The Stamford Advocate via Tuaw]
Malkers
August 26, 2009 at 4:26 PM
This should totally be the theme of the next Mac & PC ad.
Report PermalinkPhil
August 26, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Why would the bloke have to take his MAC back to the shop for repair? I thought all apple products were perfect! He should have bought a PC.
Report PermalinkCallum Campbell
August 26, 2009 at 11:45 PM
+1. Macs are not supposed to need fixing!
Report PermalinkGGP
August 26, 2009 at 5:03 PM
So I guess he won’t go back there to get his Apple fixed next time, they just lost a customer!
Report PermalinkThomas Hambleton
August 26, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Apple Macintosh, the choice of evil perverts world wide!
Report PermalinkDave
August 26, 2009 at 6:02 PM
I think the defence will be arguing that the apple genius tampered with the computer.
Report PermalinkNuStar
August 27, 2009 at 12:09 AM
way out of order posting names and photos dudes
Report PermalinkKK
August 27, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Everyone should be entitled to the presumption of innocence. Publishing an accused person’s name and photo could subject them to illegal vigilante behaviour. If guilty, then yes by all means publish these details! Far far too many of these people have been proven innocent after they have had thier names published. For those interested take a look at the site Inquisition21 where it details a huge class action in the UK for many folks wrongfully accused of this crime when in fact they were victims of credit card fraud or other malicious activity.
Report Permalinkjustin
August 31, 2009 at 3:21 PM
well, i’m all for pedos being arrested. but unless there was a picture sitting there named something like kiddy pron or something equally obvious. why was this guy going through a customer’s private files? again, don’t get me wrong, i’m glad he got caught, but apple techs shouldn’t be allowed to just go through your stuff and look at all your photos
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