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
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 4:26 PMThis should totally be the theme of the next Mac & PC ad.
Phil
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 4:58 PMWhy 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.
Callum Campbell
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 11:45 PM+1. Macs are not supposed to need fixing!
GGP
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 5:03 PMSo I guess he won’t go back there to get his Apple fixed next time, they just lost a customer!
Thomas Hambleton
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 5:06 PMApple Macintosh, the choice of evil perverts world wide!
Dave
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 6:02 PMI think the defence will be arguing that the apple genius tampered with the computer.
NuStar
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 12:09 AMway out of order posting names and photos dudes
KK
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 11:40 AMEveryone 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.
justin
Monday, August 31, 2009 at 3:21 PMwell, 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