Article - News - Ex-judge Kline gets prison

[jason]

After student watched the famous Catsy video on hacking, this comes up: Article - News - Ex-judge Kline gets prison:
“Kline admitted he stored more than 100 sexually explicit photos of under-age boys on his computer and on several disks found at his Irvine home in November 2001. Police caught onto Kline after a Canadian computer whiz hacked into the judge’s Irvine home computer and discovered sexually explicit images of young boys and a diary that revealed Kline’s fantasies involving young boys. A subsequent search of his court computer revealed more images and more Web sites.”

[via Slashdot | Ex-judge Gets 27 Months on Evidence From Hacked PC]

Though I’m pleased with the result, I find it a problem that you can break into someone’s space, and then use what you find in your crime to convict you.