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Archive for April, 2007
Frank Miller Stoic Against Criticism
Apr 30th
If it were anyone other than Frank Miller, Hollywood would bounce him out of their ranks for daring to criticize Islam. But this guy is Hollywood’s latest Golden Goose, so for now, his attitude, though politically incorrect (but accurate), will be tolerated.
In a recent interview with the LA Times, here:
MUCH has been made of Miller’s politics in the wake of “300.” The deliriously violent and stylized sword film is based on a Spartan battle in 480 B.C., and although Miller wrote and drew the story for Dark Horse comics a decade ago, in film form it was received by many as a grotesque parody of the ancient Persians and a fetish piece for a war on Islam. Miller scoffs at those notions. “I think it’s ridiculous that we set aside certain groups and say that we can’t risk offending their ancestors. Please. I’d like to say, as an American, I was deeply offended by ‘The Last of the Mohicans.’ ”
Still, Miller gets stirred up about any criticism of the war in Iraq or the hunt for terrorists, which he views as the front in a war between the civilized Western world and bloodthirsty Islamic fundamentalists.
“What people are not dealing with is the fact that we’re going up against a culture that finds it acceptable to do things that the rest of the world left behind with the barbarians in the 6th century,” Miller said. “I’m a little tired of people worrying about being polite. We are fighting in the face of fascists.”
“These terrorists are worse than any villain I can come up with, and I think it’s ridiculous that people in entertainment are not showing what we are up against here…. This is pure propaganda, a throwback, there’s no bones about it.”
Miller also said he relishes a backlash. “I’m ready,” he said, “for my fatwa.”
Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the tip.
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Loading ...Google Adwords and Passive Phishing
Apr 30th
The game of harvesting bank accounts and online identities continues to develop, and new methods are now appearing on the horizon. Typically, phishers and malware distributors have relied heavily on spamming email lists with links to their phishing sites or websites that install malware via drive-by-download. But there is a problem with this method- First, you advertise your evil intentions to the world with a broadcast email, and the good guys, like the Antiphishing Working Group, will call the webhosting companies and get the phishing webserver or malware distro server yanked off of the internet. Nowadays a phishing site has an average of an 8 hour shelflife thanks to the great work of antiphishing teams in the cyber community.
From the phisher’s point of view, he paid for a domain registration, shared space on a webserver, and probably a list of valid email addresses so he could send his spam. While his phishing site is online, he may be able to harvest a dozen good working accounts or ID’s, and these will only work for a single targeted financial institution.
But now there is passive phishing, where no initial email is sent. And it may take weeks or even months before a security professional notices the site. Passive Phishing’s newest partner is Google and their adwords program. Here’s how it works, from NewsFactor Network here:
Google has removed paid advertisements that link to 20 search terms online criminals hijacked to steal the personal identities of people searching the Internet.
Exploit Prevention Labs discovered the scheme on April 10 when a user of the company’s link-scanning software ran a Google search on the phrase “how to start a business.” The top-ranked sponsored search listing appeared to be from AllBusiness.com, a legitimate business, yet the hyperlink actually led to a site that attempted to install a password-stealing keylogger on the user’s PC.“The post-logger is specifically targeting about 100 banks from around the world, by injecting extra HTML into those banks’ response pages, to try to coax extra information out of the victim,” Roger Thompson, CTO for Exploit Prevention Labs, wrote in his blog. Thompson added that this “equal-opportunity logger” happily logs all user IDs and passwords for any Web page.
Michael Sutton said an alternate and likely more effective approach involves leveraging a Web site that already receives high volumes of traffic. By using Google AdWords to generate traffic, he explained, the attackers leveraged one of the most powerful traffic generators on the Internet.
The moral of the Google AdWords hack story: “Attackers are realizing that in business, you need to spend money to make money,” Sutton concluded. “Assuming that a paid service will deter criminals is simply not enough.”
In this type of attack, the phisher only pays for his domain registration and his shared hosting. And he pays out of pocket, or more likely, uses stolen credentials, to pay for Google’s Adwords. And the server stays up much longer, capable of harvesting identities and account information for hundreds of online banks, not just a single targeted bank.
Google has been under quite a bit of criticism in the past for click fraud and their inability to effectively combat it. Now it comes out that you may not be able to trust the advertisers on popular webpages? Google needs to authenticate their ad sponsors and certify that they are malware-free. Want to see the exploit work? Click here for a video by Exploit Prevention Labs.
PS: My own ad banners are exploit-free, so feel free to click away.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Big Ass Bees and Big Ass Flowers
Apr 29th
I have a slight problem with carpenter bees. Carpenter bees are the big bumbly bees that appear this time of year to hover menacingly around your garden. They don’t sting, and they also burrow into unpainted wood, and if this wood is on your house, it becomes quite a hassle to get rid of them. I have such a burrow on the back side of one of the eaves next to my front door.
I thought I had destroyed the burrow at the beginning of fall last year, but those bastards came back. Right now I deal with these bees with a tennis racket. They hover right at eye level and a good forehand smash can send one to the end of my driveway- stunned and spinning around like Curly of the three stooges until I get there to squish him. I must have killed a dozen of these critters this week that way.
But what do big ass bees like, anyways? How about big ass flowers? Our peonies have bloomed. These flowers are huge and weigh almost a pound each and the big bees are fighting over the nectar rights.
Our cat also enjoys helping me to exterminate these giant bloated buzzers.
Mr. Squirrel is neither happy about the bees, nor the fact that the cat is prowling the front yard.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Music Review: Magnolia Blue
Apr 29th
Few things are more fun in life that a free barbecue and free beer. On Saturday I was lucky enough to be invited by my father-in-law to join him at a neighbor’s house for a block party. So in addition to great pulled pork, awesome baked beans and excellent beer from an iced keg, we were treated to a free concert by local Jam Blues Band, Magnolia Blue.
Magnolia Blue is a cover band, and they mostly play classic rock and jam band anthems. Their set list consists of the Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton and Van Morrison. Neil Holcomb plays guitar and provides most of the vocals, and he has a raspier voice to lend a great bluesy feeling to most of the songs. Awesome percussion is provided by Chris Murray, and some of the liveliest keyboards were performed by Dean Shires.
One of the best performers in the band is Chris Givens on vocals and the Saxophone. He has a higher voice than Neil and can really wail on his sax. Magnolia Blue plays at several venues in the Fairfax and Northern Virginia region, and if you get a chance to attend one of their concerts, you should really check them out. But you have to bring your own barbecue and beer.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...400 Years Ago- Our Forefathers
Apr 27th
Our nation and its people first touched the soil of North America on April 29th, 1607. After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in crowded, startlingly small ships, the first Americans came ashore in what is now Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
There they said a prayer of thanksgiving and formed the first governing body in the New World.
Thanks to the Ward View, who was on hand to capture photos of the re-enactment, we can see what the event may have looked like back then. Check out the rest of the shots at his site.
The new Colonists began to explore immediately and fell in love with what they found in Virginia, including the peninsula that was my own home growing up. According to the Cape Henry memorial, the explorers excitedly wrote:
“We past through excellent ground full of Flowers of divers kinds and colors, and as goodly trees as I have seene, as Cedar, Cipresse, and other kinds… fine and beautiful Strawberries, four time bigger and better than ours in England.”
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...OLPC Laptop Costs Rise to $175
Apr 27th
The world’s crappiest laptops, designed to punish the already poverty-stricken children of the world, will now rise past the $150 mark reported here, all the way up to $175.
And it seems that if the governments of these poor countries do not pony up over half a billion dollars to get the first 3 Million of these beasts manufactured, the whole project may collapse. Somehow, Citibank has been swindled into fronting the money for these impoverished countries to buy these laptops, on the hopes that Citibank gets paid back some day.
From the AP here:
The founder of the ambitious “$100 laptop” project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface.
Nicholas Negroponte, head of the One Laptop Per Child project, updated analysts and journalists on where the effort stands, saying “we are perhaps at the most critical stage of OLPC’s life.”
That’s partly because at least seven nations have expressed interest in being in the initial wave to buy the little green-and-white “XO” computers — Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand, Nigeria and Libya — but it remains unclear which ones will be first to pony up the cash. The project needs orders for 3 million machines so its manufacturing and distribution effort can get rolling. (That’s 525,000,000 Dollars!)
The ever-optimistic Negroponte didn’t sound worried, however: He expects mass production to begin by October, and he said many other countries, including Peru and Russia, have been inquiring about taking part.
Even so, the machine — which boasts extremely low electricity consumption, a pulley for hand-generated power, built-in wireless networking and a screen with indoor and outdoor reading modes — now costs $175. The One Laptop project takes an additional $1 to fund its distribution efforts.
XO’s software is highly original, in hopes of making the computer useful as a collaborative tool and intuitive for children who have never before encountered a computer. There are no windows or folders, but rather an interface heavily reliant on pictographic icons.
What happened to Google funding this project? Or was that just the development? And notice how the story’s author uses words like “optimistic” and describes the software as “highly original?” I think its code for “doomed project” and “unusable software.”
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...AOL Busts Staten Island Hacker
Apr 27th
An idiot teenager tried to hack into AOL because the company suspended his account. Mike Nieves foolishly tried to penetrate the security of AOL without realizing that the network is one of the best protected in the world. And then he posted photographic evidence of his crimes on Flickr. And as a former account holder, AOL was able to tell the cops exactly where he lived.
From Infoworld here:
A New York teenager broke into AOL networks and databases containing customer information and infected servers with a malicious program to transfer confidential data to his computer.
17-year old Mike Nieves committed offenses like computer tampering, computer trespass, and criminal possession of computer material.
Among his alleged exploits:
- Accessing systems containing customer billing records, addresses, and credit card information
- Infecting machines at an AOL customer support call center in New Delhi, India, with a program to funnel information back to his PC
- Logging in without permission into 49 AIM instant message accounts of AOL customer support employees
- Attempting to break into an AOL customer support system containing sensitive customer information
- Engaging in a phishing attack against AOL staffers through which he gained access to more than 60 accounts from AOL employees and subcontractors
Nieves faces four felony charges and one misdemeanor charge. He was arraigned on Monday and remains detained, a DA’s office spokesman said.
The alleged acts cost AOL more than $500,000.
Nieves admitted to investigators that he committed the acts because AOL took away his accounts. He also admitted to posting photos of his exploits in a photo Web site.
Authorities arrested Nieves after AOL provided them with information from an internal investigation into the alleged acts. AIM subscriber information and IP address data involved in the acts led AOL to Nieves, whose address and phone number AOL had on file.
Nieves is part of a “loosely coupled” group of hackers who have targeted AOL and other companies in recent years, but that Nieves focused specifically on hacking into AOL.
Its really quite stupid to do half-a-million dollar’s worth of damage to a network and then leave an easy-to-follow digital trail of bedcrumbs back to your home. So Mike Nieves, get yourself a soap-on-a-rope. Those big guys in prison will really like your soft hacker’s body.
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(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 6) Loading ...Schneier Questions Existence of Security Industry
Apr 26th
Bruce Schneier is an egotistical proto-liberal propeller-head who had to sell his badly leveraged security company Counterpane to British Telecom because no American company wanted to buy it.
Now he stands up at a security conference in London and declares that the very existence of a security industry (like the ones who passed up buying Counterpane) is what enables software makers to ship insecure software.
From Cnet here:
Schneier questions need for security industry
Outspoken author and security guru Bruce Schneier has questioned the very existence of the security industry, suggesting it merely indicates the willingness of other technology companies to ship insecure software and hardware.
Speaking this week at Infosecurity Europe 2007, a leading trade show for the security industry, Schneier said, “the fact this show even exists is a problem. You should not have to come to this show ever.”
“We shouldn’t have to come and find a company to secure our e-mail. E-mail should already be secure. We shouldn’t have to buy from somebody to secure our network or servers. Our networks and servers should already be secure.”
“Security is a small but important piece of the bigger picture,” Schneier said. He added that consumers shouldn’t accept any product that is inherently insecure.
However, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, suggested Schneier’s dream may be a long way from reality. “Why didn’t everybody think about this sooner?” said Cluley. “It would be great.”
“It would be great if robberies didn’t happen and if road accidents didn’t happen and if I didn’t stub my toe,” he added. “But what you have to realize is that software developers are human and humans make mistakes.
Schneier then wished out loud for a magical unicorn to come on stage and take him away to the land of the horribly balding gnomes, where he is considered a demi-god because his scruffy back hair makes a nice pony tail. When the unicorn didn’t appear, he walked off stage to the sound of crickets.
I would laugh if BT started questioning the need for a CTO.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...MySpace Kid Complains About Going To Work
Apr 26th
The Internet’s self-proclaimed “Youngest Blogger,” Seth Hicks, aged 8, complained on his blog at www.myspace.com/mommydontknow that he is very upset about having to be dragged into work with his mother for “Bring Your Child to Work Day.”
“Being forced to go to school every day is bad already. Now I have to go to Mommy’s job. Its so Boring! She just surfs the Internet,” Seth noted on his blog yesterday in reference to the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® program, scheduled for Thursday. The program was originally created by the Ms. Foundation for Women to provide opportunities for children to express their hopes and expectations of work life in their future.
Seth went on to detail how he was going to make sure that his mother did not repeat this custom next year by writing: “Im going to run and scream in the hallways. If there are other kids there, I will pull their hair and pinch them. I will ask strangers to take me to the bathroom every five minutes, and then accuse them of trying to watch me pee. At 2 o’clock sharp, I plan on spilling my Hi-C juicebox on the floor of the break room and then not clean it up.”
Seth went on to explain that his plan was risky, but hopes it is worth it. “I might lose my gameboy for a month as punishment. But Mommy needs to learn not to take me to work and then not even pay me. I get to be a kid for just a few more years, and those days won’t be ruined at some crummy office building.”
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Open Source Tools: CentralOps
Apr 26th
CentralOps.Net is a free utility website from Hexillion and is one of those all-in-one gadget sites that no infosec person should be without.
From a single location, outside of your own network, you can perform a whois query, a DNS lookup, a traceroute, a light service scan, and even grab the plain text of a website with an http get request.
The site also features a Browser Mirror which allows you to see what your web client may look like to a potentially malicious web server. This includes your version of Java, whether or not you allow scripting, and which quicktime version or other plugins are accessible.
There is even an applet that allows you to see if domain names are available. Go to CentralOps.Net and bookmark it. Its one of the handiest free webtools ever.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Come Get Some
Apr 25th
Military Weapons Developers have some pretty cool jobs. Ionatron invented what it believes is to be a “lightning” raygun. It apparantly works by using a charged particle laser to create a virtual channel through which a large electrical charge can travel. Essentially, a directed energy weapon with lethal results. Cool.
From the Reg here:
The US Navy will put nearly $10m into development of “man-made lightning” blaster weapons.
In a release dated yesterday, Arizona-based company Ionatron announced that it had won a contract worth $9,839,094 to develop its Laser Induced Plasma Channel™ (LIPC) technology.
Ionatron describes LIPC as “man-made lightning”. It notes that electrical air-gap spark discharges are nothing new, but until now it has been very hard to make them travel any distance or point them at a target. But the firm’s engineers reckon they’ve potentially got the problem cracked, using precursor laser pulses to burn a conductive tunnel through the air down which an electrical charge can easily jump.
The technology could be applied in a number of ways, perhaps most obviously as an improvement on existing Taser cattle-prod dartguns.
But there’ll be no need for plods or soldiers of the future to give up on killing people altogether. “Lethal configurations are also available,” the company assures us.
You know what the defense against this is? A particle-charged field that negates the charge of the gun. Yeah, I’m talking force fields.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Unfiltered Camels Will Kill You
Apr 25th
Another stupid animal hoarder managed to kill herself with the wild animals she was collecting. Cathie Ake turned her expansive tract of land on the Florida Panhandle into a ridiculous assortment of pets and wild animals, some of which she carried with her on her job as a social worker. She claimed that carrying a lemur with her was “animal therapy” as if that would make kids feel better about living in a broken home.
As if having lemurs, pomeranians, midget horses, dwarf goats, saudi arabian foxes, wallabies and coatimundies weren’t enough to handle, Cathie really wanted a camel. Once she got her camel, she called the local TV news station to brag about what a good person she was for “rescuing” animals such as a camel.
Imagine the horror the News Reporter felt when the camel kicked Cathie Ake in the guts and then sat on her to squish her!
From the NewsHerald here:
Cathie Ake was still getting to know her pet camel when it killed her Sunday.
Driven by a passion for unusual pets, Ake had decided the desert mammal would make a nice addition to the family farm, a 15-acre menagerie in Wewahitchka filled with coatimundis, wallabies, lemurs and all sorts of other exotic creatures.
“She’d been wanting one for I don’t know how long,” said Donnie Ake, her husband. “And I finally gave in.”
So three weeks ago, the Akes bought Polo (the camel) at an auction in Central Florida. He was 4 years old, weighed nearly a ton and seemed a bit randy.
They put him in a pen — about 50 feet by 80 feet — and started spending time with him. Photos show the camel standing passively with his new owners, even passing out a few gentle smooches.
“He’s a love,” Cathie said at the time. “He’s just the biggest love.”
She and her husband started Mini-Akers Exotic Animals nearly 10 years ago, out of a love for animals and a need to share them with others.
“My wife did a lot of rescue,” Donnie said. “She wouldn’t let an animal suffer. We might not have food in the house, but she made sure they had something to eat.”
Polo’s arrival made news, first in the Port St. Joe paper, then with WJHG News Channel 7.
The station sent a reporter to the farm Sunday to interview Cathie and get footage of the camel. The reporter had finished the interview and was setting up her camera outside the pen when Cathie went inside to move Polo.
The camel kicked her, then sat down on her. The reporter dialed 9-1-1. She was dead.
So a loony animal lover has now become carbon neutral. Her husband is getting rid of the camel. Another animal hoarder story is here.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Real Life Crime Fighting Hottie
Apr 25th
And yeah, I think she should start wearing a spandex body suit. Miss America 2007 Lauren Nelson’s national platform was internet safety for children. And she is already doing quite a bit to make the world safer for kids. She teamed up with John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to collar a bunch of scumbags who troll the Internet trying to molest children.
From the AP here:
Miss America can add crime fighter to her resume. Lauren Nelson recently went undercover with police in New York for a sting targeting sexual predators.
Officers with Suffolk County’s computer crimes unit created an online profile of a 14-year-old girl that included photographs of Nelson as a teenager.
“I got to chat online with the predators and made phone calls, too,” Nelson said by phone from Atlantic City, N.J. “The Suffolk County Police Department was there the whole time.”
The operation was filmed for a segment of “America’s Most Wanted” that will air Saturday on Fox. Police spokesman Tim Motz said the operation was ongoing and declined to comment Tuesday evening.
At least four men were arrested and face charges, said Avery Mann, a spokesman for the show. Another six men agreed to meet Nelson, of Lawton, Okla., he said.
Nelson, 20, posed as a young teen online and went into chat rooms, where she said men would begin sending her instant messages asking her how old she was and where she lived.
“I would say I’m a 14-year-old female from Long Island. Sometimes they would say, ‘You’re too young, sorry,’ which is exactly what needs to happen, but some would continue chatting. “It would only take a matter of time before it got pretty explicit.”
“The story was that they knew I was 14, and I told them I was cutting school to meet with them,” Nelson said. “I stood outside on the porch, and I would say, ‘Hi’ to them and wave them inside.”
Once she entered the home with the suspect, Nelson said, she left the room, and police and “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh confronted the suspect.
Nelson, whose platform issue is Internet safety for children, said she was eager to participate.
“As many as we caught on that day, there are a lot more out there,” she said. “It’s nice to know that they were chatting with police officers and me rather than a 14- or 15-year-old girl.”
John Walsh lost his own son, most likely to a sex predator. I want to see him confront scumbags like this on AMW.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Panda Demands an Abortion
Apr 24th
Shocking news footage of a panda at the National Zoo in Washington DC, communicating through an interpreter, demanding an abortion. It seems that she hates her own existence in the walled enclosure and resents that she has had a pregnancy forced upon her. Click the image below to see this shocking news report.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Identity Theft Task Force
Apr 24th
A task force comprised of the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission made recommendations to Congress yesterday to stiffen the penalties for ID thieves, spyware users and to stop using social security numbers when they aren’t necessary.
From Reuters here:
A task force created to curb identity theft urged federal agencies on Monday to help protect consumers by ceasing unnecessary use of Social Security numbers.
The plan also recommended that Congress toughen and expand existing laws to make some identity thieves face a mandatory two-year sentence.The new plan called for measures requiring the private sector to safeguard personal data and notify consumers when a breach occurs and for creating a national identity theft law enforcement center for coordinating police investigations.
Also it recommended legislative changes to help federal prosecutors charge those who use spyware, which can harvest personal data from a user’s computer.
I don’t know if a national ID Theft Police Department is an answer here, but it may help clear up lots of confusion that victims encounter when they find they have had their identities stolen. One big piece of the frustration deals with the jurisdiction of the crime. Some states say that the jurisdiction belongs to where the victim resides. Others say it belongs to where the criminal resides, which is a real pain when it involves interstate crime.
Another point of confusion is the reluctance of credit card companies to share information about credit applications with law enforcement. This needs to change, and it might if there is a centralized unit to deal with this problem.
It still seems like an awful lot of resources and money to throw at a crime problem that our society is only willing to punish offenders for two years.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Hokie Killer was a Cyber Stalker?
Apr 24th
That seems to be the case. Search warrants issued in the case show that there were extensive communications directed toward Emily Hilscher, Cho’s first victim.
From Fox news here:
Search warrants show that police are trying to determine whether Cho had any relationship or communication with his first victim, Emily Jane Hilscher, a 19-year-old freshman from Woodville, Va.
Police seized not only Cho’s cell-phone records, but also a CD containing text for e-mail messages for “EPIXIE,” a CD containing e-mail activity for logs tracking “SC2,” and a CD containing SC2 and EPIXIE file boxes, among other things.
Hilscher’s Virginia Tech e-mail address was epixie@vt.edu. Cho’s campus e-mail address was sc2@vt.edu.
That’s a lot of CD’s worth of messages. I googled “epixie” to see if that was a handle Hilscher would have used at other message boards, but not much turned up.
My prediction is that this communication will be mostly one way- toward Hilscher. She may have tried to be nice to him once but that just fed his internal creep-monster. Cho probably tried to send her videos, long rambling email manifestos and lots of text messages.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Melanie McGuire Guilty of Chopping Hubby
Apr 24th
Melanie McGuire was found guilty for murdering her husband and stuffing his dismembered body in suitcases, which she threw into the Chesapeake Bay. Instead of having the chance to run off with her boss to a happy life, she will run off to a prison to wear an orange jumpsuit.
From the AP here:
A jury convicted a nurse Monday of killing her husband, hacking up his body and stuffing the parts into three suitcases she tossed into Chesapeake Bay.
Melanie McGuire, who sobbed as she heard the verdict, was convicted of murder, desecration of a corpse, perjury and a weapons offense.During the six-week trial, prosecutors said McGuire, 34, organized William McGuire’s 2004 murder using her expertise as a nurse so she could begin a new life with her lover, her boss at a fertility clinic.
The jury was told that two days before her husband was last seen alive, McGuire bought a gun and bullets that matched those found in her husband’s body.
The body parts of William McGuire, 39, a computer programmer, were found in matching Kenneth Cole luggage that washed ashore in May 2004 near Norfolk, Va., nearly 300 miles from the couple’s Woodbridge, N.J., apartment.
Prosecutors also highlighted Internet searches made from the couple’s apartment on topics such as “undetectable poisons” and “ways to kill people.”
Google searches will nab you every time.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Hokie Killer Died a Virgin?
Apr 23rd
I had written earlier that Seung Cho, the Hokie Killer was a pathetic loser that could not get a woman if he was the last man on campus. It turns out he tried to hire what he thought was a prostitute in the last weeks before his psychotic rampage, but even failed to woo a paid escort. She pushed him away because to even a whore, Cho was “creepy” and a “dork.”
From WSLS here:
Chastity Frye says she spent an hour, all alone, with Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui last month. Frye works for an escort service. She says, Cho hired her, and the two met at a Valley View motel.
Frye said “He was so quiet, I really couldn’t get much from him, he was so distant, he really didn’t talk a lot. It seemed like he wasn’t all there.”
She says “I danced for a little while and I thought we were done because he got up and went to the restroom and began washing. And I said, ‘well, do you want me to go? I’m going to go ahead and go’. And he’s like, ‘I paid for the full hour, you’ve only been here for 15 minutes,’ and then he came back in the room. And I started dancing and that’s when he you know, touched me and tried to get on me and that’s when I pushed him away.”
FBI agents questioned her this weekend. Frye says they tracked her down through Cho’s credit card receipt. They wanted to know 3 words that described him,” Frye said. What 3 words did Frye use? “I used dorky, was one of them, maybe timid and pushy, there at the end he was a little pushy.” I was thinking, he was creeping me out, I was thinking about getting out of there.”
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Lorelei Corpuz Has Some Charges Dropped
Apr 23rd
I previously wrote about Lorelei Corpuz here. She is the 30-year-old woman who conned her way into a family by posing as a teenage boy just so she could molest an underage girl.
She has had some charges dropped already at a plea hearing, where she pleaded not guilty to the remaining charge of third degree child molestation. Two other counts of third degree rape were dropped. She is staying in jail until her trial on June 1.
From the HeraldNet here:
An Everett woman who allegedly lived as a teenage boy and molested an underage girl pleaded not guilty Friday. Lorelei J. Corpuz, 30, entered the plea during a brief afternoon hearing in Snohomish County Superior Court.
A few hours earlier, prosecutors charged Corpuz with one count of third-degree child molestation, a felony. In Corpuz posed as the boyfriend of a teenage Everett girl and adopted the identity Mark Villanueva, 17.
Corpuz met the girl in September 2005 at an area mall and lived with the teen’s family off and on through April.
The alleged illegal sexual contact came to light after a traffic stop in Everett led to Corpuz’s arrest on a warrant. The Everett girl, who is 16 (not 14, as originally reported by police), was in the car. The girl’s parents, immigrants from Vietnam who speak little English, have said they had no idea the person they knew as “Mark” was actually a 30-year-old woman.
Corpuz denied improper sex. The girl told police there was sexual touching that started when she was 15.
In court Friday, Corpuz identified herself by her given name. She did not contest the $150,000 bail that was previously set in her case. She remained behind bars at the county jail in Everett.
Corpuz is being investigated for numerous thefts and frauds in Snohomish County, as well as for another relationship involving a young girl elsewhere. Kitsap County officials have previously acknowledged they’ve opened an investigation there in which Corpuz, again posing as a male, was charged with fourth-degree domestic assault after a 16-year-old girl told police her boyfriend had bit and punched her.
“The defendant had assumed a fictitious identity of a 17-year- old, even opening a bank account under a fictitious name, and writing bad checks on that account,” Roe said in court documents. “The financial crimes are being investigated separately, and charges for those may follow.”
It doesn’t look like this predator will really spend much hard time behind bars, and its too bad. In fact, it is likely that she will do more time for the bad checks than for duping a family and molesting two kids.
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Apr 23rd
For a skinny chick with a huge skull, you would think that some pretty good ideas would rattle around that noggin. Not so if you are Sheryl Crow. She crossed the country in a bio-diesel bus thinking and thinking of a good idea to help save the world from “global warming.” I guess she did a lot of this contemplation in the stinky potty at the back of the bus. Her big idea? Use just one square of toilet paper.
From the Register here:
Sheryl Crow – who’s just completed a US “Stop Global Warming College Tour” with “environmental activist” Laurie David – has formulated a cunning plan to save the planet: use less toilet paper and dispense with the services of paper napkins.
Her illuminating blog reveals she “spent the better part of this tour trying to come up with easy ways for us all to become a part of the solution to global warming”.
And here’s the upshot of that contemplation: “I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required.”
Furthermore, Crow also fancies the idea of “not using paper napkins, which happen to be made from virgin wood and represent the height of wastefullness”.
Moron doesn’t know that paper is renewable. Don’t shake this woman’s hand. It will be sticky and smell like ass crack. And don’t sit in the first three rows of one of her concerts- When she strums her guitar, she is actually raining E-Coli speckled flakes of poo on the crowd. And if you see Sheryl come down with a sudden case of Pink Eye, you will know that she is following her own advice.
You know, I do lots of thinking in the bathroom too. I’m thinking I won’t be buying any records from crazy vegan big-headed bitches any time soon.
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