Teacher Faces Jail Time For Porn Pop-ups

Who is responsible for keeping the computers at school clean and child-safe? A Connecticut court is siding with the school system in the case of substitute teacher Julie Amero, who has been convicted for four counts of “risking injury to a child.” Amero now faces up to 40 years of jail time for pornographic pop-ups that appeared on a computer she was using in a classroom—pop-ups that she and her lawyers argue were a result of spy and adware on the computer, out-of-date virus software, and an expired firewall license.

Forty years of jail time? That’s one insane judgement. Amero plans to appeal the case, but has a sentencing the beginning of March. As mentioned in the article, the school board seems to be swaying away from the real problem at hand… lack of firewalls and security software. Computers armed with Windows 98 and IE5 doesn’t help either.

Source: Ars Technica