Posted on 09/27/2013 7:07:57 PM PDT by Utilizer
"CNN reports that Jared James Abrahams, a 19-year-old computer science student, has been arrested for allegedly hijacking the webcams of young women — among them reigning Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf — taking nude images, then blackmailing his victims to send him more explicit material or else be exposed.
Abrahams admitted he had 30 to 40 'slave computers' — or other people's electronic devices he controlled — and has had as many as 150 total. His arrest came six months after a teenager identified in court documents as C.W. alerted authorities. She has since publicly identified herself as Cassidy Wolf, the recently crowned Miss Teen USA. Wolf received messages featuring pictures of her at her Riverside County address and others apparently taken months earlier when she lived in Orange County, says the criminal complaint (PDF). The message explained 'what's going to happen' if Wolf didn't send pictures or videos or 'do what I tell you to do' in a five-minute Skype videoconference, according to the criminal complaint. 'Either you do one of the things listed below or I upload these pics and a lot more (I have a LOT more and those are better quality) on all your accounts for everybody to see and your dream of being a model will be transformed into a pornstar (sic),' wrote Abrahams.
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He claims he did it because he is 'autistic'.
Not buying it for a minnit, slobbo.
He may have Asperger’s syndrome, but he’s certainly not full-blown autistic.
I don’t think he’s going to do very well in prison, either.
I’m an Aspie myself, and I’m @#$! sick and tired of little oxygen thieves like him using it as an excuse for their little escapades. Makes it even harder for the rest of us.
this guy is just plain a little creepy jerk....hope that somebody's daddy or bro will take an interest....
Unless he had help. There's a chilling thought. He might be someone else's pelosi (fall-guy).
Wait a minute....So this is possible? Webcams can be hacked and you can take nude photos with them? Just out of curiosity where are the extremely detailed instructions on how to do this?
Obviously, TTIUWOP.
The sicko, on the other hand, will soon have his lineup photos being presented in all his slope-headed 'glory'.
The guy sounds like a real ass-burger to me. They should poke out one of his eyes and throw him in a cell with Bubba the Prison Monkey for a few weeks, pre-trial.
Apparently the NSA does this stuff everyday.
Yeah, webcams can be hacked, even if you have completely disabled them in your OS. Once a hacker has control of your machine, they can simply turn them back on.
However, no hacker can remotely remove a small piece of electrical tape over the lens :)
Balderdash. My webcams are Un-Hackable, and I defy anyone to try.
Unless you can magically grow an arm and a hand out of the computer and plug it in, and by the way also magically connect it to the internet at the same time.
The only time I plug in any type of camera is when I am offline and working on other projects, so hack away!
And where did I put that EGA card?
I have naked pictures of you. Do as I say, or I will post them to Fidonet.
*laugh* I defy anyone to identify Me from those sepia-tinged two images of Me undiapered and only six months old. Especially since the gunpowder residue from the flash attachment on the camera will immediately identify who they are if they try.
They might let you get away with it on Archienet, not Fidonet however.
“I have naked pictures of you. Do as I say, or I will post them to Fidonet.”
Posting nudes of me anywhere will probably result in EPA imposing excessive fines for felony level visual pollution.
;-)
“...where are the extremely detailed instructions on how to do this?”
Try filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA.
So... why does “Miss Teen USA” have a web cam, anyway?
Many teens these days do. They use them to video chat (Skype) back and forth. Twenty years ago they were on the phone constantly. In today’s day and age it’s vidchat and texting -even if they are sitting back to back in the same room. I can certainly attest to that last one as a personal observation.
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