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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 14:48:45 -0400 Message-Id: <9404181818.AA23764@mail.wm.edu> From: efn!ideath!uunet!mail.wm.edu!thardy (Trotter Hardy) Subject: Secret porn in .EXE files
An e-mail acquaintance of mine in the U.K., Phillip Boyd, has related to me that someone in England has been arrested for the distribution of pornographic materials. Apparently the "materials" are secreted within a DOS .exe file in such a way that the file can still run normally as a program, but those who know how, can decipher the pornographic contents.
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A research assistant at the University of Birmingham has just been arrested for distributing Child Pornography through the Internet: apparently wrapped up in innocuous .exe files which really work and do something else if you don't know what they are. The general view is that such distribution is pretty well unstoppable.
Apparently it was the FBI who found him out and reported to West Midlands Police here. He was a research assistant in the Department of Metallurgy. No further details, it will probably be months before he comes to trial.
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