Politech: FC: Internet Explorer's "autocomplete" helps convict killer

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Or aid attorneys in countless divorce proceedings, no doubt. --Declan]

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From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: How auto-complete in Internet Explorer help convict a mass murderer
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:19:41 -0400

FYI:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/166/nation/Study_finds_Web_of_deceit_on_mental_tests+.shtml

Massachusetts residents got a glimpse of malingering in the April murder
trial of Michael McDermott, who was convicted of shooting to death seven
co-workers at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield. Although McDermott
claimed that he believed he had traveled through time to kill seven
Nazis, prosecutors countered - apparently successfully - that McDermott
was faking illness, because computer records showed he had performed a
Web search for the phrase ''faking mental illness.''




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