False Internet arrests bode poorly for Net police

[Taro Toporific]

False arrests on cyber-attacks trigger alarm / Investigation authorities urged to improve skills to tackle computer hijackers committing online crimes
Yomiuri Shimbun | Oct. 9, 2012
Takayuki Sugiura, chief executive officer of network security company NetAgent Co., had often worried some computer users in Japan were being wrongly accused of committing crimes online. His fears have been realized.
"There have always been indications that some people may have been falsely accused. I feel the issue has finally come into the spotlight," Sugiura said.
The computers of two men in Osaka and Mie prefectures who were arrested in separate cases on suspicion of posting mass-murder and bomb threats online are believed to have been infected with a virus that enables a third party to remotely operate the infected computer.
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