Canadian police have arrested a man accused of planting key-logging malware on hundreds of computers across the world. Joseph Mercier, 24, of Laval, Quebec, allegedly hacked school board systems in Canada as well as computer networks in the US, France, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. Mercier – who was in charge of his …

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Thursday 21st July 2011 09:22 GMT Anonymous Coward

Clarifications for the Canadian judge

A key-logger is not an important lumberjack. So don't take his word if he says he's ok because he hacks all day, he's not talking about chopping trees.

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Thursday 21st July 2011 12:26 GMT Anonymous Coward

But no mention of Anonymous?

I thought everyone was Anon or in it for the Lulz who gets caught doing anything other than word processing on a computer?

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Thursday 21st July 2011 15:16 GMT kain preacher

Oh My

Some one has been a naughty boy. With any luck he can convince America or France to ship him back home once they are done with him and not to Russia or UAE. I wounder what the punishment in UAE for hacking is . One hack or two, done with a hack saw of course.

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Thursday 21st July 2011 15:25 GMT Dennis Wilson

Power

I'm still getting over the shock that Canada has discovered electricity, and now i find out they have a computer

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1. Thursday 21st July 2011 21:52 GMT deegee
  
  hmmm
  
  Well... what did you think we use to power our igloos?
  
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Friday 22nd July 2011 08:46 GMT Anonymous Coward

So how did they catch him?

So how did they catch him?

How did they come to know it was him?

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Friday 22nd July 2011 11:14 GMT Anonymous Coward

Re: So how did they catch him?

Followed the extension cord into his igloo, of course.

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