Tuesday, August 30, 2005

A great program for crazy people

So she finally dumped you and is now living her own life, free of you for good. But you can't have that, can you? You have to know what she's doing, who she's talking to and where she goes at night. But who has time to stalk these days?

Creepy ex-boyfriend, meet Loverspy. Created by Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara, the handy program lets you remotely track and control her every online move. That is, it used to, before Perez-Melara was indicted for allegedly violating a handful of U.S. federal computer privacy laws. If convicted, he could be fined up to $8.75 million and spend 175 years in jail. So naturally, he's on the run.

Terrible as he might be for having offered Loverspy, Perez-Melara did pack a lot of value into his product. For just $89 -- the price of a black-market handgun -- you were able to monitor a chosen individual's e-mail, passwords, chat sessions, and Web site visits. Plus you could remotely control your victim's computer and even quietly turn on any connected Web cameras to get a sneaky-peek of them from afar. Compare that to the $200 you spend on a basic version of Microsoft Word and you start to wonder who's the real criminal. The answer, of course, is Perez-Melara. But it got you thinking, right?

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