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Java & Mickey pushed by pedophile
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Sep 21 20:30:31 1999
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:49:35 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199909212249.AAA03116@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
Finally, some insight into Java's background. As we feared, it does
take a special personality to support Java.
Infoseek executive arrested on solicitation charges
By Bloomberg News
Special to CNET News.com
September 19, 1999, 11:15 p.m. PT
Update: Patrick Naughton, the Infoseek executive vice president in charge
of Walt Disney Company's Web sites, has been arrested and charged with
using the Internet to solicit sex with a minor.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Naughton, 34, was arrested Thursday
on the Santa Monica Pier in California, where he had been lured by
electronic messages from a male FBI agent posing as a 13-year-old girl.
A Disney spokeswoman declined to comment on the matter. An Infoseek
spokeswoman today confirmed Naughton's arrest and added he is "no longer
an employee of Infoseek."
"We are shocked and disturbed by the arrest," she said.
Until the arrest, Naughton had overall responsibility for the Go
Network, the Internet portal for Disney's online businesses. Earlier he
helped create the Internet programming language Java as an employee of
Sun Microsystems.
Burbank, California-based Disney said in July it will buy the remaining
stake of Sunnyvale, California-based Infoseek, the fourth-largest
Internet search service, that it doesn't already own.
Naughton did not enter a plea and was ordered to post a $100,000 bond at
a hearing in federal court Friday. His arraignment was set for October
12.
According to the Los Angeles Times the investigation began in March when
FBI special agent Bruce Applin visited an Internet chat room known as a
place where men solicit underage girls. In an affidavit, Applin said he
repeatedly identified himself as a 13-year-old girl in messages with
Naughton's "hotseattle" identity.
In subsequent communications, according to the FBI, Naughton directed
agents to a Web site that he said had a picture of his genitals, the
paper reported.
On Thursday night Naughton approached a female undercover sheriff's
deputy near a roller coaster on the pier and wearing a green backpack,
as had been agreed upon, the affidavit states. He was taken into custody
after asking the deputy to meet him on the beach, it said.
When agents seized his portable computer Thursday night, Naughton told
them that "there were sexually explicit images of children on the
laptop," according to the affidavit.
