The story of Lori Drew is so insane that one can almost consider it a joke – cutting a long story shoert, a 40yr old female set up a MySpace account pretending that she was a 16yr old boy. She then started to play around with a female teen…the final result was the tragic loss of life…what a whacky tale.

Unfortunately, the teen really killed herself – and the case is now in court. Mark Rasch from SecurityFOCUS takes a look at the legal situation and at the possible consequences of this trial. Read on for the full (and somewhat disturbing) scoop – it’s possible that anonymous protests like the ones held at Enturbulation.org may soon be forbidden…

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One Response to “Anti-social networking – or – killing folks via MySpace”

  1. You think a 40 year old would have better more productive things to do than to hang out at myspace. This is a very unusual story.

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