{"id":26045,"date":"2011-06-09T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=26045"},"modified":"2011-06-09T08:18:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:18:19","slug":"computer-tech-fiend-nabbed-for-installing-peeping-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/26045-computer-tech-fiend-nabbed-for-installing-peeping-software.html","title":{"rendered":"Computer tech fiend nabbed for installing peeping software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a Southern California computer repairman installed spyware on laptops that enabled him to snap and download photographs of women showering and undressing in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Fullerton police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich says 20-year-old Trevor Harwell installed software that took control of computer webcams and sent error messages telling users to &#8220;try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Goodrich says some victims took their laptops into the bathroom with them as they showered.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives seized hundreds of thousands of still images and videos from Harwell&#8217;s computer, including many of women undressing or changing clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Police began investigating when a Fullerton resident complained about suspicious messages appearing on his daughter&#8217;s computer. Goodrich says Harwell was taken into custody on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer technician has been arrested for installing peeping software on client&#8217;s laptops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":26047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,845,847],"class_list":["post-26045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-computer-technician","tag-peeping-tom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26049,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26045\/revisions\/26049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}