FBI planted spyware on teen’s PC
The FBI planted spyware on the computer used by a Washington state teenager to finger him as the person behind a rash of bomb threats e-mailed to his high school, court documents revealed this week. The 15-year-old, a former student at Timberline High School in Lacey, Wash., pleaded guilty Monday to making the bomb threats, as well as to identity theft charges, according to The Olympian. He was sentenced to 90 days in juvenile detention and must pay the school district $8,852 to cover expenses. The first e-mailed bomb threat was sent June 4. In several of the messages, the student taunted school authorities and police for their inability to trace the e-mails to him. “Seeing as how you’re too stupid to trace the e-mail back lets [sic] get serious,” an e-mail on June 5 said, according to an unsealed search warrant application filed with a Seattle federal court in mid-June. “Stop pretending to be ‘tracing it’ because I already told you it’s coming from Italy. That is where trace will stop, so just stop trying.”