[eivarv]

Yes – and not only for government and organizations:

> In 1999, NetBus was used to plant child pornography on the work computer of a law scholar at Lund University. The 3,500 images were discovered by system administrators, and the law scholar was assumed to have downloaded them knowingly. He lost his research position at the faculty, and following the publication of his name fled the country and had to seek professional medical care to cope with the stress. He was acquitted from criminal charges in late 2004, as a court found that NetBus had been used to control his computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBus

[aliqot]

If you spelled netbus backwards you get subten, which is where the other tool subseven got its name.

[bjornsing]

Interesting. I was a student at Lund University in 1999. I vaguely remember hearing about a law professor getting caught with child pornography, but the exoneration never reached me.

[mikercampbell]

This is where I feel like reporting goes terribly wrong. Failure to correct stories like this just cements the wrong idea. It's not slander, but it's like slander by omission.

It's as if bad news and boogie monsters sell better than "we reported incorrectly" I know, but still.

[rlt]

In this age of search engines and social media “amplification” a correction wouldn’t even be sufficient. The original story will always be more salacious than the correction, thus more widely shared and more likely to appear in search results (unless Google etc somehow weight the correction higher, I have no idea if they do)

[yieldcrv]

It could happen to you.

[jliptzin]

Even a law professor couldn't escape being framed, what does that mean for the rest of us?

[cylon13]

Why would you expect a law professor to be an expert in avoiding being framed?

[jliptzin]

They might have the resources (experience, connections, money) to mount a successful defense that the average person wouldn't have access to?

[rovr138]

So, not avoid being framed, but defending against it successfully, which they did.

[jliptzin]

Not before losing his career and having to flee his country, probably because his reputation was dragged through the mud. News of the acquittal doesn't travel nearly as far as the initial arrest - see sibling comment below.

[pardon_me]

Cheaper and quicker to just disappear us

[jliptzin]

Is it? If someone turns up dead or goes missing, everyone wonder’s what happened and who did it. Frame someone for CP, no one’s thinking of hackers.

[derbOac]

What was the motive for framing the scholar? I read through some of the material and didn't see an explanation of that part.

[quickthrower2]

Were the planters were caught for their various crimes?