A top cybersecurity official for the Israeli government was arrested in Nevada during an undercover operation targeting child sex predators. Tom Alexandrovich (38) was apprehended and faced felony charges of "Luring a Child with Computer for Sex Act." Tom Alexandrovich is the Executive Director of the Israel Cyber Directorate, a government agency that operates under the office of PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Alexandrovich was in Las Vegas to attend this year's "Black Hat Briefings," an annual gathering of cybersecurity professionals. The pedophile posted a photo of himself at the conference on LinkedIn before the account was deleted. Netanyahu's office issued a statement and denied that the employee in question was arrested at all: "A state employee who traveled to the US for professional matters was questioned by American authorities during his stay. The employee, who does not hold a diplomatic visa, was not arrested and returned to Israel as scheduled."
A human-rights court upheld an Austrian woman's conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad.
On Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld [a] 2011 conviction for "disparagement of religious precepts," a crime in Austria. The facts of what E.S. did are not in dispute.
She held "seminars" in which she presented her view that Muhammad was indeed a child molester.
[...] Muhammad's third wife, Aisha, was 6 at the time of their marriage and 9 at its consummation. Muhammad was in his early 50s. The Austrian woman repeated these claims, and the Austrian court ruled that she had to pay 480 euros or spend 60 days in the slammer.
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