[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.

[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?

[pardon_me]

Cheaper and quicker to just disappear us

[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?