Microsoft Sued Over 'Embarrassment'

by Jordan Yerman | March 5, 2007 at 02:00 pm

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The plaintiff would have been better served by not storing such, uh, sensitive material on his hard drive. He has no case, really; I'm surprised that the other companies mentioned in the article settled out of court in the first place.

A New England man has sued Microsoft over the "great embarrassment" he claims to have suffered after an unrelated incident placed the contents of his computer in the hands of the FBI--medical records, family photographs, sexually-explicit video, salacious Web browser history and all.

According to an InformationWeek report, Michael Alan Crooker, who is currently behind bars in Connecticut in connection with alleged gun crimes, sued the Windows maker in Massachusetts Superior Court last week. He is requesting $200,000 in damages.

Crooker claimed Microsoft's security features should have prevented the federal agents from being able to view his files, including a video of him having sex with his wife, and his Internet Explorer browser history, which included numerous pornographic Web sites, InformationWeek reported.