patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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Re: The blocks are reasonable.
said by jvanbrecht  :I'm inclined to agree. In my past jobs, I worked security and abuse for UUNET (prior to the whole MCI debacle) and then AOL/Time warner (aka roadrunner). I can tell you, in the course of my duties, I have seem some of the sickest shit possible, both illegal and just plain downright wrong. Perhaps thats a job a certain internet population should pursue.
Speaking of the catching these rings, how do police get into child porn rings, when there are very high entrance requirements of lots of feature length child porn movies required? Do they secretly buy some stuff (possibly custom made, think of the horror) from real producers in untouchable foreign countries? Or they just phish/sniff/security exploit existing members for passwords? Or do they make it themselves? 
It worries me sometimes that these investigators like their job too much in the wrong way.  |
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Corydon
Cultivant son jardin
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join:2008-02-18
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| Considering how much illegal activity on the Internet is done pretty much out in the open (copyright infringement is the obvious example), I'd suspect the purveyors of child porn are no different.
I suspect that it's largely a matter of hanging out in the right chat rooms or getting on the right mailing lists. Websites may be pretty effectively secured, but when you're chatting there's plenty of opportunities for social engineering.
As for some investigators getting way too involved in what they're doing, check out the Perverted Justice website...a lot of those people are almost as creepy as the people they're going after.
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SilverSurfer
join:2007-08-19
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June 11th, @06:59PM
| said by Corydon :Considering how much illegal activity on the Internet is done pretty much out in the open (copyright infringement is the obvious example), I'd suspect the purveyors of child porn are no different. And considering how many completely meritless DMCA warnings are issued for alleged copyright infringement, I'd suspect that kiddie porn fans are few and far between. Let's get something straight here...child porn = bad. But that doesn't mean that we surrender wholesale control of the Net over to Big Bro for him to decide what is for us to see or not see. But considering the path we're already on, the U.S. will make China's Internet gatekeeping policies look generous and liberal in no time. |
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