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| ::darkshadows:: (blood@thirsty.net) |
2008/08/19 21:41 |
On 19 Aug 2008 21:46:02 -0500, Daytek <Daytek@isp.com> wrote:
>Taken from SecurityFocus website:
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>P2P investigation leads to child-porn busts
>Published: 2008-08-19
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>Federal law enforcement officials arrested seven men on Tuesday on charges
>related to child pornography, the latest arrests in an investigation of
>peer-to-peer networks that has led to 52 California residents charged or
>indicted this year.
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>******Look at this paragraph*****
>The investigation, spearheaded by the FBI's Sexual Assault Felony
>Enforcement (SAFE) team and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
>used unspecified "sophisticated computer programs" to identify child
>pornography stored in folders shared through peer-to-peer applications,
>such as Limewire, according to a statement released by the office of Thomas
>O'Brien, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. Law
>enforcement officers have previously used pattern-matching programs,
>similar to antivirus scanners, to quickly scan Usenet groups for images
>that match a list of known images of child abuse.
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>"As criminals exploit technology to commit their crimes -- whether it be
>identity theft, money laundering, distribution of child pornography, or any
>other criminal conduct -- law enforcement will quickly react to develop
>equally sophisticated means to track down their wrongdoing," O'Brien said
>in a statement.
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>****Read the last sentence*****
>Federal law enforcement and state prosecutors have aggressively targeted
>those who traffic in child pornography. In 2006, officials announced that
>more than 125 arrests had been made nationwide as part of an investigation
>into a Web site that sold access to images of child exploitation. The FBI
>have also reportedly sent links of purported child pornography to
>newsgroups and then raided anyone who clicked on them.
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>Companies have also rushed to cooperate with law enforcement on fighting
>online sex crimes. Five major Internet service providers pledged to seek
>out and bar Usenet groups that traffic in child pornography. And in 2007,
>after finding its service potentially a haven for thousands of convicted
>sexual offenders, MySpace barred at least 29,000 people believed to be
>registered offenders from its social network.
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>The efforts are not without some controversy, however. Two progressive
>policy groups have urged state prosecutors to do more to target online
>crimes that affect consumers, not just child exploitation crimes. The
>Center for Democracy and Technology and the Center for American Progress
>could not find much reliable data on states' investigations into electronic
>crimes, but what they did find suggested that prosecutors are overly
>focused on sex crimes. Moreover, in two notable cases, prosecutors appear
>to have gotten the wrong person, resulting in calls for better training of
>law enforcement personnel.
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>In the latest case, eight law enforcement agencies teamed up with the FBI
>to form SAFE, including the California Department of Justice, U.S. Postal
>Service, Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff's
>Department. The U.S. Secret Service and the National Center for Missing and
>Exploited Children also took part.
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>All 52 people charged or indicted as a result of the investigation reside
>in California. A single charge of possession of child pornography carries a
>sentence of up to 10 years in prison, unless the person has previously been
>convicted of a child exploitation crime, in which case the sentence is a
>minimum 10-year prison term.
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Come out of hiding for your yearly bath?
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darkshadows
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