Busted on MySpace
Kevin Poulsen over at Wired has an amazing story about how he wrote a program that compared MySpace profiles with registered sex offenders. Poulsen’s investigation ended up in the jailing of Andrew Lubrano for soliciting sex from a minor online: ‘In May, I began an automated search of MySpace’s membership rolls for 385,932 registered sex offenders in 46 states, mined from the Department of Justice’s National Sex Offender Registry Web site — a gateway to the state-run Megan’s Law Web sites around the country. I searched on first and last names, limiting results to a five-mile radius of the offender’s registered ZIP code…’
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(Via NPR Blogs: Mixed Signals.)
October 17th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
Det har længe undret mig, hvorfor Murdoch betalte SÅ mange penge for MySpace, hvor er værdien i det? Om ikke andet kan han nu få noget goodwill ved, at hans site kan bruges til at fange sexforbrydere.
Godt arbejde af hr. Poulsen.