MySpace Predator Caught By Code

[metadigital]

An anonymous reader writes,

"Wired News editor and former hacker Kevin Poulsen wrote a 1,000-line Perl script that checked MySpace for registered sex offenders. Sifting through the results, he manually confirmed over 700 offenders, including a serial child molester in New York actively trying to hook up with underage boys on the site, and who has now been arrested as a result. MySpace told Congress last June that it didn't have this capability." Wired News says they will publish Poulsen's code under an open-source license later this week.

[Checkpoint]

Wow, that's actually quite cool, but also a bit unnerving. I've been pondering getting a MySpace for some time, but stuff like this makes you paranoid.

 

...and NO, I don't molest young boys.

[Blarghagh]

See, there the news agencies help track pedophiles.

 

Here they constantly report on the ****ing pedo political party.

 

SCREW HOLLAND.

 

WHY DO I EVEN BOTHER WITH THIS COUNTRY.

[kirottu]

MySpace for registered sex offenders.

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^I think that pretty much sums it up what

[Craigboy2]

Wow, that's actually quite cool, but also a bit unnerving. I've been pondering getting a MySpace for some time, but stuff like this makes you paranoid.

 

...and NO, I don't molest young boys.

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Not anymore, you don't.

[Calax]

Sorry... my group was a year before Myspace... instead we had to deal with LiveJournal!

[metadigital]

Because sex offenders don't register for LiveJournal ...

[Nartwak]

I don't think LiveJournal was as ever as ubiquitous as MySpace.

[alanschu]

This certainly helps with the culture of fear.....

[metadigital]

FACTS ARE OUR FRIENDS!