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Name: JL Rodgers
Location: Robinson, Illinois, United States

Thursday, March 20, 2008

FBI posts fake hyperlinks in order to catch child predators

Here we go -- actual examples of how the link scanners could (if the pages happened to be linked by search engines, while searching not for specific content, but info about it) get you arrested. Apparently the FBI's going around posting links to the illegal porn on sites, and getting search warrants. Now while on the surface this seems to make sense (despite all the problems, such as finding out the referrer to the content, and the content of the post that leads someone to the page), it'd be extremely easy to not only accidently click such a link -- but to also not even need to click it. What if someone wants to get even with you, so they send you an e-mail that just so happens to open up the link? What if you're just doing harmless searching and the page (or even a page that links to it, but isn't a porn site in itself)?

While it's true that now the story's broke out, they're probably getting nailed from every side possible -- and eventually will either fix the problems, or realize that "hey, we just had fifty million people go looking for illegal porn stuff, maybe something's up!" At least I hope so.

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