Porn net includes doctors, police
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For parents, the list of those arrested in Australia&#39;s biggest child pornography bust makes sobering reading. Teachers, doctors, health workers, police officers and the owner of three Melbourne
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WASHINGTON The Justice Department has announced that more than 150 people have been arrested, charged or convicted in the past three months in a crackdown on criminal activity on the Internet.
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The site develops a database to keep out sexual predators, then hands it over to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Yay? In Sex Drive Daily.
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China is getting hard on porn. Those caught pushing pornographic images either through the Internet, mobile phones or pornography through phone sex, face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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Members based in UK, Australia, Canada and US A worldwide undercover police operation infiltrated and shut down an online network of 300 paedophiles, police said on Wednesday.â¦
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Brad Willman was installing networking equipment out of an emergency van in British Columbia when a policeman showed up and asked for him. Willman knew the officer from a case he was involved with a couple of years earlier, so he didn&#39;t worry -- until he arrived at the police station and was introduced to a couple of U.S. cops.The visit marked the end of Willman&#39;s version of vigilante justice.A Trojan Horse Used For GoodIt was 2000, and Willman was 19. He had spent the last few years surreptitiously distributing a Trojan horse program to more than 1,000 people to try to uncover child-porn activities. All told, Willman said his work sent around 70 people to prison.But then Willman stumbled on a prominent California judge. He discovered that Ronald Kline, at the time a superior court judge in Orange County, had a big collection of child porn and a diary on his PC indicating he was planning to try to seduce young boys. The high-profile case put an end to Willman&#39;s career as a crime-fighter.&quot;Oh, I knew it was illegal,&quot; Willman said in a recent phone&#160;interview. &quot;But I really didn&#39;t care. I felt if I&#39;m helping a few people in the process, cool.&quot; Until Kline, Willman had managed to stay anonymous.The Origins of the ProgramWillman didn&#39;t initially set out to chase child pornographers. He started out developing a program designed to compete with pcAnywhere, Symantec&#39;s software that lets users access computers remotely.But then, while discussing programming on various newsgroups, he had a conversation with a Canadian man who offered his six-year-old daughter to Willman.&quot;That was an awkward scenario,&quot; Willman says, putting it mildly.Willman quickly contacted the police, who were able to prosecute the Edmonton man, he said.&quot;He&#39;s more or less what altered my mind from competing with pcAnywhere to making a Trojan to see who else is doing this,&quot; he said.Willman used the work he&#39;d already developed on the program to trick suspected pedophiles into unknowingly downloading the software so that he could get proof from their computers.How Willman Used the Trojan HorseWillman would visit child-porn newsgroups and post his program as a file that looked like it contained a photo. In order to avoid suspicion, Willman built in an additional feature. When the program launched without opening a photo, he designed it so that the first time it loaded it would display any photo from the directory to the user.After someone downloaded the software, Willman could look through their files remotely for illicit documents or photos.Once he found damning information, he&#39;d copy and share it with various child-porn watchdog groups, who could then pursue the perpetrators.Everything changed when Kline downloaded the Trojan and Willman found damning evidence on the judge&#39;s computer.Willman passed the information on to one of the watchdog groups as usual and figured that was that -- until the day the police showed up while he was at work.The police from the U.S. told him that they found him through correspondence sent from his computer to one of the watchdog groups.While the police were initially friendly because Willman was able to give them additional information on Kline, they later told him that if he does any more hacking, ever, they&#39;ll arrest him. Willman signed an agreement that he wouldn&#39;t hack and that he wouldn&#39;t have anything to do with child porn.Legal Barriers to Willman&#39;s VigilantismVarious state and federal laws in the U.S. criminalize unauthorized access to computers, said Jeff Neuburger, an attorney specializing in technology at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman &amp; Steiner, an international law firm based in New York City. If Willman hadn&#39;t agreed to the deal with the police, he could have been charged with violating state or federal laws. But even in that case, so long as he didn&#39;t set foot in the U.S., it would have been difficult for American authorities to prosecute him, Neuburger said.He&#39;s seeing more and more cases like Willman&#39;s, where people are using the Internet to accomplish good, but sometimes with questionable means. &quot;In the U.S., prosecutors are careful not to let something like this go without sending a message that what the person did was wrong,&quot; he said. &quot;But they may not aggressively seek a severe sentence or punishment.&quot;One problem with vigilante work like Willman&#39;s is that someone might make a mistake and affect innocent people, Neuburger warned. HadWillman wrongly accused someone, he could have faced much bigger legal problems. &quot;It&#39;s a dangerous thing,&quot; he said.Retiring the TrojanHis days in the spotlight behind him, Willman, now 27, lives with his parents in Langley, B.C., where he does phone tech support for a small cable company. He does computer repair on the side and dreams of becoming a computer security researcher.As for Kline, he was sentenced earlier this year to 27 months in prison, a sentence that Willman called &quot;reasonable.&quot;Once in a while, Willman still gets a request from someone asking for his help in busting someone involved with child porn. He can only refer them to the watchdog groups he was familiar with.&quot;I would like to help these people get their kids in a better position, but I can&#39;t because the type of research I&#39;d have to do is stuff I&#39;m not allowed to do anymore,&quot; he said.Even though Willman knew his actions were illegal, he didn&#39;t consider the consequences. &quot;I thought I covered my tracks pretty well,&quot; he said.&quot;And I did until the Judge Kline thing. I didn&#39;t really think I&#39;d get busted.&quot;
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Study shows some federal employees spend chunks of time surfing porn and gambling sites.
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China&#39;s Internet police have claimed  tangible results in the &quot;people&#39;s war&quot; against online  pornography with the help of tip-offs, but they only scratched  the surface, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Chinese police have shut down a Web  site selling real-time porn and arrested 33 people, state media  said on Wednesday, part of a campaign which led to the  shut-down of 44,000 Web sites and arrest of 868 people last  year.
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Australian Federal Police say the arrest of more than 150 people in relation to internet child pornography should send a clear message about the seriousness of the crime.
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The first images that hide a virus inside them have been found in a pornographic newsgroup on the net.
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The Ministry of Public Security Sunday rewarded a number of informers who have tipped police about pornographic websites since China launched a nationwide campaign to crack down on the illegal on-line operations this July.
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Police have indicated there will be hundreds more arrests as part of Australia&#39;s largest ever crackdown on child pornography. Authorities have so far charged more than 190 people with a total of 2000 offences
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If it's online and people are naked, many consider it porn. Even if what we're really talking about is a sexual evolution spurred by online interactions between cam girls, amateur video makers and other randy folks.
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More than 500 Australians could be involved in child pornography on the Internet, Australia&#39;s top police officer says after nationwide raids saw more than 200 people charged with over 2,000 child pornography offences.
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A police officer at a Florida middle school faces a state criminal probe because one of the 170 people on his friends list had a link to an adult website in his or her profile.
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By Stuart Arnold  A COMPUTER virus inadvertently helped police to catch a paedophile who accessed thousands of child porn images.