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Police Target Free Email
Red Wolf writes "The Australian Federal Police are talking with the major free email providers in the hope of making it easier to trace suspects who use the accounts for crimes like fraud and paedophilia."
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When it comes to such things as privacy, freedom of speech, and so on, all bets are off and you are at the whim of the government. Traditionally, Australian governments have respected such things, but the current government, in the name of anti-terror, is steamrolling tradition.
Re-read the article.. they want the elimination of all free email service worldwide.
They, and I quote: '"Do away with free internet (email) accounts," he said. "If they aren't free then people will pay by credit card and that gives law enforcement some starting point.'
They want their jobs to be easier.
Another great quote: '"There will always be rogue states that will provide an internet haven in the same way they provide a banking haven," he said. "This has to be seriously raised at an international level."'
So, the subject line is correct, for once.
It's worth noting that there is now one truley anonymous e-mail service, anonymail, which runs off the back of the IIP IRC network. At the moment outgoing mail is limited to replies to incomming mail, but because of the nature of IIP it would be hard to impossible to find out who send what to where.
Payment for the service is by hash cash, a computationally expensive operation you must perform to be able to register, as a way of deterring spammers and other system abuses. In that respect it's better than conventional e-mail at present - no spam to my mailbox yet.
Beep beep.
surely a pedophile if he acutaly goes as far as brakeing the law must have come into physic contact with the victim at some point shouldn't that make a good starting point to finding him and whats to stop someone using one of the many stolen credit cards on the web to get a hotmail acount with most pedophile related cases the suspect is easyly identifyable proveing he acuatly commited the crime is normaly the hard part this law will not help at all its just another case of goverments blameing the internet for an age old problem
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If only Hotmail in particular and other free email providers would clue in.
They already do. E-mail I get from Hotmail at least has an X-Originating-IP header, as well as a Received: from xx.xx.xx.xx by whatever.hotmail.com via HTTP.
I'm quite sure Yahoo does something similar too, but I don't have an e-mail sent from a Yahoo account handy.
help@nym.alias.net
For instructions.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
The trade in child pornography is almost entirely non-commercial and therefore your assertion is incorrect. Most child pornography is traded over newsgroups, IRC, IM, or on egroups, where only in-kind renumeration is required.
Most commercial child pornography websites are actually fronts for police sting operations. I scanned about 15 so-called Russian child porn websites and found that all of them were hosted within the US.
Because the police do not inform the public about their sting operations, it is difficult to make judgements about how lively the commercial child porn trade is. For all we know, 100% of commercial child porn websites are run by the police, or it could be less than that.
I can tell you that it's a recognized fact that during the 1980's, the US Postal Service was the only distributor of child porn in the United States, a state of affairs the US government would like to enjoy again in their game of luring and jailing people.
Philip Jenkin's Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet is about as fair a work on the subject as can be had in these days if you are interested in more information.
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