Slashdot Mirror
Cops Walking the MySpace Beat
theodp writes "Meet the point-and-click police. Newsweek reports that a growing number of ordinary officers are working a new beat, turning to MySpace to collect clues and crack offline cases. Most of the nabbed wrongdoers have been victims of their own hubris, like the two boys who uploaded video of themselves firebombing an abandoned airplane hangar earlier this month."
Most of the nabbed wrongdoers have been victims of their own hubris, like the two boys who uploaded video of themselves firebombing an abandoned airplane hangar earlier this month.
I was thoroughly disappointed when I clicked that link and saw that there was no video after the site had loaded.
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
Only a dumb ass would post things on the internet.
Damn you!
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
stop spamming, lardass.
So you're suggesting that my recent investment in the social networking sites BankHeistSpace.com and WillTradeKiddiePornVids.net is a bad move?
Parents should be more diligent not with monitoring every single thing their kids do on the computer
Yeah, C'mon parents......teach your kids not to post video after they firebomb buildings. Make those nosey cops find the perpetrators the old fashioned way.
Some bring out the best in others, some the worst. Some bring out far more.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Well, crap. Now I gotta go change my MySpace profile. Are the cops checking Blogger, too? I hope not. What's the usual sentence for third-degree yoinking and aggravated shenanigans?
He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.
Good question; I'm sure there's at least one brit who posts to this site; let's ask them how it feels.
No need to worry though; as long as you have the bases covered:
/. IP Hashes on a regular basis (I've been told /. does; but I have no first hand idea how often or even or not if that's true).
1)Don't do anything wrong
2)Make sure your computer isn't broadcasting an IP (I hear there are sites that can help you with that)
3)Cmdr Taco dumps all of the MD5ed
"Hey, you're supposed to be working, what are you doing browsing profiles of 16 year old girls on MySpace?"
"I...er...I'm...um...I'm looking into possible crimes that these teenagers may have committed. Right. That's what I'm doing."
Good point Steve.
Ooh shit, sorry man.
Still, I've had to cut way back on having sex with 13 year olds since the cops started infiltrating Myspace.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
It's actually much easier to if you commit your crime in front of a green screen.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
A Darth Vader mask works fine 90% of the time. But if you go around saying "Luke, I am your father", you've blown your cover.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.