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Cops Walking the MySpace Beat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hard-to-walk-that-particular-neighborhood dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Forget Future Employers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yep, and you don't don't even have to post for your IP to be recorded. My server records lots of information from visitors such as, general location, IP, browser, OS, etc (I think this is pretty standard for most web servers). I only use the information to perform trace-backs on IPs with seemingly malicious attacks on to my server. However, most of the time when I've encountered annoying visitors (like someone constantly trying to login using various usernames and passwords) I just block their IP as I don't have time to actually contact their network provider. Yes, a network provider can be contacted and the info is easy to get with a whois search on an IP. Posting AC only keeps you anonymous relative to other regular users.