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The Story of the Pedophile-catching Hacker

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the small-world dept.

missing30 writes "A Turkish hacker seeding usenet groups with trojan horses has made it a habit to hunt down pedophiles trolling the groups. The cases go back to 2000, with the mysterious good samaritan responsible for several arrests. The man now has tacit approval from the FBI for his actions." From the article: "At the urging of Montgomery Police Capt. Kevin Murphy, '1069' eventually turned over more and more information that led back to a computer owned by Bradley Joseph Steiger, who had worked as an emergency room physician in Alabama. The hacker's finds included information from Steiger's AT&T WorldNet account, records from his checking account, and a list of directories on his computer's hard drive where sexually explicit photographs were stored."

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  1. You're obviously a pedophile. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only a pedophile would have anything to hide from hackers. I bet you hate America. Please turn yourself in to your nearest police station or orphanage. Thank you.

  2. Yeah by Walzmyn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mild mannered pedophile catcher by day...
    Evil identity theif by night.

  3. Re:I say the ends don't justify the means. by kfg · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd rather have private hackers do it than the government.

    What color is your shirt?

    KFG

  4. What about me? by telchine · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been doing something similar, I've been stalking around on Napster and the like since about 2000, gathering "evidence". I now have quite a healthy collection of "evidence". I wonder if this will work as a defence when the RIAA come knocking?

  5. Re:We don't need no stinking cops! by RPoet · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'll go rape them with a fucking shovel.

    That's a very disturbing fantasy you got there. May I check your harddrive?
    --
    "Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
  6. Re:I say the ends don't justify the means. by Deltaspectre · · Score: 5, Funny

    What? This?

    The phone rings at KGB headquarters.

    "Hello?"

    "Hello, is this KGB?"

    "Yes. What do you want?"

    "I'm calling to report my neighbor Yankel Rabinovitz as an enemy of the
    State. He is hiding undeclared diamonds in his firewood."

    "This will be noted."

    Next day, the KGB goons come over to Rabinovitz's house. They search
    the shed where the firewood is kept, break every piece of wood, find no
    diamonds, swear at Yankel Rabinovitz and leave.

    The phone rings at Rabinovitz's house.

    "Hello, Yankel! Did the KGB come?"

    "Yes."

    "Did they chop your firewood?"

    "Yes, they did."

    "Okay, now it's your turn to call. I need my vegetable patch plowed."

    http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=kgb.txt (and found at http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194175&cid= 15918611)

    --
    My UID is prime... is yours?
  7. Re:I say the ends don't justify the means. by sdriver · · Score: 2, Funny


    I don't wear a shirt you insensitive clod!

  8. Re:Plausible deniability by symbolic · · Score: 2, Funny

    And you think future hackers aren't going to plant evidence on innocent peoples hard drives for notoriety, or passes from the FBI?

    All the suspect has to do is claim that there's no way that the planted evidence is his, because all of *his* illicit material is encrypted. oops...