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MySpace Predator Caught By Code

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the true-names dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "Wired News editor and former hacker Kevin Poulsen wrote a 1,000-line Perl script that checked MySpace for registered sex offenders. Sifting through the results, he manually confirmed over 700 offenders, including a serial child molester in New York actively trying to hook up with underage boys on the site, and who has now been arrested as a result. MySpace told Congress last June that it didn't have this capability." Wired News says they will publish Poulsen's code under an open-source license later this week.

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  1. Re:Don't believe it by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This article isn't credible. It must be a hoax. I mean, c'mon, you really expect me to believe someone wrote a 1,000 line perl script. And that it did what it was supposed to?

    Sure, here's the source after I re-wrote it:

    lyiyiy[]\][\[]'\;/\8768yhkj][[\][;'/.,.,,87897[] pedophiles.r.us[\][\][

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  2. am I the only one .. by BalkanBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that thinks MySpace is a huge overdone, bloated, kitsch, piece of crap? I personally like multiply.com 10x better...

    --
    'A lie if repeated often enough, becomes the truth.' - Goebbels
  3. Re:Easy? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's what you get for using a Microsoft web server.