Re: How police broke net pedophile ring

[bobandcarole]

On Mar 27, 3:57 am, Brandon D Cartwright <u...@example.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:51:16 +0100 (CET), Baal
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> >Nomen Nescio wrote in alt.fan.yardbird on Sunday 23 March 2008 08:50 in
> >Message-ID: <7ee0d67d9680557cdf1a2c2901613...@dizum.com>:
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> >>http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/how-police-broke-net-pedophile-ri...
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> >> AUSTRALIAN police have played a leading role in smashing an
> >> international pedophile internet network.
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> >> More than 22 pedophiles who thought their super encryption code was
> >> unbreakable have been arrested in the US, Canada, Europe and
> >> Australia.
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> >Typical media hyperbole.... The fact remains that PGP is /yet/ to be
> >broken--they didn't need to break it to get the information they were
> >after. The court documents make it plain--they made a deal with a suspect
> >(presumably apprehended with matters unrelated to the group) to hand over
> >the private key and passphrase (if any) in return for a plea-bargain of
> >some sort.
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> >> Police around the world are using a new high-tech program - Child
> >> Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) - that links millions of files on
> >> child abusers. It was developed on the orders of billionaire Microsoft
> >> chairman Bill Gates and given to Australian police this month.
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> >My understanding is that this software comprises a custom-database, which
> >allows all forces using it to share information freely, using a common
> >data-format. Prior to this, forces were using a variety of incompatible
> >systems, or even paper files. This made information sharing difficult, if
> >not impossible. It may be very good, but it's not magic.
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> >> Australian Federal Police High Tech Crime Centre director James
> >> McCormack said police were getting on top of the internet criminals.
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> >> "It is a war being fought on many fronts. They do have very
> >> sophisticated means to hide their crimes but we are also using more
> >> and more sophisticated techniques and we are now having great success
> >> in this area," he said.
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> >It's very much like the Cold War, with advantage switching from side to
> >side as technology improved. The police are far more sophisticated than
> >they were 10 years ago, but the criminals haven't been standing still,
> >either. If anything, criminals tend to be early adopters/users of
> >technology, generally outstripping the police in the technology race. The
> >police have been playing catch-up for the last 10 years. Given structural
> >and financial constraints, they are always in a game of catch-up.
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> >> "I am very confident we are going from strength to strength in beating
> >> these people in the high-tech war."
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> >What else would you expect him to say? Even if the current number (22) of
> >those arrested is correct, there are still just over one-half of the ring
> >currently not in custody. (Court documents gave the number of participants
> >as 45.)
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> I suspect they are being mopped up as we discuss it..and ..of course
> many more will be given up by those arrested if they privately
> communicated to each other in violation of their FAQ ..
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> SA Cochran's affidavit regarding Castleman's activities indeed
> suggests approximately 45..yet 62 subjects of investigation are tabled
> on pages 7 and 8.
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> http://www.rep-am.com/newsdocuments/affidavit.pdf
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> >The original documents listed some 12 participants; does anyone know who
> >the other 10-12 are?
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> Well Yardbird of course..Then there is the mole..
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> Their multiple nyms in various groups are documented in the tables of
> page 7 and 8.
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> http://www.rep-am.com/newsdocuments/affidavit.pdf
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> >[snip]
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> >> The trade in these images is estimated to be up to $20 billion.
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> >[snip]
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> >$20 billion!!??? I'd love to know how in hell they came up with /that/ one.
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> That was the conclusion of a Council of Europe investigation into
> internet pornography.
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> Sorry I don't have a link to the original report
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> http://www.canadianvalues.ca/commentary.aspx?aid=320
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> The Council of Europe report stated in 2004 that "the annual market in
> child pornography on the Internet is almost 20 billion dollars,
> ...pedophile images make up almost a quarter of the images downloaded
> from the Internet."
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> It is reported that the Interpol now has a database of a staggering
> 200,000 images of children having sex with adults. A US agency has
> recorded a 1500% increase in reports of child pornography since 2001.
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> The US Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported one website
> with 70,000 customers, all paying nearly $30 a month for graphic
> images of children being abused. We must act to stop this trade of
> child abuse today. Hundreds of thousands of children's lives depend on
> us.
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> >One estimate that I've seen of the number of pedophiles in the United
> >States is about 100,000. Out of 300,000,000 people that works out to
> >0.03333% of the population. If we assume that the total population of
> >Europe is another 300 million, this means that using the same proportion,
> >there are another 100,000 pedophiles. Let's throw in another 10,000 for
> >Canada.
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> >So, we're looking at what, a total 'market' of maybe a third of a million
> >people. Given this size of market, each 'pedophile' would have to 'spend'
> >$60,000 on child pornography to come up with a $20 billion market.
>
> That's not how it works or how the figures are derived..
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> for example..
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> http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleI...
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> An international task force got help from companies such as
> MasterCard, Morgan Stanley, and Visa when it brought down a $1
> million-a-month Belarusian operation called Regpay in late 2004 that
> ran child porn Web sites. The result: 1,400 people have been arrested.
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> your data analysis doesn't take into account the new breed of virtual
> pedophile..
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> RIGHTS-ASIA: 'Internet Pushing Real Time Porn'
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> http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35895
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> BANGKOK, Dec 19 (IPS) - In the lengthening vocabulary that describes
> child abuse, 'streaming' now defines the formidable challenge faced by
> child rights activists campaigning to stop children from being trapped
> into the sex trade over the Internet.
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> Revelations by the Philippines police offer a glimpse at what such
> activists face regards streaming, where children are lured into
> cybersex dens and filmed for instant distribution on the Internet to
> an online audience of paedophiles in places near and far.
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> ''A senior police officer in the Philippines estimated that there are
> 50 to 75 cybersex dens in the country where webcams are used to film
> sexual images, and that children are being sold by their parents in
> this 'new market'.'' states a report on the South-east Asian country
> released Tuesday by End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and
> Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT).
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> ''The growth of new communication technology has given rise to access
> children easily,'' Amihan Abueva, a Philippines national who heads the
> global child rights lobby ECPAT's international board, told IPS. ''The
> Internet has helped to build a new community of offenders as seen with
> streaming.''
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> In many cases, such abuse of children in the cybersex dens are ''done
> on demand, where the abusers would pay in advance for what kind of sex
> abuse they want to view and between whom,'' she added. ''The
> Philippines has become particularly vulnerable to this.''
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> A police raid of cybersex dens in Angeles City in the Philippines late
> last year exposed a glimpse as to who some of the abusers are. One was
> run by a couple from the United States and another by a Canadian man.
> These dens were catering to expatriates from the West as well as
> affluent men from Japan and South Korea.
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> The concern about streaming is one of many troubling realities that
> groups like ECPAT are confronting 10 years after the problem of
> commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) was acknowledged as
> a global issue crying for a solution. The campaign to end such
> violations was launched at the First World Congress against CSEC held
> in 1996 in the Stockholm.
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> The ''Stockholm Agenda for Action'' called on countries to strengthen
> laws as one of the measures that governments and activists felt were
> needed to end this scourge. Yet as ECPAT reviews progress since that
> ground-breaking meeting in the Swedish city, it concedes that ''legal
> measures alone are not enough to stop the (adult) demand (for sex with
> children).''
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> What the past decade has also thrown up are the problems posed by the
> growth of information technology, which has advanced exponentially
> during the same period. That, says child rights activists, has
> introduced new ways to communicate, such as chat-sites and message
> boards on the Internet in addition to mobile phones with cameras,
> which have helped the spread of child pornography.
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> ''Developments in information technology are seeing multi-billion
> dollar growth in child pornography materials and the number of adults
> accessing images of child abuse,'' ECAPT added this week as it
> released reports of 52 countries surveyed on action taken since the
> Stockholm meeting a decade ago. ''The children they seek to entrap can
> now be victimised from anywhere in the world with very few countries
> putting sufficient protection measures in place.''
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> >[snip]
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> >The lapdog press, as usual, laps up and spits out any crap the authorities
> >feel like handing out. I wish that, just for once, someone would question
> >these people and put them on the spot--make them justify their wild claims.
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> They are not so wild..it's expected to grow to $30 Billion
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> http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleI...
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> Coalition Launched To Fight Child Pornography
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> The Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography includes credit card
> companies, banks, and Internet companies that will work with law
> enforcement and the National Center for
>

Always nice to see the pedo filth get what they deserve.