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- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,news.admin
- Subject: Re: Child Molestors - internationally organized?
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:13:09 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211201713.10@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov18.112016.15985@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.204243.27392@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <1992Nov20.135538.6837@ulysses.att.com>
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- I'm crossposting this to news.admin. Just some more trivia for the
- a.b.p.e thread.
-
- In article <1992Nov20.135538.6837@ulysses.att.com>
- smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
- >Well, folks, there may really be a world-wide computer net of child
- >porn afficianados -- naturally, funded in part by the U.S. government,
- >though I don't think they realize that yet. And what is the high-tech
- >communications mechanism they use? Why, it's netnews, of course,
- >described in today's NY Times as ``a major computer bulletin board
- >that is used internationally''.
- >
- >Yup -- according to the paper, a Cornell sophomore's dorm room was raided
- >by the FBI; they're investigating whether he ``used graphics imaging
- >technology to copy pornographic pictures of children onto computer files''.
- >
- >Someone, either the FBI agents or the reporter, doesn't have too much of
- >a clue about what Usenet is: ``Investigators say they think the student
- >may have gained access to the bulletin board through Cornell's computer
- >network.'' And one of the reasons they're concerned is that ``the files
- >had appeared in several regions of the United States as well as "on
- >another continent". Well, yes, that is the way netnews works.
-
- How was he discovered? Who turned him in?
-
- --
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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