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Well we all knew it wouldn’t be Fox or any myspace staff taking up a good cause. Fact they said it can not be done.

Just like the porn industry paving the way for online marketing and credit card sales for amazon itunes and the likes. Makes you wonder who really cares about you and whos in charge of setting the good guy / bad guy role.
“Wired News editor catches MySpace pedophile Wired News editor (and notorious reformed hacker) Kevin Poulsen has an article up today explaining how he wrote a script that ferreted out registered sex-offenders on MySpace, something the company has refused to do. Some of the offenders he found were just hanging out with their friends and families, but a few were actively soliciting sex from children — his work led to the arrest of one such, Andrew Lubrano. Poulsen’s project appears aimed at producing some empirical data on whether pedophiles are using MySpace, and whether MySpace could effectively police their activity (Fox, who own MySpace, are lobbying for a law requiring sex offenders to register their email addresses to make this easier). But he evinces skepticality about whether this would be a particularly useful technique in the long term — and I agree. This only works for so long as sex offenders use the names they were arrested under (or under Fox’s proposal, it only works if they voluntarily obey the email registry law even as they set out to commit another crime). Presumably, if Fox was continuously combing its registry for known offenders, word would get around and the bad guys would assume aliases.”

The rest of the story at boingboing and Wired Mag

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/16/wired_news_editor_ca.html

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,71948-0.html