MySpace SexOffenders
looked at some automated search code tonight for fun that Kevin Poulsen ran against MySpace’s membership - it scraped rolls for 385,932 registered sex offenders in 46 states, mined from the Department of Justice’s National Sex Offender Registry website and then it ran against MySpace profiles…
Excluding a handful of obvious fakes, there was confirmed 744 sex offenders with MySpace profiles, after an examination of about a third of the data. The dude that built the code identified and busted this guy http://myspace.com/pancake26 but he is still out… So think again when you add a MySpace ‘friend’…
it is reasons like this that I stopped doing myspce altogether although I kept up my profile because of the traffic I was getting referred organicly… Ill just never msg people over it. not the kind’of risk I want any more than damage I’ve already gotten from social networks such as this.
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