Hacker Helped To Catch A Sex Offender

Posted on September 20, 2008
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This is no more a true fact that the hackers use their talent in unlawful activities. The popular hacker Kevin Poulsen assisted the law to identify some sex offenders among which one got arrested. He used an automated Perl script of 1000 lines to detect this person from the total 744 positive results. As a matter of fact much of this data was fake but churning 1/3 of the total numbers yielded prominent results. As MySpace is one of the most used social networking sites and contains profiles of teenagers, kids and adults, they are the easy target of the sexual offenders.

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