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Oct. 17th, 2006 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Okay, two things. 1000-lines of Perl script. ONE THOUSAND LINES.
Jeez.
But go you, Poulsen-you!
And also "they will publish Poulsen's code under an open-source license"
Which means, basically, that other networking and meeting sites can use the code to apprehend other culprits too. For Free..
Today, the internet has become a bit safer.
IT: MySpace Predator Caught By Code
Posted by kdawson on Monday October 16, @11:02PM
from the true-names dept.
An anonymous reader writes, "Wired News editor and former hacker Kevin Poulsen wrote a 1,000-line Perl script that checked MySpace for registered sex offenders. Sifting through the results, he manually confirmed over 700 offenders, including a serial child molester in New York actively trying to hook up with underage boys on the site, and who has now been arrested as a result. MySpace told Congress last June that it didn't have this capability." Wired News says they will publish Poulsen's code under an open-source license later this week.
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Okay, two things. 1000-lines of Perl script. ONE THOUSAND LINES.
Jeez.
But go you, Poulsen-you!
And also "they will publish Poulsen's code under an open-source license"
Which means, basically, that other networking and meeting sites can use the code to apprehend other culprits too. For Free..
Today, the internet has become a bit safer.
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