Predator Profile

[Carolyn Marie]

I've had conversations with local FBI agents and they are well aware that sites like this are often targets. If someone hacked this site, or preyed on members, and it could be shown that they were in or used a server in a different state, it could be a violation of federal law.

We take the safety of our members very seriously.

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Jo-88]

I've had conversations with local FBI agents and they are well aware that sites like this are often targets. If someone hacked this site, or preyed on members, and it could be shown that they were in or used a server in a different state, it could be a violation of federal law.

We take the safety of our members very seriously.

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

Yea I would assume most of that info is logged either by the site's hosting service or by the ISP that hosting service is using... its gotta be logged somewhere and stored at least for a short amount of time. Well at least I hope so. Im sure the FBI has perfected the process for finding out that kind of info at this point... you can't hide from the feds.

[Guest Guest_SL]

I've had conversations with local FBI agents and they are well aware that sites like this are often targets. If someone hacked this site, or preyed on members, and it could be shown that they were in or used a server in a different state, it could be a violation of federal law.

We take the safety of our members very seriously.

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

Yea I would assume most of that info is logged either by the site's hosting service or by the ISP that hosting service is using... its gotta be logged somewhere and stored at least for a short amount of time. Well at least I hope so. Im sure the FBI has perfected the process for finding out that kind of info at this point... you can't hide from the feds.

The problem is rogue servers working out of some basement in the Cayman Islands or Eastern Europe. An internet individual or group can switch those like changing socks and those locations have little regulation or law enforcement and most officials take backhanders so there are hot beds of 'net baddies out there who can't be tracked or shut down.

The US and the UK and Germany, to name a few governments have vast and efficient resources and info share and having worked for one agency, the best in the world, for a year I know first hand what they can do and it's mind blowing but much of their efforts are dedicated to finding groups who pose a larger threat.

Bottom line, when you power up and get on the 'net, do all you can to guard your information. Each key stroke you make can be read by someone as easily as reading the Sunday newspaper if they hit your isp.

The VA and SS are hacked all the time and that's a ton of info to tap into.

SL

[KathrynJulia]

Very True:

I attended a very good security conference two years ago where I was shocked by what I heard. Eastern Russian Mob are recruiting the best and the brightest programmers right out of the best Eastern European Universities. They offer big salaries to these kids along with cars, girls, apartments and even drugs to lure these kids to working for cyber crime.

Kathryn

[Guest Melissa~]

As a government employee I'm actually familiar with one of the Police that does the same thing as Kathryn, yep. However this guy is no lady at all, he's big and mean, but I bet talks as a cute girl in the chat rooms. I'm not privy to the details but the various PD's have some sort of network of Police that handle this stuff.

[KathrynJulia]

Melissa:

Their is a network across the US of State and local law enforcement and we share information. The head of our task force has been doing this for 12 years and is he good. We have monthly training meetings and bring in officers from other agencies. You are paired with an experienced person a minimum of 12 weeks before you jump in. They prefer ex law enforcement as they have the training to hopefully not give someone a pass with an entrapment defence. They have to come on to you. We'll get in a 2 way or 3 way chat between us and wait until they try and chat us up. We use volunteers, some agencies use sworn officers, but that gets expensive and the burn out rate is pretty high. I've been doing it 13 months now and there are nights that you go home and shower after chatting with some of these creeps. Two years doing this is a really long time. Some nights can go pretty late especially when you have to get up and go to work the next day. Many of these people never go beyond the talking phase. It's the active predators we want because they are dangerous people. The talkers though, sometimes you wish you reach out and touch them because they can be pretty sick but they get a pass unless they make an overt move to entice a child into meeting them. They are the ones we go after with pretty new bracelet jewelry for them to wear. Details on the 10:00 news. Kathryn