To Catch a MySpace Predator
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- December
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The networking Web site MySpace is partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp., to weed out sex offenders surfing its pages. According to an “Associated Press story”:http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/12/05/myspace.database.ap/, MySpace is building a database of names, physical descriptions and other details that will be used to track down the unwelcome MySpacers…but the site won’t adopt Sentinel technology that can verify users’ ages.
What do you think? Can MySpace purge itself of predators?
P.S. A number of local communities have taken it upon themselves to educate people about the dangers of MySpace and similar sites. Tomorrow night there’s a free public talk on “Internet safety for kids”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061205/NEWS01/612050336/1024/NEWS08&GID=qelYX2usZtxunoYzqyvAdD4ZVOBaDttg2izylp9JQws%3D sponsored by the Pelham schools.
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MySpace claims that it has the capacity to clean out the predators. I would hesitate to accept their statement at face value. I believe that the appropriate response would be for an investigator to attempt to enter the site using the tools and methods available to a reasonably skilled adult-the same tools available to most predators. This experiment would demonstrate the ease or the difficulty of a evading MySpace’s security system.
Rita Fogelman
I am 13 and already 4 exicans have started talking to me and the last one i received on the 16 or December, 2006 he told me he wanted to get to know me. I want to know who to tell about this problem so they can try to catch this guy if he turns out to be a sexual predator.