Renowned Hacker Kevin Poulsen helps nab MySpace Predator

One of the well known hacker called Kevin Poulsen at the 90 era (beside he’s my idol too .. lol) helps police get MySpace sexual predator who’s looking for victims through the popular social networking site MySpace. By using his perl scripts Kevin Poulsen was able to get the sexual predator information and so on. And while his automated Perl script resulted in a large number of false positives, he was still able to find 744 confirmed sex offenders with MySpace profiles after examining just one third of the data

The search ultimately resulted in one arrest, of repeat sex offender Andrew Lubrano in New York. Like many sex offenders, Lubrano registered his MySpace account using his real name.

“My search left me less convinced that targeting past offenders would be an effective way for MySpace to find current or future predators.” Poulsen wrote on Wired News. “By its nature, a search like mine is only going to produce people who use their real names and addresses, and who are perhaps the least likely of the offenders to be up to no good.”

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