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As they fight online child pornography, law enforcement agencies get help
from an unlikely source: hackers
By Deborah Radcliff
In Depth, Aug. 17, 1998 In February, the information systems department at
Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, Calif., learned that child
pornography was being stored on a server somewhere on campus.
The tip-off message to IS included the exact IP address. In Sonoma
State's system, each IP address is associated with a specific port. This
one was a direct Internet connection in a dormitory. The IS staff captured
images flowing into and out of the port before university police made the
arrest.
"It only took us a couple of hours to catch the guy," says Sam Scolise,
Sonoma State's information technology director. "But it was a very
depressing day for our staff because of the horrible things they saw."
Sonoma State received its initial tip from what some might consider an
unlikely source: a Swedish hacking group.
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Received on Mon Aug 17 09:14:03 1998