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Saturday, March 22, 2008
Is Richard Warman working for the FBI?
No, he's not, at least as far as I know. But this technique the FBI has used in child porn investigations sounds like it might have come out of Warman's play book:
The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting
hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and
then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them.
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The government's hyperlink sting operation worked like this: FBI Special Agent Wade Luders disseminated links to the supposedly illicit porn on an online discussion forum called Ranchi, which Luders believed was frequented by people who traded underage images.
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In October 2006, Luders posted a number of links purporting to point to videos of child pornography, and then followed up with a second, supposedly correct link 40 minutes later. All the links pointed to, according to a bureau affidavit, a "covert FBI computer in San Jose, California, and the file located therein was encrypted and non-pornographic."
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When anyone visited the upload.sytes.net site, the FBI recorded the Internet Protocol address of the remote computer. There's no evidence the referring site was recorded as well, meaning the FBI couldn't tell if the visitor found the links through Ranchi or another source such as an e-mail message.
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With the logs revealing those allegedly incriminating IP addresses in hand, the FBI sent administrative subpoenas to the relevant Internet service provider to learn the identity of the person whose name was on the account--and then obtained search warrants for dawn raids.
According to the article, the courts have upheld the search warrants obtained through the use of this technique. In one case, a graduate student is facing three to four years in prison because, after he clicked on one of the FBI's links, a search of his residence turned up "two grainy thumbnail images of naked female minors (the youths weren't having sex, but their genitalia were visible)."
Not only that, but under the law just clicking on the FBI's fake link is itself a crime.
Posted by Terrence Watson on March 22, 2008 | Permalink
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Brings back memories of the old Radio/TV program:
I Was A Communist For The FBI
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/commie-for-fbi.html
Posted by: foobert | 22-Mar-08 2:19:18 PM
Dumb analogy.
Warman goes after people who he doesn't like and for whom he has a certain hard-on for.
The FBI goes after those who have a hard-on for little children.
Pardon the intemperate language.
Posted by: atric | 22-Mar-08 3:28:08 PM
The trap is being put to good purpose in this application, but the same trap can be applied to anyone for any reason.
I don't know what to make of it but child molestors and rapists should lose their right to everything as far as I'm concerned.
And I have absolutely no respect for the likes of Warman.
Posted by: JC | 22-Mar-08 8:06:53 PM
Worman is a freedom molester. He needs to sterilized so he cannot breed.
Posted by: John West | 22-Mar-08 9:48:57 PM
I don't know how novel this method really is. Certainly, Federal agents have been lurking in chatrooms and tracking pedophiles for ages by that method. A very similar technique was pioneered by some of the early adopters of Gnutella: fake files with provocative titles were offered, and then the IPS of the people who responded were posted on a "wall of shame".
Posted by: bigcitylib | 23-Mar-08 6:48:44 AM
If anything, given his connection to the CJC -it is more likely he is 'assisting' the JDL, JDF or Massaud!
In fact, if I recall some of the transcript right - someone arranged for the Israelis to provide "hate-crime" training to Canadian law enforcement.
Posted by: The LS from SK | 24-Mar-08 1:13:46 PM
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