Click Crime

Click Crime
Mark Rasch, 2008-05-09

It has long been a crime not only to commit an illegal act, but also to attempt -- or conspire with others -- to commit one.

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Click Crime 2008-05-15
Anonymous (1 replies)

Reminds me of the movie "minority report". Before long people will be going to jail for for thinking of comiiting a crime....

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Re: Click Crime 2008-05-19
The_Master

Here CLICK this link! CLICKTY CLICKTY CLICKTY! If people didnt click stuff crackers would go out of buisness!...

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Click Crime 2008-05-21
Anonymous

What if someone copied the link URL address of one of these traps (let's call a spade a spade), then put it in an e-mail with a description like "Take a look a these really cool videos and pictures" and sends it to me; then I click on it?

Do you think the prosecutor will stop for a tenth of milli...

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Click Crime - National Information Sharing 2008-05-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

One also has to remember, if evidence is gained on a person via the using internet entrapment in the USA/Germany/etc, that data can be used for enforcement in a country with anti entrapment laws. This is because the information sharing requirements between countries does not include the full disclos...

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What if I post a tinyurl shortcut to a honeypot? 2008-06-08
Anonymous (1 replies)

This whole thing is so silly. What if someone figures out its an FBI operation, makes a tinyurl link to it, then posts it everywhere so people click it without having any clue what it is? There are just so many holes in what they are doing it's totally retarded....

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Re: What if I post a tinyurl shortcut to a honeypot? 2008-08-13
Anonymous

Same scenario. What if a criminal were to put that link in an email that was sent government prosecutors with a benign tagline that they themselves would click. Would they have to prosecute themselves? ...

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Click Crime 2009-05-13
SeismicMike (1 replies)

I'm struck by this line:

"In each case, the FBI successfully prosecuted the owners of the computers for attempting to obtain child pornography by "clicking on an illegal hyperlink."

I'm mostly struck by what it doesn't say. It doesn't say that any of those people were convicted of actual child...

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Re: Click Crime 2009-05-16
Seismicmike

PS. I wonder if anyone has tried to figure out how effective internet proxies are at preventing this......

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Click Crime 2009-05-19
Anonymous

Ok, what if someone posts one of these links using something like Stumbleupon and puts it in a category of say 'fishing'. Anyone who has that as an interest may unknowingly visit the 'fake' site and just move on only to find the FBI at their door within a week or month. The idea sounds good, but i...

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