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Thursday, 24th January 2008

Social Networking -- Links leave cop red-faced

Listen up, pilgrims. Does your library have a MySpace page? Have you checked the pages of your "friends" lately? Don't let this happen to you.

Links leave cop red-faced

If kids want to find pornography on the Internet, they don't have to try hard: A Google search with the term "porn" nets 226-million options in less than a second.

Gulf Middle School resource officer John Nohejl's MySpace page, aimed directly at the school's sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders, doesn't fit that description. Yet until Tuesday afternoon, kids could navigate from Officer John's page on the social networking site to "Amateur Match Free Sex" in just three clicks.

One of his MySpace "friends" offered the link, which included photos of nude women. Another friend offered obscene comments about oral sex and large breasts.
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To become someone's MySpace friend, you have to get his approval or his invitation. However, as Rickus noted, once friends win approval, they can change their own page and all the links on them. What once might have been innocuous could take on a different look within minutes.

Computer analysts should be able to reconstruct what the offending pages looked like when the officer approved them, the chief said.

Source: St. Petersburg Times


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