I smite thee! ...The Diary of Nod

Dateline: Top Notch Reporting

First, NBC Dateline wanted To Catch A Predator, so they teamed up with a group of vigilantes who send adults (and some kids) into internet sex chatrooms posing as children and then post the personal information of the "pedophiles" online. It took three tries before Dateline started clueing the cops in.

This past week, Dateline took on the new phenomena of people stealing expensive electronics. It seems that iPods get stolen a lot. I never would have guessed. So Dateline packaged a bunch of iPods to look new, but with a hacked installation disc that sent personal information to NBC, and left them in public places for people to find and "steal". One has to wonder if the install disc is considered criminal malware.

But it gets better. Dateline went to DEFCON to find criminal "hackers" but were exposed by the convention and ran when the DEFCON visitors wanted to take pictures.

posted by Lachlan @ 12:45 AM