Hackers on Steroids (22 page)

This December 2010 article from The Gladstone Observer, a regional newspaper covering Queensland, Australia, conjures up quite the picture of a demented, salivating old paedo sitting in front of his computer and using what can safely be assumed to be a false online identity with which to attempt to sexually exploit children with:

Mum tells of paedophile's effort

Sasha Pcino 8th Dec 2010

A TANNUM Sands mother got the fright of her life when a paedophile tried to befriend her 13-year-old daughter on a social networking site a couple of weeks ago.

‘He tried with my daughter but she clicked straight away and pretty much deleted and blocked him,’ the shocked mother said.

A spate of similar incidents has prompted her to warn other parents.

‘I was shocked and when I found out what he was saying I emailed … all the kids and anyone who was friends with him,’ she said.

The man uses three different profile photos as well as a default blank picture.

He initially adds the kids as a friend and then gets the children to play a game called Master and Slaves.

Any conversations should be saved, for evidence, and reported to the police.

Exerpt of a conversation:

Daniel:
‘Hi Tiny, it’s me Daniel. Do you remember me?’

Child:
‘My name isn’t even Tiny. Lol.’

Daniel:
‘Ok. Sorry. Do you remember me?’

Child:
‘No. so who are you?’

Daniel:
‘I’m Daniel.’

Child:
‘Why are you adding like a million girls that I know?’

Daniel:
‘It’s nice to meet you.’

Child:
‘Where you from?’

Daniel:
‘How are you? Sydney, Australia. So can we be friends?’

Child:
‘I don’t know you.’

Daniel:
‘No but why can’t we talk on here.’

Child:
‘We can.’

Daniel:
‘So are you at home now, in your room? Yes or no’

Child:
‘Yeah?’

Daniel:
‘Alone.’

Child:
‘Are you an internet rapist or something?’

Daniel:
‘No I’m not. I’ll tell you why I ask, OK.’

Child:
‘Then why are you asking if I’m at home alone in my room?’

Daniel:
‘I’ll tell you if you promise to keep it private, OK.’

Child:
‘OK.’

Daniel:
‘It’s so we can play a game, that’s all. OK.’

Child:
‘What’s the game?’

Daniel:
‘Close the door and lock it. Have you done it?’

Child:
‘My door is always closed and locked.’

Daniel:
‘OK, the game is called I’m your master and you’re my slave. Do you understand me? Yes or no.’

Child:
‘Sure.’

Daniel:
‘So I own now. OK. So you call me master.’

Child:
‘Hahaha. Yes master.’

The Observer could not print the rest of the transcript due to its inappropriate nature.

Unfortunately, not all children are going to be as clued in as the young girl in this story thankfully was, and all this as Mark Zuckerberg pushes for children under the age of 13 to be legally allowed - and therefore encouraged - to join in the Facebook fun. Facebook can’t even protect the adults on its site from its legion of vile predators, never mind keep safe the millions more kids who would inevitably be added to the already millions of under 13s on it should Zuckerberg’s proposals bear fruit. I imagine that if they do so then a lot of those new eight and nine-year-old children swooping into each other’s friend lists on the site may, on closer inspection, be found to be in possession of deep, gruff voices and sweaty, hairy hands. Little children live in an alternate universe to the rest of us and that sacred universe of innocence should be protected from all of the badness of our world as best it can; but in the Facebook system – as on the wider Internet – those evil beings that on such innocence feed can become phantoms, disappearing and reappearing at will. They can be anyone online, even eight-year-old children. And these predators have an animal-like intelligence that directs them oftentimes to the most vulnerable children on which to prey.

There is not even an option on Facebook that allows users to specifically report creeping paedophiles or child sex abuse imagery on the site. What would it cost Facebook to add such a reporting option and to establish close working relationships with police forces all around the world to help them tackle the huge problem of the paedophiles on its site? There exists all over the website now groups and pages dedicated to seeking out the child pornography traders and swappers and reporting them to either Facebook itself (something that I have pleaded with a couple of them never to do, considering how Facebook are interested more in merely deleting the content than in getting the offenders arrested) or to groups such as the IWF or its American equivalent the Cyber Tipline (which are by far the preferable option of the two), that review the reports and report then themselves to the police if illegal content is found. Some groups using the Anonymous brand are a part of this endeavour, which shows how for some at least the idea of Anonymous has become the polar opposite of what it was during the dark days of the Mitchell Henderson trolling. While these groups certainly mean well, I fear that they could be wasting the valuable time of these organisations by getting their members to file the same reports about the same images. One report per image, profile, or group should suffice. They probably also should be told that they are at very real risk of running into trouble with the law as searching out child pornography and posting up the address links to pages containing such is illegal no matter where you are and even if you are doing it for the right reasons. But I certainly can understand them wanting to do something – anything - to help fight against this unspeakable evil. I just genuinely don’t want to see them get into trouble for it.

It also is worth asking - of ‘Anonymous’ especially - as to whether they are sharing everything they find with the cops or related agencies or if they are just taking it upon themselves to go over the heads of the police in some cases? Some groups styling themselves as Anonymous are now well-known for closing down websites hosting child pornography, but are they letting the police or some other agency look at those websites first before they take it upon themselves to close them down? Because those are real children being abused in those images and every image is a crime scene that real police need to see and pour over. It is important that every single image is entered into police databases for the experts to study – this is what leads to paedophiles being identified and children taken away from their clutches. For ‘Anonymous,’ for all its infantile bluster, isn’t going to be able to do a single thing on its own for the children in those images.

And at least some of the Anons involved in anti-paedo actions on the Internet display what is a criminal level of idiocy on this matter. Said one of them on reporting child porn to the police (all ‘sic’):

Ben A Wilkinson
well these a few anony rooms i can point you to fighting for the same thing only having nothing to do with government there a wast of time we tend to take down the sites are self

And:

Ben A Wilkinson
i wonna help but im not agreeing to having anything todo with the fbi or govenment aganceys

So at least some of them want to make what is nothing more than a computer game out of ‘fighting’ paedophiles. They obviously don’t care about the actual children in the images who are being abused - they can just go on being abused for all they care. These imbeciles just want to play online computer games with the paedophiles and fuck it hampering real police efforts to rescue real abused children. Hopefully a few little pricks like Ben A Wilkinson will themselves feel the long arm of the law around their necks for their attempts to obstruct police and government efforts to save children from their abusers.

It’s no use roving gangs of vigilantes prowling the red light district in Peadoland and temporarily drawing the curtains over some of the windows that look in on crying children sitting there in ruby-hued rooms and dressed in lingerie. If you are doing nothing to help rescue those same children from their abusers, and indeed like Ben A Wilkinson and his ilk actually in practise going out of your way to stop those children from being taken away from their molesters, then just take yourself and your ‘We are legion’ retardation and kindly fuck right off away from the whole thing and don’t ever come back. Because obstructing the potential rescue of children from their torturers just to fill in your own hours in the day is an unforgiveable crime. (But all real respect to Anonymous members who are working with the police’s consent against this evil).

That said, the existence of these groups and how many of them are completely open lets me see that things are as bad today as they were back when I was actively involved against the paedos back in late 2010 to early 2011. If Facebook was really serious about tackling this crime against humanity on its site they would, as well as drastically rethinking as to how new accounts can come onto their system in the first place, have an option specifically for reporting child sex abuse images (as well as being able to report those using the site to seek for and advertise such images), along with an option for alerting them to suspected paedophiles posing as children. This could allow them to respond immediately to any reports from their user base as to such; and if they were really, really serious about this then once those reports were received and verified as real they would contact the police in the home countries of the offenders and offer to them any and all help they need to prosecute the creatures in question. Of course any such option would be abused to the hilt by the worst of the trolls, but once more that just brings us back to the problem of how simple it is to get a never-ending series of trolling profiles onto Facebook in the first place.

The ‘micro blogging site’ Twitter with its over 500 million active profiles (let us assume that those 500 million profiles are not operated by 500 million separate individuals) has its own - reportedly very severe - child pornography problem, but it at least officially acknowledges that such a problem exists within its electronic confines and it has a special email address listed on its site for regular users to report such content to them, and another for police forces to contact them directly in relation to it. This doesn’t deal with the dilemma of how fake profiles are as easy to get onto Twitter as they are to Facebook and elsewhere, but it at least is a step in the right direction (not that it appears to have had much effect so far, with one anti-paedo activist telling me that Twitter is now worse than Facebook for child pornography). For Facebook, though, adding an option like this onto their application would be too much of an overt reminder to their users that they have a serious problem in this regard, and the company are very loath to admit that the problem is out of their control. Remember:
image is everything.

How closely they guard their image was personally illustrated to me by an occurrence that took place in July of 2011. I had established contact with the office of a British Member of Parliament and had been in regular email contact with her personal assistant, who had taken a keen and personal interest in the happenings on Facebook regarding both the RIP trolls and their fellow child abusers and torturers in the Facebook paedophile web. This good lady had contacted Facebook to relay to them the concerns that both she and her boss had about the information which I had given to them on such, and Facebook had provided her with a spokeswoman to answer her queries. An email that I had sent on to this Facebook marionette through the MP’s office detailing as to how the easily-concocted fake profiles on the system were leading to both child porn swapping and sustained campaigns against bereaved people was answered only with the same old corporate bollocks that I have come to expect of this flesh-crawlingly creepy company.