Back Again

Marcos Teia may create new Facebook accounts more frequently than he changes his underwear.  It's hard to tell.  But he inevitably pops up every day or so with yet another name or user photo.  Within a few hours, Facebook has usually shut down not only that account but all of his friends too.  I'm betting that the one below plus all of his friends will get nuked by noon tomorrow.  Mr. Teia has also decided to grace grou.ps with his presence again, along with some reportable photos of young girls.  Hopefully, Facebook security won't get too jealous over this since they'll almost certainly see him again.

BTW, it might be worth checking out his groups before booting him.   He's apparently found his way into at least one that may be sharing something other than Bible verses and holy cards.

Update: They didn't even last until 9 AM Pacific Time.  The group that he was in is gone too.

Looks Like Berkeley

Most of my visitors are welcome, but the ones who appear to be searching for child pornography are sort of a pet peeve.  For a while, I put up a link on the entry that they seemed to hit most frequently encouraging people looking for that kind of material to try the infamous GNAA lastmeasure site.  Some of them apparently fell for it.  It was politely suggested that this might be a bit unseemly, so the link has been removed.

Today, I got a visitor searching the words "looks like pthc."  To be fair, the ISP listing "University of California - Office of the President" may be somewhat misleading.  An nslookup on the IP address resolves to a residence hall at Berkeley and the browser is listed as "Netscape 5.0 Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/8B117."  So I'm guessing that a someone with an iPhone found an open wireless router.

Robert Hull Pleads Guilty

Earlier this week, Robert Hull pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children and is due to be sentenced on May 16th.  Canadian law enforcement discovered child pornography that appeared to be recently produced while investigating a man in Saskatchewan and helped to trace it back to Hull.  The Canadian defendant sounded a lot like the widely-hated "Shane Ispedo" we saw in early November.

Both Hull and the Canadian defendant seemed to be into "hurtcore," a particularly ugly type of pornography.  They exchanged emails fantasizing about raping and torturing very young children.

Plea bargain PDF:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49977482

Links to related stories:
http://www.idahopress.com/news/article_e4c8402c-44f1-11e0-bb03-001cc4c002e0.html
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/03/02/1548459/nampa-man-pleads-guilty-to-sexual.html
http://preferredbypete.com/world-news/32506-sask-child-porn-bust-leads-u-s-girls-rescue.html

Max and Gerd

There's something especially revolting about the folks who seem to be into both sadomasochism and pedophilia.  We've seen this guy before as "Max Lomax."

Gerd seems to have similar interests.

Mexican Article on Pedophiles and Social Networks

Lydia Cacho, a Mexican journalist renowned for her coverage of human trafficking issues, discusses pedophiles and social networks.  The original column is up at http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/columnas/88554.html and the Google translation is here.  She makes some excellent points; the social networks themselves have not done anything wrong, but they are often used by predators.  Shutting down the offending accounts is a start, and Facebook has certainly made an effort.  However, as she points out, the users are often back within 24 hours sharing the same materials, and the problem requires a coordinated effort between law enforcement in many countries.

It might be helpful if social networks made it easier for users to explicitly report child exploitation.  For example, if an image or video was specifically flagged as child pornography, it might be useful to take a hash or some kind of digital fingerprint.  The CP traders we've seen are often very repetitive and I'd guess that many of them are probably posting the same images and videos again and again.  That data plus whatever hashes the government shares would help automatically detect at least some known CP.

Facebook and the Daily Mail

There's a fascinatingly convoluted blog post today entitled "Time for a referee between Facebook and the Daily Mail" by Dan Sabbagh.  This was apparently related to a possible lawsuit about a Daily Mail headline that said "How many victims of Facebook sex gang?"  When pressed, the Daily Mail changed its wording of the headline, but refused to apologize.

In early 2010, the Daily Mail claimed that a man posing as a 14-year-old girl who had created a profile on Facebook had been approached "within seconds" by older men who wanted her to perform a "sex act" in from of them.  Turned out that the author had actually created the profile on a different social network that had nothing to do with Facebook.  Oops.

In a nutshell, I'm not convinced that there's any need for a referee here, but some basic fact-checking from the Daily Mail might be a good start.

One Weekend, Five Accounts

Marcos Teia's apparently had about five accounts this weekend, which is busy even for him.  The Marcos Alves account got bombed sometime on Friday.

Then he was "Marcos Silva."

After that got shut down, he was "Marcos Gomes."  76 friends?  I bet that's more than he's ever had in his real life.  Let's face it, normal people don't find child pornography endearing.

That account got nuked too, and he came back as "Marcos Vasques."  If he has to buy a bunch of pedo friends by constantly posting child pornography, that's pretty pathetic.

And there's another account known as "Lisa Teia."