Childlove and Feds

The NYT today has a long piece on phone hackers,
"The Good. The Bad. The Geeks." With focus on a 
a few in New York City: Mantis, Wicked, Bell Boy,
Vertigo, et al.

Mantis admits working with LEAs in catching pedophiles
and phreakers (note link) who do not abide the "Hacker 
Ethic" of doing no harm, only "helping society" by exposing 
security weaknesses. 

Not all Feds and phreakers agree that pedophobic Feds 
and teeny-cute phreaks help society, although the pedophilic 
Agency allegedly abusing the adorable phreaker for its 
come-on entrapment had "no comment" to its online 
childlove racketeering and profiteering, sort of like the
NYT's art spiegel comic today.

   http://www.nytimes.com

Our clone:

   http://jya.com/gbg.htm

At 8:06 AM -0700 6/14/98, John Young wrote:

>Not all Feds and phreakers agree that pedophobic Feds
>and teeny-cute phreaks help society, although the pedophilic
>Agency allegedly abusing the adorable phreaker for its
>come-on entrapment had "no comment" to its online
>childlove racketeering and profiteering, sort of like the
>NYT's art spiegel comic today.

I was scanning the dial on my shortwave radio recently and landed on Radio
Havana. I was thinking about how in many countries (presumably including
Cuba)  it's a thought crime to tune in to banned broadcasts.

And we in the West unctuously decry this.

But are we all that different?

Suppose "Radio Pedophilia" started broadcasting on 6223 KHz. Fill in the
details on program content, etc.

By any reading of the various child pornography laws in the U.S. merely
_listening_ to such a broadcast would be a felony. Of this this there can
be no doubt.

Were such a station to exist (which it does not), I would expect FCC and
FBI, with NSA SIGINT assistance, would use technical means to isolate who
was tuned to this station and then bust in the doors.

The only difference with the Sovs and Cubans and Berkeleyites would be the
reasons the broadcasts were illegal to listen to.

--Tim May

"The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of
tyrants...."
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