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How to track pedophiles?

In Australia, they managed to track pedophiles (or more accurately, they caught adults with child porn), but my question is HOW they did so. I mean, there are surely porn sites dedicated to children, so how did the police/trackers track them down? Do the police have access to every single person's internet history? Otherwise, how did they track these people?

It's pretty simple, really, to identify the persons who accessed a website once the server is located. Web servers maintain a log of all communications. These logs include the IP address of every session and the date and time. Most ISPs will cooperate with the authorities when asked to identify the customer who had that IP address at that specific date and time. Yes, ISPs do maintain that information. That is only one way that they are identified.

Several years ago I was working at a computer shop. A machine came in with what appeared to be kiddie porn on it. We turned it over to the police. Evidence on that machine lead to coordinated raids in at least 6 countries and several hundred arrests.

Many paeodophiles hang out in chat rooms, both to exchange porn and to attract victims. The often pose as young children. Police also lurk in these chat rooms attempting to trap the scum. Forensic software makes it possible to backtrack the IP address in real time. Although many of these perverts use "anonymous" proxies to try to hide their true IP address, operators of commercial proxies will always coorperate with authorities. The operators of rogue proxies will virtually always cave in when threatened with charges of aiding and abetting child pornography.

There is no true anonymity on the net. If you are just a curious citizen wondering how we do what we do, now you have an idea. If you are "one of them" be forewarned: We WILL track you down and get you. Be very afraid when you hear that car slowly rolling by at 2:00 AM. It just might be "The Old Bill" coming for your 'puter.

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