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Alarm raised on teenage hackers  
By Mark Ward
Technology correspondent, BBC News  



Chris Boyd on how to track a teenage hacker

Increasing numbers of teenagers are starting to dabble in hi-tech crime, say experts.

Computer security professionals say many net forums are populated by teenagers swapping credit card numbers, phishing kits and hacking tips.

The poor technical skills of many young hackers means they are very likely to get caught and arrested, they say.

Youth workers added that any teenager getting a criminal record would be putting their future at risk.

Slippery slope

"I see kids of 11 and 12 sharing credit card details and asking for hacks," said Chris Boyd, director of malware research at FaceTime Security.

Many teenagers got into low level crime by looking for exploits and cracks for their favourite computer games.

Communities and forums spring up where people start to swap malicious programs, knowledge and sometimes stolen data.   For a kid, getting a criminal record is the worst possible move

Graham Robb, Youth Justice Board

Some also look for exploits and virus code that can be run against the social networking sites popular with many young people. Some then try to peddle or use the details or accounts they net in this way.

Mr Boyd said he spent a lot of time tracking down the creators of many of the nuisance programs written to exploit users of social networking sites and the culprit was often a teenager.

From such virus and nuisance programs, he said, many progress to outright criminal practices such as using phishing kits to create and run their own scams.

"Some are quite crude, some are clever and some are stupid," he said.

The teenagers' attempts to make money from their life of cyber crime usually came unstuck because of their poor technical skills.

"They do not even know enough to get a simple phishing or attack tool right," said Kevin Hogan, a senior manager Symantec Security Response.

"We have seen phishing sites that have broken images because the link, rather than reference the original webpage, is referencing a file on the C: drive that is not there," he said.

Symantec researchers have collected many examples of teenagers who have managed to cripple their own PCs by infecting them with viruses they have written.

Video choice

Chris Boyd from FaceTime said many of the young criminal hackers were undermined by their desire to win recognition for their exploits.  
Many teenage hackers publicise their exploits on YouTube

"They are obsessed with making videos of what they are doing," he said.

Many post videos of what they have done to sites such as YouTube and sign on with the same alias used to hack a site, run a phishing attack or write a web exploit.

Many share photos or other details of their life on other sites making it easy for computer security experts to track them down and get them shut down.

Mr Boyd's action to shut down one wannabe hacker, using the name YoGangsta50, was so comprehensive that it wrung a pledge from the teenager in question to never to get involved in petty hi-tech crime again.

Mathew Bevan, a reformed hacker who was arrested as a teenager and then acquitted for his online exploits, said it was no surprise that young people were indulging in online crime.

"It's about the thrill and power to prove they are somebody," he said. That also explains why they stuck with an alias or online identity even though it was compromised, he added.

"The aim of what they are doing is to get the fame within their peer group," he said. "They spend months or years developing who they are and their status. They do not want to give that up freely."

Graham Robb, a board member of the Youth Justice Board, said teenagers needed to appreciate the risks they took by falling into hi-tech crime.

"If they get a criminal record it stays with them," he said. "A Criminal Record Bureau check will throw that up and it could prevent access to jobs."

Anyone arrested and charged for the most serious crimes would carry their criminal record with them throughout their life.

Also, he added, young people needed to appreciate the impact of actions carried out via the net and a computer.

"Are they going to be able to live with the fact that they caused harm to other people?" he said. "They do not think there is someone losing their money or their savings from what they are doing.

"For a kid, getting a criminal record is the worst possible move."


TEENAGE GIRLS (BRITISH)ACCUSED OF KILLING
Two teenage girls have been arrested after a 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death, police said today.


Officers have launched a murder investigation after the girl died last night.

She was discovered, suffering from a stab wound, when police were called to a disturbance in Mann Close, Croydon, at just before 8pm.

The victim was taken to Mayday Hospital where doctors pronounced her dead. Police believe they know the identity of the victim, but will not release details until her next of kin has been informed.

The two girls, in their late teens, are currently in custody at separate south London police stations.

A spokesman for Metropolitan Police added that the two girls being held were known to the victim and were arrested at the scene.

He said that officers arrived at Mann Close to find the victim and the two teenagers who have been arrested.

"They were known to the victim, but we cannot comment on the nature of their relationship to her."

@EHIE
im sure she didnt expect us to find that many failures in the united kingdom, she s probably scratching her head in confusion wondering where "great"britain went wrong, i have a couple on paedophiles in britain including gary glitter and how british people go all round the world especially developing countries molesting children

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Roger Gaspar: Law enforcement is adjusting to a global challenge


"It is a different world now… We have to move ourselves into this new world. It is a great challenge for us."

Roger Gaspar, NCIS



Patrice Rapalus says information security breaches are very widespread


"Data espionage and data theft, credit card fraud, child pornography, far-right extremism and terrorists are ever more common on the internet"

Joschka Fischer, German foreign minister







Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing criminal activities on the planet. It covers a huge range of illegal activity including financial scams, computer hacking, downloading pornographic images from the internet, virus attacks, stalking by e-mail and creating websites that promote racial hatred.

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Cybercrime is defined by British police as the use of any computer network for crime and the high-tech criminals of the digital age have not been slow to spot the opportunities.

The cost is staggering. The German foreign minister Joschka Fischer recently put the global figure at more than $40bn a year. "Without doubt, this is only the beginning," he told an international conference. "Data espionage and data theft, credit card fraud, child pornography, far-right extremism and terrorists are ever more common on the internet."

Given the extent to which computers have become a part of modern life, it was inevitable that some people would see the wired world as an opportunity to make money or cause mischief.

The term hacking was originally used to describe an audacious practical joke, but has become better known as a term for the activities of computer enthusiasts who pit their skills against the IT systems of governments and big corporations. The handiwork of some hackers, or "crackers" as they are known in the computer industry, has had disastrous results. The "love-bug" virus crippled at least 45 million computers worldwide and caused billions of dollars worth of damage.

Then there is fraud and extortion. Some hackers have broken into the computer systems of banks and other businesses, with the intention of stealing money - or information like credit card numbers, which are just as valuable to the criminal.


90% of US companies which responded to a Computer Security Institute survey said they had detected computer security breaches in the previous year
74% acknowledged financial losses as a result of the breaches of security
273 organisations quantified their financial losses: the total bill came to $265m.
25% of respondents detected penetration from outside their company
79% detected employee abuse of the internet, for example downloading pornography or pirated software
85% detected computer viruses
Source: CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 2000




CSI director Patrice Rapalus believes the trends are disturbing. "Cybercrimes and other information security breaches are widespread and diverse," she says.

Scams by cyber-criminals include setting up bogus companies on the Net. Unsuspecting buyers are offered products at tempting prices, and then supply their credit card details - only to find that the site suddenly disappears. No phone number, no address and no redress. The dot com becomes a dot con.

Another 21st century crime is identity theft. This usually does not involve hacking at all. Criminals can trawl the web or other public databases for information about someone's date of birth, social security number and address and then use that to apply for credit cards and run up huge bills. It is easy to do and as a result is one of the fastest growing crimes in the US.

The availability of hard-core pornography on the internet, including material aimed at paedophiles, has helped to give it a bad name. But it is not just the police who are cracking down - many companies now routinely monitor the sites their employees visit online, and those who download pornography run the risk of being fired.


World without boundaries

In the UK, the National Criminal Intelligence Service has compiled a report on the threat of cybercime called "Project Trawler". Director of Intelligence, Roger Gaspar, says the internet has eroded the protection provided by national laws against such activities as pornography.

"The internet is a global system," he says. "We can now be attacked by criminals who do not need to come to this territory. Lots of policing arrangements have their roots in the fact that victim and offender are geographically co-located.

"It is a different world now, and if you can do your business legitimately from home via the electronic medium, why can't that business not be criminal business? We have to move ourselves into this new world. It is a great challenge for us."

So the problem for all law-enforcement agencies is the way that cybercrime, like the internet itself, is not limited by national boundaries. An investigation that begins in one country may quickly lead elsewhere, but without the co-operation of other nations, it may be impossible to track down the perpetrators and secure convictions.

In the UK, the government is making more cash available to the police and other agencies to target cybercrime. The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit is being set up with the intention of making the UK one of the safest places in the world to take part in e-commerce. A team of "cyber cops" will help to police the internet.

Announcing the plan, the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, said: "Modern technologies such as the internet offer up huge legitimate benefits, but also powerful opportunities for criminals, from those involved in financial fraud to the unlawful activities of paedophiles.

"The significant cash injection I am announcing will boost the police service's capability to investigate crime committed through computers, including paedophilia, fraud, extortion and hacking."


Questions of liberty

The FBI has a Computer Crime Squad with more than 200 agents across the United States. It makes use of informants and under-cover agents. It says the problem is no longer confined to juvenile hackers; professional criminals are now exploiting the internet for profit.

Recent virus epidemics around the world, and attempts to extract money or data from major corporations, have demonstrated just how much damage such attacks can cause, and cybercrime is now being taken very seriously at an international level.

But when the Council of Europe produced a draft treaty on cybercrime, it was deluged by e-mails from internet users concerned about possible infringements of their privacy and liberty.

One complaint said that the proposals could have "a chilling effect on the free flow of information and ideas."

European officials say they have tried to address these concerns, and stress that their intention is simply to consolidate laws against activities such as hacking, spreading viruses, and computer fraud so that in future there is a standard way of securing the digital evidence needed for prosecutions.

felifeli:

@angiefan
It is a no-brainer to see that all the pictures come from ONE SINGLE album at Photobucket.com and they are exhausted now save for one which I will assist you to post below. What title would you give this one



Guys, you can see all the pictures together at http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/owena13/

You are despicable fake crap "angiefan" . You couldn't find someone to buy your photos at photobucket.com , isn't that right ?
Something tells me you are not female either and you are just massaging your ego on the "British Born and British Bred" shit. In fact I believe that you are a mischievous dickhead just jerking off . Peace

Now who is Owena13 ? Never mind, we will find out in a short while

@ FooliFooli

I now know what your issue is. Unfortunately for you the last time I checked I was all woman and not a man. So if you are looking for a next D!ck to jerk your own with then you will need to look elsewhere. Sorry I can't be off any help.

So you now know my full photbucket address, now what? Are you going to send the Nigerian military after me for daring to speak to truth like that blogger that was arrested on arrival in Abuja last month or the Journalist that was beaten into unconscious last month. Are you going to attempt to get my account shut down like Yar Adua did to that Nigerian station? Thank God I live in a country where free speech rules.

You must know you are just another sad pathetic sonofabitch.

Debosky i no know where to bite u from,but i will start by where u said we are
a confused lot,posting about Briton.
All my life i biliv say Oyingbo shi no dey smell,well thx to to a lot of thngs we know differen.However the poster pafun waned us to see a diffrent side of Britain and probably the west,because we all had this illusive myth that the grass is greener there(and that accounts for people going here unprepared)He enlightened us.
So U saying we are a confused lot is horseshit.
It doesnt make us confused or stupid.Nigeria has itsproblems,a myraid i'd say and we don't deny it,infact we complain a lot everywhere.On Blogs ,on Tv, in the media.
We arent ostriches,but everyday i see people determined to succeed against all odds.I don't see us shouting like little girls when images of bad Nigeria is posted all over the world.
However we shouldnt loose sight of the good aspects of Nigeria,but balance them on a scale.

Angiefan
wetin dey do u sef?
one naija man hit u run?
i trus our dudes they dey take una do yeye there well well

HE BLOCKED THE PHOTOBUCKET ACCOUNT , THIS GUY IS A REAL CRIMINAL !!!!!!

You don't even know if you are a man or woman ? When you take a bath what do you see , or you never bath ? Men have joysticks , women have vaginas , or do you have both ?
Never mind we already know where you live and who you are.

Three hearty cheers for ANGIEFAN the lunatic
Ape , Ape, Ape,
Hoooooooooorraaaaay !!

End of Story .

AngieFan:


@ FooliFooli

I now know what your issue is. Unfortunately for you the last time I checked I was all woman and not a man. So if you are looking for a next D!ck to jerk your own with then you will need to look elsewhere. Sorry I can't be off any help.

So you now know my full photbucket address, now what? Are you going to send the Nigerian military after me for daring to speak to truth like that blogger that was arrested on arrival in Abuja last month or the Journalist that was beaten into unconscious last month. Are you going to attempt to get my account shut down like Yar Adua did to that Nigerian station? Thank God I live in a country where free speech rules.

You must know you are just another sad pathetic sonofabitch.

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Cybercrime wave sweeping Britain  

Cybercriminals use sophisticated and professional techniques  
Cybercrime in the UK rose by more than 9% in 2007, according to a new report.

Online identity firm Garlik's cybercrime report claims that more than 3.5 million online crimes were committed in the UK last year.

The majority of crimes related to fraud and abusive or threatening e-mails. There was an 8% drop in online identity theft and sexual offences fell 2%.

Tom Ilube, of Garlick, said he expected to see a growth in online financial fraud due to the credit crunch.

 Everyone who goes online will be the subject of some kind of internet crime

Andrew Goodwill, 3rd Man

In 2007, the sharpest rise was in online financial fraud, with more than 250,000 incidents reported in 2007; a 20% rise on the previous year.

The report highlighted a growing professionalism among online criminals, with personal and credit details being traded online.

Garlik said that the information black market had doubled, with more than 19,000 illicit traders identified.

Abuse and blackmail

Online harassment also increased. More than two million people were the victim of an abusive email, false accusation or blackmail attempt.

It is thought the growing popularity of social networking sites helped drive this, providing a new widespread medium for online harassment.

WHERE CYBERCRIME COMES FROM
United States 63.2%
United Kingdom 15.3%
Nigeria 5.7%
Canada 5.6%
Romania 1.5%
Source: The Internet Crime Complaint Center 2007 annual report

However, there was a drop in cases of online identity theft, which fell 8% to just over 80,000 reported cases.

The number of online sexual offences also fell by 2% to 830,000.

The report warned that a rise in overall cybercrime was to be expected, with people resorting to illegal activities as the economic climate worsens.

Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing criminal activities and covers a wide range of offences, including financial scams, hacking, harassment and identity theft.

 As long as the credit crunch continues, we can expect to see a real growth in online financial fraud

Tom Ilube, Garlik

But some people think the report is just the tip of the iceberg.

Andrew Goodwill, from fraud prevention specialists The 3rd Man, said cybercrime was mushrooming out of proportion.

"Cybercrime costs the country hundreds of millions every year," he said.

"Retailers alone lost more than £270m in 2007 from internet fraud. And that's just the figures reported by banks.

"These numbers are a shadow of the real figure. Pretty much everyone who goes online will be the subject of some kind of internet crime, be it phishing e-mails, virus attacks or malware," he said.

According to the FBI, the UK is home to many of the perpetrators.

In a 2007 report by its Internet Crime Complaint Center, Britain came second after the United States (and before Nigeria) as the source of online crime.

Garlik's chief executive Tom Ilube sounded a warning for the future.

"It's critical in this time of financial crisis that individuals are vigilant with their personal information, because as long as the credit crunch continues, we can expect to see a real growth in online financial fraud," he said

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UK fly-tipping 'on massive scale'

Fly-tipping means big bills for councils and private landowners
Fly-tipping is taking place on a "massive scale" across the UK, the Countryside Alliance has warned.
Some 2.5m cases of illegal dumping were recorded between April 2005 and 2006, it said, with 1,249,527 incidents reported in Liverpool alone.

The alliance used the Freedom of Information Act to find out from local authorities the scale of the problem.

Fly-tipping may become "an increasingly appealing option" if households start being charged for rubbish, it added.

Last year, a think tank urged the government to give councils powers to charge households for disposing of non-recyclable rubbish.

FLY-TIPPING HOTSPOTS

1. Liverpool - 1,249,527
2. Sheffield - 161,898
3. Haringey, London - 63,767
4. K'ton and Chelsea - 58,374
5. Manchester - 30,818
6. Birmingham - 25,782
7. Southwark, London - 24,852
8. Lewisham, London - 18,987
9. Portsmouth - 18,883
10. Newcastle - 18,244

The Institute for Public Policy Research said a "pay as you throw" system was the only way to improve the UK's poor recycling record.

Such a "bin tax" has not been ruled out by the government.

However, the Countryside Alliance says this means Britain's dire fly-tipping "may get worse before it gets better".

The alliance said its report marked the launch of its national campaign which aimed to push the issue up the agenda.

The cost of clearing up fly-tipping to local authorities alone was nearly £100m between April 2005/2006, the alliance said.

Black bags

Black bags full of domestic rubbish accounted for 63% of all fly-tipping and more than half of fly-tipping took place in alleyways, the report revealed.


Its report also called fly-tipping "one of the most widespread problems facing the countryside", which was a big concern and expense to private landowners.

Last year, there were just 24,460 prosecutions for fly-tipping, meaning only one in every 100 fly-tipping offenders was prosecuted, the report said.

If you fly-tip on private land the owner gets the stress of clearing it up and the bill. If you fly-tip on public land the taxpayer gets the bill

Countryside Alliance

This resulted in eight custodial sentences, 44 community services and 120 absolute or conditional discharges.

Countryside Alliance chief executive Simon Hart said: "Many people believe that fly-tipping is something they can get away with and that the victim is faceless. This is nonsense.

"If you fly-tip on private land the owner gets the stress of clearing it up and the bill. If you fly-tip on public land the taxpayer gets the bill.

"And in both instances, as well as breaking the law, you are ruining the beauty of the countryside for everyone."

The report said offenders ranged from one-off "opportunistic" fly-tippers to criminal gangs carrying out regular and highly-organised fly-tipping operations.

The Countryside Alliance wants to consult with local communities over several months before publishing proposals in September on how best to address the problem.

It is also co-ordinating a National Fly-Tipping Week from 23 to 29 April to raise awareness.

@Ehie

You make a lot of sense. However you must understand that starting a thread like this is tantamount to throwing down the gauntlet and so the poster and everyone else who joined in should have known what to expect in return.

I would be the first to admit that yes, of course there are nice places in Nigeria but at the same time, such places are out of reach by a long shot to most Nigerians for whom the pictures I posted above are a grim reality. All I have done in this thread is simply given as good as was dished out. I think Nigerians should really concern themselves with the state of their own country instead of trying to down another in order to make themselves feel better.

Downing another country in order to elevate Nigeria will not improve the state of Nigeria and no matter which way you cut and slice it Nigeria is still light years behind Great Britain.

PAEDOPHILES IN BRITAIN, THE NICE BRITISH MAN PLAYING WITH YOUR INNOCENT CHILD MIGHT HAVE ULTERIOR MOTIVES SO WATCH OUT

FBI's sting snares 7,000 paedophiles across Britain

By David Bamber, Home Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 7:58PM BST 05 Aug 2002

More than 7,000 British paedophiles have been snared in a sting operation by US authorities investigating two worldwide internet child pornography rings.

Detectives in Britain have been given the names and addresses of 7,272 Britons who used their credit cards to access pictures of under-age children, some as young as a few months old, engaged in sex acts.

Unbeknown to the paedophiles, the two sites which they were using had been seized last year by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. British police now plan a series of raids on the suspects in what will be the country's largest paedophile investigation.

The Telegraph has learned that the National Criminal Intelligence Service, which co-ordinates use of intelligence against criminals in Britain, has already used the FBI information to organise the arrest of 36 paedophiles in May. Detectives now intend to swoop on many more offenders, all believed to be men, over the next few months.

Anyone who subscribed to the sites and viewed images faces a jail term of up to five years.

All of the paedophiles registered on the pay-per-view websites between May 1999 and September last year. Every customer had to provide an e-mail address and his credit card details: by return they were sent a username and password to enable them to log on to a paedophile site. In October, detectives in the US arrested the websites' owners and seized the database.

The FBI has raided hundreds of homes of subscribers in the US but has found difficulty in mounting prosecutions because the American definition of possessing indecent internet pornography is much laxer than that in British law.

Det Supt Peter Spindler of the National Crime Squad, who organised May's raid, confirmed that it would be the first of many in this country.

He said: "This is the first time we have targeted people who use the internet to buy images of children being sexually abused. We will continue these operations to protect children and show paedophiles that law enforcement agencies will find them, regardless of which area of the internet they use."

News of the investigation will heighten concerns about the levels of paedophile activity in Britain, highlighted by the murder in 1999 of eight-year-old Sarah Payne and the campaign for a "Sarah's Law", which would reveal the whereabouts of child abusers.

Carole Howlett, the Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, who has led the campaign against child abuse on the internet, said that the investigation proved the extent of the problem.

"A lot more work needs to be done," she said. "There is no greater priority than the protection of children: it should become a ministerial priority and it should be a priority of every policing plan in the country. We have a fair way to go."

MORE,
A notorious paedophile who moved to Australia more than 50 years ago arrived back in the UK today after he was deported by the Queensland authorities.

Raymond Horne was released yesterday after serving a 12-year sentence for abusing two homeless boys, and was immediately put on a plane to London. He arrived at Heathrow airport with his head covered by a blanket where he was met by police.

The Australian authorities had planned to keep the 61-year-old in custody indefinitely but immigration officials decided to revoke his visa and deport him.

Despite having emigrated with his family from Britain to Queensland in 1952, Horne never took Australian citizenship and was declared an "unlawful non-citizen".

The Brisbane Courier Mail reported that a prison doctor said the risk of paedophiles such as Horne reoffending increased after deportation due to their heightened anxiety.

The Home Office said: "Where it is known that a sex offender convicted in another country is to be deported to the UK, he is met at the port of entry by the police who interview him and pass any relevant information to the police in the area to which the offender is proposing to live."

Horne will be placed on the sex offenders register, meaning he will face a five-year jail sentence if found alone with a child or near a playground.

Horne was first jailed in 1968 for two months for abusing boys. In 1992 he was again imprisoned for indecently assaulting children.

His latest sentence was imposed after he raped two homeless boys, aged 13 and 15, while working for a charity. The judge described Horne as "a persistent sex offender who preyed upon young, vulnerable boys", according to the Courier Mail.

The Queensland police and corrective services minister, Judy Spence, said the state would be a safer place without Horne

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The hunt for Britain's paedophiles


The producer of a controversial new series investigating paedophilia in Britain has defended the project.
Executive producer Bob Long and his team spent two years filming with police officers as they infiltrated child abuse networks.

The result is a truly harrowing glimpse of the horrifying crimes perpetrated by some of Britain's estimated quarter of a million paedophiles.

One of the paedophiles interviewed on camera later killed himself unable to cope with the prospect of a long prison sentence.



A lot of young children are being very seriously sexually abused,

Executive Producer, Bob Long

And many of the production team needed counselling after their exposure to the horrors witnessed daily by the police team.

Horrific cases

But Bob Long has no regrets about embarking on such an emotionally draining and shocking enterprise.

He explained: "A lot of young children are being very seriously sexually abused, including babies.

"It's a subject that people don't talk about. The press handle it more than television does. But when they do, it's one of two things.

"They either cover horrific cases like the Sarah Payne abduction or murder, which is thankfully rare.

"Or there's the name and shame aspect which is a bit of a distraction because people think the 20 or 30 people they photograph sum up the problem.

Operation Doorknock


Paedophile Julian Levene

"But the lowest estimate I had from the police was 230,000 and I think the series will get that across."

The three-part series which starts on Thursday at 2100BST on BBC Two focuses on the biggest ever seizure of child pornography in Britain.

Operation Doorknock led to the uncovering of a sinister paedophile ring which has been operating for 30 years and sexually abusing hundreds of children.

The series follows the police as they trace dozens of witnesses and go to court armed with 30,000 exhibits.

Four men were eventually brought to justice including 54 year old Julian Levene who wrote a sheet of tips for other paedophiles.

Long said: "Hopefully it will get paedophilia onto the political agenda - it's an under -resourced area of police work and not enough is done to treat culprits.

No stereotype

"Long sentences may keep these people off the street, but ultimately they don't work because a lot of them still don't get treatment. They often come out and do it again."

One of the issues raised by the programme is the use of the internet, which Long claims, "creates paedophiles".

He explained: "You get a guy surfing the net and perhaps looking at adult pornography. At the edges are all the other types of pornography.

"He then starts looking at child pornography, he becomes obsessed and then starts getting actively involved."

Long says working on the series dispelled any notion he and the team had of "a stereotypical paedophile".

He said; "One of the paedophiles we spoke to was 29, had a lovely girlfriend, lots of friends and was very, very sociable.

"During his police interview, he admitted that he was drawn into paedophilia by looking at it on the internet.



One of the interesting things about them is that they are nice men

Bob Long
"The internet needs policing - these sites are so easy to find and very easy to get into.

"Why are they there? Why are they allowed to be there?

"If this series achieves anything, I hope it will be the better policing of these sites."

"Nice men"

Long admits that he and team found it impossible to remain detached during filming and some of the team, including Long himself, took up the offer of counselling .

He explained: "You can't keep your emotions out of it. Sometimes we spent the whole day with paedophiles.

"One of the interesting things about them is that they are nice men - that is how they are able to operate."

One abuser, who agreed to an on-camera interview was lifelong paedophile, 41-year-old Mark Hanson.

Long said: "Hanson was very eager to please - he was a sweet guy. Then next day we'd see what had been seized from his home including graphic images of him raping a six year old boy."

Hanson was arrested, but later killed himself unable to face the prospect of another lengthy prison sentence.

Long said: "We were shocked, but that feeling subsided when one of the officers took us to one side afterwards and told us afterwards what he'd done."

He added: "The shame of the series is we had to pixellate the images of the paedophiles. Paedophiles say that children like it.

"But if you saw their faces - the pain, the horror and the fear - you would never accept that argument."

FooliFooli

So what if you know who I am? lol What are you going to do with the info? Hack into my bank account and steal my money? Come to my house and steal my car like the scum you are. I am not scared of the likes of you. Come down to my house and I will set my dogs on your retarded behind with a quickness before calling the police to deport you’re a$$ back to your cesspit of a country.

@AngieFan
Your tone sounds conciliatory,due to that id talk to u like person
See no one is saying UK is bad,U Know but the idea of the post was that it wasnt made out of a street of gold.
Its not all malls,pounds and burgers.
The wise young one amongst us will see the post,be prepared to struggle it out there,or remain to salvage Nigeria.That was the general IDEA.
It reminds me of he colonial era,where the white master was seen as a demi god,but during he wars when Black Africans went to fight in Burma WW2,they say a human side of their human gods
Whites bled like them,cried and were weak.So the demystification came about.Its all about de-mystifying the idea of emigration.

AngieFan:

FooliFooli

So what if you know who I am? lol What are you going to do with the info? Hack into my bank account and steal my money? Come to my house and steal my car like the scum you are. I am not scared of the likes of you. Come down to my house and I will set my dogs on your retarded behind with a quickness before calling the police to deport you’re a$$ back to your cesspit of a country.

ROTFLMAO
Stupid gay bastard is shitting himself already . These are the miserable frustrated spineless idiots who turn Nigeria into trash abroad by selling the bad parts to people who don't know better for a few dollars per picture . Never mind we will nail you nevertheless .you go smell pepper you gay asshole. who dash monkey dog

FooliFooli

You are indeed one warped individual. First of you start fantasizing about me being a man. I tell you I ain't but still you won't let it go. You seem to be getting off on the fact that I may be one and now you are ranting about being gay. Perhaps these are your sexual fantasies coming to the fore. In any case you do sound like you are aching for for a good black d!ck to be rammed up your ass. This pic is specifically for you gay! 

This one is for Lucra

Paedophilia On The Increase In Nigeria

Uche Nworah - 1/7/2008

Paedophilia is a crime full stop. I don’t buy the argument being peddled in certain quarters that it is a disease; such people also maintain that pedophiles require help. if you ask me, the only help they require is to be shown the way to Kirikiri maximum security prison where they should be locked up for life and the keys to their room thrown into the Lagos lagoon.

I don’t see what pity I can show to a man who decides that the objects of his sexual fantasies would be children almost still in their diapers. Our society is usually a secretive one; people know things and won't talk thus indirectly serving as unwitting accomplices to depraved men parading our communities.

These evil men’s self –appointed tasks are made easier by the poverty ravaging many families in Nigeria. Such families have no option but to resort to sending their children away to ply the streets hawking wares. Talk about sending out sheep before lions. The young girls become easy prey and are quickly devoured by the paedophiles in our midst.

This problem reached home while I was still a teenager. A distant cousin Ada (not her real name) was living with us at the time, she must have been around 8- 9 years old when this incident occurred. At the same time John (not his real name) lived at the house with us, he was recruited to help my father in his building material business in Aba. Around this time, my father’s half -brother (Willy) was planning to move into our neighbourhood and it also fell on John to help with the cleaning of Willy’s apartment before he moved in.

I had always suspected John’s ways going by his various antics around the house but still nothing would prepare me for the shocker I got this particular day when my mum asked me to go fetch Ada from Uncle Willy’s apartment where she had gone to take food to John. On arrival, I knocked hard on the front door for several minutes but didn’t get any answer. I was almost getting ready to leave thinking that they may have left the house when the neighbours living in the adjacent flat informed me that there were people inside the flat for sure.

Shortly afterwards, after repeated banging on the door, John opened the door. As he stood there, I could see the mischievous smile on his face, I did not miss his stench animal smell either which now seemed to have intensified with the afternoon heat, something that made his room at home a no-go zone. It was as if John didn't want me to come into the apartment, he stood still by the door and asked me “Kedu ife owu?” – What do you want?

This was rather an unusual question I thought coming from John, considering that we all used to come to the apartment as we pleased helping with the cleaning and so on. Something propelled me past John and I stormed into the empty seating room. Standing in the middle of the room was a half dressed Ada with tears in her eyes. I didn’t wait to ask questions, nor to be lied to by John about what had transpired, evil rent the air and all I could think of was to snatch Ada and run away, far away from the evil man closing in behind us.

As I reached out for Ada’s hand, I could see the sense of relief on her face, and the fear lodged deep in her eyes. We both briskly hurried out of the apartment oblivious of John’s plea for me not to inform mum and dad about what happened, as if I knew but by then his devilish conscience had already started pricking him, but still his plea wasn't borne out of any remorse for the emotional scar he had just inflicted upon Ada for life but rather out of the animalistic sense of survival which in this instance was targeted at securing his daily bread.

Downstairs, I put Ada on top of my bicycle and wheeled it and her home. She cried all the way and I didn’t know what to tell her. I did not even have the courage to ask her what had happened, at that age and during this time, sex was a taboo especially sex with a minor. My only mission at the time was to take Ada safely home; I would let my parents take care of the rest.

This incident happened several years ago, sometime around 1982 it must have been. Since then, a lot has happened to Ada, she is now happily married. As to John, I don’t know what became of him; he didn’t sleep at our house that night and never did again. Not a lot though has happened on this child protection front in Nigeria; it appears that the paedophiles are still very much at their game’s best. Recent reports allege that child rapes are on the increase in Nigeria.

According to Suleiman Abba, Kano’s deputy police chief, child rapes have risen by an "alarming" extent in Kano. He says that this time, the sexual predators are buoyed by their false belief that sleeping with minors particularly virgins is a potent ritual which can cure them of disease such as AIDS and various sexually-transmitted diseases or make them rich.

Ibrahim Abdullahi, the spokesman for Societal Reorientation Directorate, the body charged with improving morals in Kano state was quoted as saying that “this is a sad development which requires the combined effort of the government, security agencies and the public to combat."

It was also reported that in the last six months of 2007, the Kano police recorded 54 reported cases of child rape and made 60 arrests in connection with them”. Suleiman Abba says that the trend is a radical increase compared to 36 cases recorded in the first six months of 2007. Of worry is the fact that In some of the cases reported, the victims were gang-raped thus fuelling further fears that this devilish acts will not go away anytime soon. Abba said that the suspects’ ages range from 45 and 70 while the victims are mostly girls of between 3 and 11 years. In one incident he said, a man of 70 raped a toddler of three. "We have cases of young men raping minors but the number pales into significance compared to the number of cases involving older men," Abba said, adding that the cases reported are only the tip of the iceberg. "Many cases are never reported because parents want to save the honour of their daughters and protect their family from embarrassment," he said.

Continuing, the report said that the desire to hide the crime is all the more tragic given that some of the children require reconstructive surgery and get infected with the disease their rapist was misguidedly trying to cure, health workers say.

One would have thought that with strict Sharia laws in place in some places in Northern Nigeria that these crimes which carry the death penalty will deter pedophiles from feasting on small children, but it is not the case. This Abdullahi of the Societal Reorientation Directorate attributes to the unwillingness of parents to press charges against suspected rapists for fear of social stigma. "We are stuck , we can't prosecute without witnesses and the parents are usually not ready to go to court and testify. Without witnesses the case is a dead one and you have to free the suspect. And that hurts," Abba said.

How sad indeed, for the poor victims and our society. Is this the kind of answers we should be giving these young girls for failing them? It is as if we are bringing them into the world and letting them to fend for themselves against sexual bigots parading the streets as Uncles and Big brothers etc.

Almost every state government in Nigeria and local government authority has a ministry of social welfare, likewise a supervisory councilor for welfare. There is also ministry or ministries at the federal level responsible for citizens’ welfare and rights. These various ministries are headed by commissioners, ministers, ministers of states and all other such political appointees. There are also countless parastatals and government agencies that one way or the other are charged with the responsibility of looking after the well being of the citizens, not including the hordes of Non-government organizations (NGO) fighting for one social cause or the other.

One would then think that amongst the priorities of the civil servants in these various ministries, government agencies, NGOs etc will be the protection of children's rights. It appears as if they are not doing that, and in so not-doing are failing the children.

While governments at the three – tiers continue to pussy-foot over basic issues affecting the welfare of their citizens, perhaps Nigerians should do more on their own. We could start by being open about this problem, discussing it and talking about it openly. Perhaps that may put the heat somehow on those men who have feasted on the likes of Ada for long hiding under the cover of societal silence.

The mass media have an even bigger role to play to help fight this problem. They should report more about this without necessarily naming the victims. Rather, the perpetrators should be named and shamed as a deterrent to others. Increased awareness created by the mass media will ward off some attacks, and also inform parents of their basic rights, and the children of basic self-protection steps to take, particularly when to start getting suspicious of the ‘good uncle’ with a heart of gold who is fond of buying her sweets and presents or even giving her cash but who will not want her to inform her parents or siblings of such benevolence.

With all sorts of NGOs springing up daily in Nigeria, perhaps it is about time for one of them to consider constructing a safe haven for women like Ada to run to in the first instance where there is no family support and care available. We should not let these children down as they are the future of Nigeria; they are our future mothers and wives.

AngieFan:

FooliFooli

You are indeed one warped individual. First of you start fantasizing about me being a man. I tell you I ain't but still you won't let it go. You seem to be getting off on the fact that I may be one and now you are ranting about being gay. Perhaps these are your sexual fantasies coming to the fore. In any case you do sound like you are aching for for a good black d!ck to be rammed up your ass. This pic is specifically for you gay!

Is that the invitation picture that your friends sent you ? which one the two is your boyfriend ? shameless buffoon.
I see you are peddling paedophilia too ; you will certainly end up in hell and you will burn forever you disgusting evil animal

FooliFooli

Go and look for a d!ck to jack off with you prized pillock as I have nothing for you. I think perhaps you are hoping that I am this monkey looking buffoon in the pic below and you just can't control yourself at the thought of him raming his tings up your ass. Well sorry to disappoint you but the man below is Nigeria's very own Dare Obasanjo who just happens to be married to a woman not into men. Unfortunately none of my boyfriends are into men either so I suggest you got to any of the numerous gay Nigerian websites to satisfy you cravings there.

AngieFan:

FooliFooli

Go and look for a d!ck to jack off with you prized pillock as I have nothing for you. I think perhaps you are hoping that I am this monkey looking buffoon in the pic below and you just can't control yourself at the thought of him raming his tings up your ass. Well sorry to disappoint you but the man below is Nigeria's very own Dare Obasanjo who just happens to be married to a woman not into men. Unfortunately none of my boyfriends are into men either so I suggest you got to any of the numerous gay Nigerian websites to satisfy you cravings there.

So why do you have the Obasanjos' pictures on your photobucket album ? Never mind to answer I forgot you make your living from blackmail you evil cold blooded assassin .

I'm done with you creep, I've got work to do.

Are you sure you're Nigerian?

Derelict homes depress UK mortgage market
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005

The growing problem of derelict properties is starting to hit the UK mortgage market.

According to research from Halifax, using data from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, there are around 700,000 empty houses in England – the equivalent of 3.2 per cent of the country's housing stock.

The number of abandoned properties in an area often leads to the depressing of housing prices and also means more people are forced into temporary accommodation.

"It is in the interest of the whole community to eradicate the empty homes problem," said Tim Crawford, group economist at Halifax.

"Apart from the social benefits of bringing empty homes back into use, house prices tend to be lower in areas with a high number of empty homes."

The North West has the highest number of empty properties, with 127,473 homes left unattended.

However, the UK's current empty housing rates compare favourable with other European countries – with France reporting a 6.8 per cent of its housing empty, whist German reports a rate of 8.2 per cent.

AngieFan:

STINKING PAEDOPHILE !!!

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UK 'unsafe, dirty and anti-family'


Violence, dirt, traffic and unfriendly restaurants all pose problems
The UK is dirty, violent and an unsafe place to bring up children, according to a survey of young families.
Six out of 10 young British parents think the UK is "anti-child" and "anti-family", according to the poll.

Law and order, violence, dirty streets and dangerous traffic were named as problems by the 2,000 people surveyed by Mother & Baby magazine and Pampers nappies.

They were also anxious about "dismal" public transport, dirty public toilets, and over-priced days out.

Slightly over half - 51% - said the cumulative problems were so bad they "no longer feel safe in Britain".

Louts roam the dirty streets, there are no clean public toilets, public transport is dire, parking is scarce and expensive, restaurants treat families as a nuisance and the leisure industry rips them off

Dani Zur, editor of Mother & Baby

A third of young mothers said they did not feel safe even when they were out and about in their local town.

Eight out of 10 said "the current government doesn't do enough to ensure British streets are safe for families and children".

Seven in 10 said their town was dirty and strewn with litter, while 78% said their town did not have any clean public toilets or baby-changing facilities.

Almost two-thirds were "fed up with dog mess on their pavements".

"Too much traffic thundering through their town" was a problem for 62%, and almost half said there were "no safe places to cross".

The only thing that did get the thumbs-up was the local supermarket - which won the approval of 82% of parents.

The problems faced were so bad that almost six out of 10 parents did not take their baby out on a daily basis.

A third of those surveyed had been turned away from a restaurant when they had a baby with them

Dani Zur, editor of Mother & Baby, said: "Britain used to be a wonderful place to bring up young children and it's deeply concerning that so many families no longer feel safe on British streets.

"Street crime has risen so sharply that many mums don't even feel safe pushing their baby's buggy down their local high street.

"It's time children were put first in Britain, not last. At present, local councils don't consider the needs of families out and about in their local towns."

Restaurants

Restaurants seem to pose particular problems for young families.

Almost nine out of 10 families thought the majority of UK restaurants were not family friendly, and 85% felt they were a rip-off.

SAFETY CONCERNS
51% "no longer feel safe in Britain"
32% "don't feel safe in own town"
70% said their town was dirty
62% said there was "too much traffic "

A third had been turned away when they had a baby with them.

As for days out, these were considered extremely over-priced. For the last attraction they visited - not including major theme parks - an adult entry ticket cost on average £8.30 and a child's £4.

The majority of Britain's families said their favourite outing was visiting friends or relatives.

Other than that, the seaside was the first choice for almost half (45%), followed by the zoo, then a park or garden. Only 11% opted for a theme park.

Legoland in Berkshire, which the Queen visited on Tuesday, was named the top family-friendly attraction - but a family of five would have to pay £85.75 to get in.

That was closely followed by the lesser-known Paultons Park near Romsey, Hampshire, which beat all the theme parks in the survey for "best value-for-money".

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51% "no longer feel safe in Britain"
32% "don't feel safe in own town"
70% said their town was dirty
62% said there was "too much traffic "

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im on a roll y'all i v got like almost 40 pictures of just run down houses in britain

britain'ns drug crisis




New heroin crisis threatens Britain, report says• Drug agency warns of opium glut
• Britons still use most cocaine in EUAlan Travis in Brussels guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 6 2008 09.29 GMT Article history
Afghanistan has produced two record opium harvests, with Helmand province, where British soldiers are based, accounting for more than half the poppies grown. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

A glut of opium on the world market fuelled by a record Afghan harvest threatens a new heroin crisis in Britain, the European Union drug agency warns today.

And the UK remains at the top of the European "league table" for cocaine abuse for the fifth consecutive year, according to the annual report of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

But it reports that there are "stronger signals" of the declining popularity of cannabis across Europe, with a strong downward trend especially noticeable among British school students.

The agency suggests this decline may be a byproduct of the introduction of widespread bans on smoking tobacco in public places. Nevertheless the drugs experts say that a quarter of all Europeans - 71 million people - have tried cannabis at some point in their lives, 12 million of them within the last month.


AddAction's Andrew Horne on why Britain leads Europe in heroin and cocaine use
Link to this audio The heroin warning follows two record opium harvests in Afghanistan of 8,200 tonnes in 2007 and 7,700 tonnes this year. These harvests represent 90% of the world's illicit opium production, with Helmand province, the centre of British military operations, accounting for more than half of the poppies grown. The agency says "alternative development" measures to persuade farmers to switch to other crops are having a very limited impact.

The EU is worried that these record harvests are threatening to bring to an end the "slowly improving" heroin situation in Britain and across Europe, and reverse the decline seen in heroin-related drug deaths. Seizures have doubled in Turkey, an important transit country, are up 10% up in Britain, and pockets of new injecting heroin users are appearing for the first time in recent years.

"Current evidence does not point to an epidemic growth in heroin problems as experienced by most of Europe in the 1990s," said the EU drugs agency director, Wolfgang Gotz. "Nonetheless, we cannot ignore the threat posed by the glut of heroin now available on the world market, the concerns raised by indicators of heroin use, or signs that synthetic opiates may be a growing problem. Vigilance is clearly required."

Britain's continuing position at top of the league table of 27 EU countries for cocaine abuse is based on the fact that 12.7% of young adults aged 15 to 34 have used the drug. Typical cocaine users in Britain are now just as likely to be poor working class young men as wealthy city traders. The latest school surveys show that 5% of teenagers aged 15 and 16 have tried the drug.

Cocaine use in Europe is concentrated in only a few countries. Use is highest in Britain and Spain but has stabilised in both countries in recent years at a level similar to that seen in the US. The increasing number of Europeans using the drug – an estimated 4 million last year - reflects its recent growth in Italy, Denmark and Ireland. The increasing popularity of cocaine has been matched by declining use of cannabis.

There is however some encouraging news about cannabis consumption in Britain. While the UK consistently had the highest levels of cannabis use among school children in the early and mid 1990s, in this European survey it has seen the sharpest decline in popularity of any EU country.

Britain is now fourth in the European league table for cannabis use amongst 15- to 24-year-olds, with 39.5% saying they have tried it and 12% saying they have used it in the last month.

The European drugs experts say domestic herbal cannabis production is no longer marginal in some EU countries, including Britain, with 2.3 million cannabis plants seized last year in Europe.

The most recent Eurobarometer poll on the subject shows increasing support for decriminalisation of cannabis, with 31% of Europeans backing the idea



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PRISON DRUG CRISIS IS 'OUT OF CONTROL'
Sunday Mirror,  Jun 8, 2008  by JUSTIN PENROSE
E-mail Print Link PRISONS are in the grip of an uncontrollable drugs crisis, according to a devastating report compiled by Britain's probation officers.

Their evidence flies in the face of Government claims that inmates are using fewer drugs.

The shocking report says:

PEOPLE being sent back to jail ask for specific prisons where they know drugs are easy to get.

DRUG dealers are actually breaking into jails to sell their goods.

GOVERNORS fiddle the results of drug tests to show they are on top of the problem.

CONVICTS buy "clean" urine samples from non-drug users to get them through tests.

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Building Your Brand With Brand Line Extensions And the report by the National Association of Probation Officers - Napo - concludes that heroin, cocaine and cannabis are "rife" in jails with staff unable to control the supply.

Insiders quoted in the report accuse governors of doctoring the figures of those failing tests to make it seem the problem is under control.

Official figures from Prisons Minister David Hanson in March showed that random positive drug tests had decreased by 64 per cent over recent years. But a former prison governor told Napo that samples of known users were often not sent for testing or were contaminated.

"It was also reported that urine samples were regularly exchanged between prisoners," the report says.

Prisoners in London often ask to be sent to Wandsworth Prison because it has a better supply of drugs. The report added: "Hostel staff say prisoners being recalled were expressing a preference to be returned to Wandsworth because they were able to get any drugs they wanted at the end of the corridor."

Prices of heroin, cocaine and marijuana are actually cheaper inside jails than on the streets.

Brian Caton, General Secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, said: "There is a huge drugs problem in prisons and the Government have known that since they came into power.

Harry Fletcher from Napo said: "It's abundantly clear drugs are rife inside jails."

But David Hanson said: "This report is remarkably illinformed.

All evidence points towards a huge reduction of drug use in prison."


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ugly and fugly britain


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War on litter to rid city of rats
A crackdown on rubbish is being launched in Leicester to try to rid the city of rats.
The city council received about 4,000 calls about rats and mice last year and has closed 40 food outlets in the past 10 months because of rodents.

Posters featuring giant rats are being put up around the city to warn people against dropping rubbish.

The two-week poster campaign also warns people they face £50 fines for littering in the city.


Malcolm Grange, head of environmental health, said: "Rats are one of the most serious rodent pests in the world, carrying diseases such as leptospirosis, salmonellosis and campylobacter.

"Rats eat food debris from the floor and rubbish that is not placed into sealed bins, so it is important to encourage everyone to do their bit to keep pests like this at bay by putting their litter in a bin

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