How is Rupert Murdoch Like Dennis Hastert?

Answer: They both look the other way.

A recent article in Wired details how Kevin Poulsen caught a registered sex offender by scanning MySpace profiles.

MySpace Predator Caught by Code

...I've been invited here to witness the end-game of a police investigation that grew from 1,000 lines of computer code I wrote and executed some five months earlier. The automated script searched MySpace's 1 million-plus profiles for registered sex offenders -- and soon found one that was back on the prowl for seriously underage boys.

That's something that MySpace has said it cannot do...

This is reminiscent of another recent story about Dennis Hastert:

Ex-Aide to Foley Testifies on Warning

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — A longtime aide to former Representative Mark Foley testified before the House ethics committee for nearly five hours on Thursday, repeating under oath his account of having explicitly warned Speaker J. Dennis Hastert’s office at least three years ago that Mr. Foley should be told to keep his distance from Congressional pages.

The aide, Kirk Fordham, was the first sworn witness to appear before the bipartisan ethics panel, which is investigating whether any Republican leaders knew about Mr. Foley’s conduct, which was ultimately exposed in a series of sexually explicit exchanges with former pages, and whether anything was done about it...

So social responsibility is not a family value? posted by : Joseph j7uy5 | link | | |
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