Forensics Software for Detecting Online Paedophile Activity
James Walkerdine, Philip Greenwood, Awais Rashid, Paul Rayson, Corinne May‐Chahal, Penny Duquenoy, Patrick Watson, M. Jones, Margaret Brennan · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) · 2009
Recent years have seen a rapid rise in the number and use of online social networks.Such social networks vary in nature from chat systems, for example, MSN, Skype and IRC, to online communities, such as, MySpace and YouTube, through to file sharing systems, for instance, peer-topeer networks: Gnutella, BitTorrent, FastTrack, etc. Amongst the many types of 'risk' on the internet as mentioned in the Byron review in the UK and Internet Safety Technical Task Force in the US, these social networks pose two significant risks in terms of child exploitation.