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Here’s an interesting story from New Scientist about an IT consultant’s one-man war against online pedophiles. He’s developed a program called ChatNannies. It creates spin-off applications called nanniebots, which pose as children initiating chatroom conversations. The nanniebots analyze responses from other chatroom participants and report anything suspicious. The inventor, Jim Wightman, claims that none of the 2,000 chatroom participants who have interacted with the nanniebots has caught them out so far. Story here.
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