The spooks at FBI are now using a “novel” tactic to snare paedos: put up fake hyperlinks advertising child porn, and then track down who clicks on them through their IP addresses.
A screenshot of the now-defunct website where Special Agent Wade Luders posted hyperlinks that he advertised as pointing to child porno. Instead, they pointed to a covert FBI computer in San Jose, California.
This method raises several questions, one of them being entrapment. In this sense, this tactic is not “novel” at all: supermarkets have been implicitly “trapping” grocery shoppers for ages, using a similar technique employed by Special Agent Luders.
