About Chatmag Sections Advertising Information Contents Topic Index Guide IRC Introduction Introduction What is IRC? IRC Software Installing IRC Software IRC Tutorial mIRC Basics Article Connecting to an IRC Network Making Smileys :) Etiquette Internet Based Web Based Networks Internet Safety Safety Kids Safety' Handling Abusers Meeting in Person Relocating "Posers" Safety Articles Internet Scams AskMSN Online and Real Life Relationships by Caryl Safety Software Black Ice Defender News Find out the latest in chat related issues. Information for Operators and Internet Service Providers. Add Your Listing to Chatmag	Chat Network Operators and Users Wary of "Uniformed" Police Presence. 28 June 2004 Chatmag News.  By Peter J. Carr, Publisher Chatmag.com The recent proposal outlined by The U.K.'s National Crime Squad (NCS) to monitor Internet chat rooms is not a workable solution, according to Internet chat network owners and administrators.  In their statement of 9 June, 2004 the NCS stated that "Uniformed Officers" will enter certain chat rooms, primarily those chat rooms frequented by adults seeking underage children, and have an icon attached to their nickname to identify themselves as law enforcement officers.  The F.B.I. is also named as one of the agencies participating in this proposal. For the Full Story, Click Here. SPEWS No Longer Anonymous. How did Chatmag, an Internet Chat Directory, become involved with SPEWS, the Internet equivalent of school yard bullies? In early May 2003 we had joined forces with IRC/Unity, a group of IRC Server Administrators dedicated to fighting the Fizzer Worm (See story of 18 May 2003).  One of our emails posted to the IRC/Unity group had bounced with a notation that we were blacklisted by another Blacklist, that uses the SPEWS database. Not knowing who or what SPEWS was, we investigated. On the SPEWS web site, we found a link to a Usenet group, operated by SPEWS, which is the only contact for SPEWS, (their domain name information has been falsified) and posted a notice that we had been unfairly blacklisted by SPEWS. For the Full Story, Click Here Vigilante Web Site Perverted-Justice.com The web site Perverted-Justice.com which purports to "out" predators of underage children hampers law enforcement efforts to track down online predators.  The operators of Perverted-Justice cruise the chat rooms generally in Yahoo! Romance Chat, seeking victims to identify on their site.  Operators private message chat room participants, enticing them to engage in a sexual conversation with the operator posing as an underage child.  The Perverted-Justice operator coerces the chatter to divulge their telephone number, and provide the operator with a photograph. For the Full Story, Click Here.
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