MySpace Predator Caught by Code / Wired, 16 Oct 2006

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71948-0.html?tw=wn_index_5
Kevin Poulsen
"I wrote a 1,000-line Perl script that checked MySpace for registered sex offenders. Sifting through the results, manually confirmed over 700 offenders, including a serial child molester in New York actively trying to hook up with underage boys on the site, and who has now been arrested as a result. MySpace told Congress last June that it didn't have this capability." Wired News says they will publish Poulsen's code under an open-source license later this week. "