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anonymous posting of photographs. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) (IWF, 2006)indicated that in 2006 photo-album websites accounted for 10.5% of all URLs reportedto law enforcement agencies and other hotlines, apparently containing potentially illegalchild abuse images. The IWF also noted a trend whereby commercial websites store theimage files on a remote website, some of which contain collections of elements of animage which, when assembled make up the whole image. When a person clicks on the‘parent’ commercial website to download images, the site collects the relevant pieces fromseparately hosted image stores and assembles them. The IWF (2006) noted that, “Theseimage ‘jigsaw’ stores might be able to evade removal and law enforcement investigation asthe images may not constitute potentially illegal content in their pre-assembled state”.Choo, Smith and McCusker (2007) have also suggested we are also likely to see enhancedmethods of exploiting wireless vulnerabilities, including drive-by subversion of wirelesshome routers through unauthorised access by mobile WiFi clients, making it more difficultto identify the downloading of abusive material. However, only home routers that are notprotected by access keys and network encryption are the ones most likely to be used in thisway. With the growth of WiMax (with much greater reach than WiFi) the same challengesfaced by private, unmonitored and anonymous access is compounded. We have also seen anincreased use of botmalware that aims to avoid detection by anti-virus software and thatallow a child’s computer to be controlled. There are also new payment systems in whichInternet international funds transfer instructions (IFTIs) and e-currencies continue togrow (eg, prepaid cards and smartcards which avoid some of the traceability of traditionalcredit-card transactions). In addition live sexual abuse videos can be streamed to Internetchatrooms, with the actual perpetrator responding in real time to commands from otherparticipants who are able to see the images.Since the Second World Congress we have seen increasing use of distributed networks, suchas peer-to-peer (p2p), which facilitate file sharing amongst users. Many studies show thata large amount of paedophile and harmful contents is distributed using p2p file exchangesystems, and that the volume of such exchanges is increasing (Taylor and Quayle, 2003;Waters, 2007). Mehta et al. (2002) examined 507 video files retrieved from the Gnutellanetwork using key words that were likely to be linked to a search for pornographic material.Their data suggested that while the availability of obscene or illegal video files constituted arelatively small percentage of the overall set, the ease with which the material was accessedand the sheer volume of data flowing through the network was seen as a cause for concern.Video files defined as paedophilic represented 3.7% of the sample, but as millions of fileswere exchanged this represented a sizeable number. These authors also monitored a website(Gnutellameter) which captures data exchanged in Gnutella and provides summaries ofkey words most commonly entered by users. They suggested that, “the most commonly32|Child Pornography and Sexual Exploitation of Children Online
searched for files on Gnutella are either copyright protected software, movies encodedin ‘divx’ format, and pornographic material, with a strong emphasis on both child andhebephilic (sexual attraction to pubescent adolescents) pornography”. In a similar veinGrabowski (2003) had noted that in February 2003, Palisade Systems collected 22 millionrequests and searches conducted on Gnutella over a 3-week period and randomly selected40,000 of these. They found that 42% of all requests monitored were for adult or childpornography. The presence of such content, and its very easy access, make the currentsituation particularly worrying for p2p users, in particular children. The MAPAP Projectlaunched a query of the key word ‘pthc’ (preteen hardcore) on June 10 2006 (MPAP, 2008).It obtained 48,488 file names containing this key word. Of these, 16,913 contained ageinformation (age followed by a number). There were more than 10,000 files claimingcontent with children 11 years and younger, 2500 with children 6 years and below andmore than 500 with children aged 2 years and below. The distribution can be seen in Figure1 below; these correspond to 64%, 14% and 3.5% of the total. This clearly indicates that thefocus was on children aged between 10 and 12 years and some younger, although it was notpossible to validate whether files actually contained illegal material.NumberAgeFigure 1. Cumulative distribution of files relating to age of childChild Pornography and Sexual Exploitation of Children Online |33
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