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Police using MySpace

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Buckeye513

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http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_011133721.html
Stoughton police say they used the popular teenage website, myspace.com, to help solve a widespread vandalism spree. Three teenagers are currently under arrest and facing charges in the spree which cost an estimated $75,000 in damages.

18-year-old Charles Diggs has been charged with 28 counts of tagging property and 11 counts of malicious damage of more than $250; Eric Tankerly, 17, has been charged with 17 counts of tagging and 11 counts of malicious damage of more than $250; and Raymond Lacasse, 18, has been charged with 14 counts of tagging.

Investigators found the suspects after searching myspace.com, a web site where users often post personal information and photographs. The suspects' names were not listed on the site but the officers were able to track them down by their tagging signs and by investigating a group called "Graffiti Artists."

Police say two of the suspects have been forthcoming with information and have contacted some of the victims to arrange for restitution.
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Clever.
 
I've been reading that employers search facebook profiles now also. I've been trying to warn people. Everyone in college makes thier profile all drunk/ naked obsessed. Too many people can get access to those things, and it'll eventually come back to haunt you.
 
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how does that work for facebook? Is that just for the people who make their profile visible to everyone?

I thought facebook allowed me to keep my profile fairly private unless I added them as my friend.
 
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EDIT: Here is an article on it http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060119-6016.html

jwinslow said:
how does that work for facebook? Is that just for the people who make their profile visible to everyone?

I thought facebook allowed me to keep my profile fairly private unless I added them as my friend.
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I'm not that sure either actually. I just heard about it on the news the other day, maybe they just hire like a hot girl for a low price to add people as friends and sell out thier info? Seems kind of far-fetched unless its a really big company, but they have some way to apparntly.
 
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060119-6016.html


When Pennsylvania State University's resurgent football team scored a victory last October against its archrival from Ohio State University, throngs of students rushed the field and set off something of a postgame riot. Overwhelmed, campus police had difficulty identifying the perpetrators and made only two arrests on game day.
But less than a week after the game, Tyrone Parham, the university's assistant director of police, got an unexpected tip: Several students had posted pictures online of their friends storming the field. Campus police officers logged onto Facebook, the immensely popular social-networking site, and found a student group titled, unsubtly enough, "I Rushed the Field After the OSU Game (And Lived!)"
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:rofl::rofl:
 
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