Comments on: Behind the 'MySpace fugitive' capture

Law enforcement worked with MySpace and city to track wanted man to Philadelphia library.

[Fray9]

Wait..

Ok so this guy used aliases to avoid being found through traditional channels but used his real name on his myspace page?

Im just not seeing why they would have had to resort to finding him through the internet (arguably the hardest way to do it) by staking out the terminal he used when they already knew who he was and the crime wasnt internet-related.

[Tbdsamman]

Re: Wait..

How did they use the internet by staking out the terminal? They used the internet to find out that he accessed MySpace from a public library and staked out the library because they used the internet.

Secondly, the internet makes it much easier to track someone, you will leave a track, regardless of what you do on the internet, that you cannot remove, unlike the real world.

And finally, if someone commits a cyber-crime, police forces shouldn't be able to track them by real life tools? Doesn't make much sense this way or vice versa.

[gggg sssss]

Canadian clue

So in Canada they are creating software ( another revolving proxy server thingy ) ostensibly to allow Chinese dissidents to surf the web without fear of their local authorities. Looks like they will have a whole new business model - allowing cons, ex cons and soon to be cons to update MySpace anonimously. ROTLMAO