I'm a total ICQ novice, as you can tell, and I'm curious to know what happened here. Is that possible? Did I miss a 'broadcast me' setting in the ICQ preferences or something?

How the hell did I get on this guy's contact list? He says I just 'showed up'. D ublin-based Hotline.ie discovered the repositories of child pornography following a tip-off. I presume I might be in his address book as well. AN Irish web service has uncovered over 900 links to child pornography 'cyberlockers' on the internet. The only evidence that I even know him is that his email address (which is the one linked to his ICQ profile, btw) is in my Yahoo mail address book. He says that I showed up on his contact list one day and so he decided to shoot me off a message. It was just a 'Hey, is that you? It's me' message. So, I was pretty surprised when I discovered one day a message for me from some guy whom I knew slightly about six months ago. I've never actually used it to send or receive a message. I don't know why I bother with ICQ anyway - I guess only so that if someone here wants to contact me they can. Mr Durrant said 90pc of all illegal content reported is removed from the internet within 72 hours.A couple weeks ago after my latest format/reinstallation of XP I got around to installing ICQ again. However, last year, Hotline.ie tracked more cases of child-abuse content to Ireland than to Britain, Germany or France. So far this year, the number of confirmed Irish cases has risen to seven, said Mr Durrant.Īccurately tracking the illegal content to individual machines or services is difficult to do because of cloud computer technology. Last year, the organisation tracked 96 incidences of child sexual abuse online, with four traced to Ireland.

Hotline.ie, which relies on members of the public to report suspected incidences of child sex abuse content online, has seen an increase in child pornography traced to Irish sources this year. Police in Taiwan are now investigating the origin of the 'cyberlockers' or file-sharing folders. In total, 928 links were discovered, some originating in internet chat rooms, according to Paul Durrant, director of Hotline.ie.Ī joint operation by the Irish organisation and its Taiwanese counterpart has seen the offensive material removed. The material, which contains images and videos of children thought to be of varying nationalities, has been traced to Taiwanese web servers. AN Irish web service has uncovered over 900 links to child pornography 'cyberlockers' on the internet.ĭublin-based Hotline.ie discovered the repositories of child pornography following a tip-off from an Irish internet user in June.

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