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Originally Posted by baddog
So you make up scenarios and avoid doing anything because someone might do something.
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I don't make up scenarios. Rather, I apply existing scenarios to this situation.
On 4chan, a while back, it was pretty popular to trick people into searching for "lolita" on a site which then produced a page that their illegal search had been recorded and that their information had been passed on to the FBI. At first, it was simply done by telling them to search for that site, later on people switched to url masking.
When honeypot links for the FBI were first mentioned in the news, quite a while back, there were hundreds of threads on 4chan hypothesizing about how best to find them and trick people into visiting them.
Some parts of the internet are filled with people who would consider it the ultimate prank to get a random stranger arrested for supposedly trying to download cp.
In cases like this, you HAVE to be aware of the fact that there are people out there who will abuse this if possible.
Just a few weeks ago, a kid got arrested over here for using his neighbors' unsecured wireless network to announce a school shooting. It was a "prank", of course. Had he known more about technology, his neighbors would be sitting in prison now because of his prank.