The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed

Australian police uncover a laptop filled with child pornography; Belgian investigators trace the videos to a Ukrainian studio where they were filmed; the studio owner reveals the e-mail addresses of 20,000 American clientsand the FBI uncovers the largest child porn ring in US history. The discovery of The Cache offers a disturbing portrait of how criminals operate onlineand how investigators have learned to respond. This is just one of the stories in The Internet Police, in which Nate Anderson gives readers a look at how the Internet was patrolled by Carnivore, the FBIs Internet wiretap tool; how the man behind the natural male enhancement pill Enzyte helped protect the privacy of e-mail and why a Russian spam king ended up in jail after a trip to Las Vegas. The Internet: borderless, anonymous, chaotic? Not any more. See more