Italy adopts Microsoft anti-pedophilia tool
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Italy, my country, is the first european state to adopt Microsoft Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS), launched in 2005 and offered for free to worldwide governments.
CETS will be used by our police department dedicated to online crimes, the Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni.
CETS offers a national repository, powered by Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server, where investigators can register suspected online identities, upload child exploitations images, link suspicious web sites, store seized emails, etc.
It then syncronizes informations with other national databases in adhering countries.
Efficacy of the tool is actually limited because apart Italy only Canada and Indonesia are using it.
US, Japan and Australia are evaluating CETS adoption, but until more countries will share informations on the system there are few chances to improve tracking capabilities.
It also worth to consider that masquerading an online identity is not too complex and these sexual criminals are used to computer technologies. Their level of know-how is surely improving fast, to adapt new countermisures and tools like CETS could be useless in few years.
Right in these days Microsoft is expanding its offering for defending children and launched a parental control tool called OneCare Family Safety.
CETS will be used by our police department dedicated to online crimes, the Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni.
CETS offers a national repository, powered by Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server, where investigators can register suspected online identities, upload child exploitations images, link suspicious web sites, store seized emails, etc.
It then syncronizes informations with other national databases in adhering countries.
Efficacy of the tool is actually limited because apart Italy only Canada and Indonesia are using it.
US, Japan and Australia are evaluating CETS adoption, but until more countries will share informations on the system there are few chances to improve tracking capabilities.
It also worth to consider that masquerading an online identity is not too complex and these sexual criminals are used to computer technologies. Their level of know-how is surely improving fast, to adapt new countermisures and tools like CETS could be useless in few years.
Right in these days Microsoft is expanding its offering for defending children and launched a parental control tool called OneCare Family Safety.
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