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Hookers are using the Internet to keep tabs on undercover cops
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Posted on 08/23/2004 12:26:45 PM PDT by esryle
CLAYTON, Mo. -- Hookers are using the Internet to keep tabs on undercover cops.
Police departments have used computers for years, but now the oldest profession is going high-tech.
St. Louis County vice-squad commander Rick Battelle said he was shocked to find his cell-phone number listed on a hookers-only Web site. Undercover police use mobile phones to set up sting operations. But some of those phone numbers were listed in the database.
The hookers' computer files also included the names used by undercover officers and details about their unmarked cars. St. Louis area officers discovered the hookers' Internet database on the laptop of a woman busted for prostitution.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: activistsupremecourt; cellphones; consentingadults; doublestandard; educatedhookers; entrapment; internet; itsjustsex; poweroftheinternet; privacylaws; prostitution; sexlaws; sexworkers; stingoperation; stlouis; undercovercops; vicesquad; waronsex; webcaminadonutshop
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:26:45 PM PDT
by
esryle
To: esryle
Them hobots
are smart gals!
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:34:05 PM PDT
by
sonofatpatcher2
(Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: esryle
Start contracting out the undercover work...
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:35:14 PM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: esryle
Wonder if they found any other phone numbers in there...oh say, Bill Clinton?
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:35:40 PM PDT
by
big'ol_freeper
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."-Pope JPII)
To: esryle
St. Louis area officers discovered the hookers' Internet database on the laptop of a woman busted for prostitution. The hookers need to use (better) encryption.
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:37:15 PM PDT
by
kevkrom
(My handle is "kevkrom", and I approved this post.)
To: esryle
It's a good thing prostitution is illegal, otherwise this wouldn't have happened. < /sarcasm >
To: sonofatpatcher2
Hookers are using the Internet to keep tabs on undercover cops. They have a webcam installed at a donut shop.
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posted on
08/23/2004 2:11:18 PM PDT
by
weegee
(YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The socialists in the vice squad would rather they give it away.
I thought that the Supreme Court struck down sex laws for activity that occurred between consenting adults (and we now know that those same protections extend to minors-with-minors and minors-with-adults).
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posted on
08/23/2004 2:16:33 PM PDT
by
weegee
(YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
To: joesnuffy
This was bound to happen when women IT workers got laid off and their jobs outsourced to India.
A new trend, nethooking.
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posted on
08/23/2004 2:20:31 PM PDT
by
weegee
(YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
To: kevkrom
St. Louis area officers discovered the hookers' Internet database on the laptop of a woman busted for prostitution. Some jokes just write themselves....
The hookers need to use (better) encryption.
Encrabtion?
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posted on
08/23/2004 2:21:54 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: joesnuffy
That would be illegal, as well it should be.
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posted on
08/23/2004 2:25:23 PM PDT
by
kms61
To: kevkrom; aculeus; dighton; Lijahsbubbe; Constitution Day; Tijeras_Slim; In_25_words_or_less; ...
St. Louis area officers discovered the hookers' Internet database on the laptop of a woman busted for prostitution. That must have been some tip.
To: Thinkin' Gal
laptop of a woman busted
Hmmmmmm
To: Thinkin' Gal
That must have been some tip.Reminds me of what the leper said to the prostitute, "Just keep the tip".
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posted on
08/23/2004 5:54:42 PM PDT
by
Lawgvr1955
(Kerry: Like Gruber from McHale's Navy TV - Always after a Purple Heart)
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