"FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects"

What do you think about this:

The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them.

Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of homes in Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada last year. The supposed video files actually were gibberish and contained no illegal images.

The full story is here.

Comments

[Windypundit]

I wouldn't worry. There's no way this could possibly go wrong.

[Aaron]

From what I've seen posted elsewhere, you got to this story first. The lack of discussion here perhaps suggests the power of a linkback (or its absence).

I'm glad my neighbor wasn't visiting that site....

[Mike]

A couple of other blogs (Simple Justice, Windypundit, Norm's) discussed it on their own blogs rather than comments here.

One thing weird: I got about 100,000 hits from the Motari post. How many people commented? Maybe 300 or so?

It takes a lot of hits to get any comments. Even Volok's (which gets, I think, 25,000 or more readers daily) rarely gets past 100 comments - and that's often two guys going back-and-forth.

Also, a high ratio of readers are bloggers. I suppose there's a signal-to-noise ratio joke to be made; but I'm too tired to think it through.