TY - GEN
T1 - Detecting pedophile activity in BitTorrent networks
AU - Rutgaizer, Moshe
AU - Shavitt, Yuval
AU - Vertman, Omer
AU - Zilberman, Noa
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The wide spread of Peer-to-Peer networks makes multimedia files available to users all around the world. However, Peer-to-Peer networks are often used to spread illegal material, while keeping the source of the data and the acquiring users anonymous. In this paper we analyze activity measurements in the BitTorrent network and examine child sex abuse activity through the Mininova web portal. We detect and characterize pedophilic material in the network, and also analyze different aspects of the abusers activity. We hope our results will help law enforcement teams detecting child molesters and tracking them down earlier.
AB - The wide spread of Peer-to-Peer networks makes multimedia files available to users all around the world. However, Peer-to-Peer networks are often used to spread illegal material, while keeping the source of the data and the acquiring users anonymous. In this paper we analyze activity measurements in the BitTorrent network and examine child sex abuse activity through the Mininova web portal. We detect and characterize pedophilic material in the network, and also analyze different aspects of the abusers activity. We hope our results will help law enforcement teams detecting child molesters and tracking them down earlier.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84859057444&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-28537-0_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-28537-0_11
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AN - SCOPUS:84859057444
SN - 9783642285363
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 106
EP - 115
BT - Passive and Active Measurement - 13th International Conference, PAM 2012, Proceedings
T2 - 13th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2012
Y2 - 12 March 2012 through 14 March 2012
ER -