Florida Cybercrimes: See how ludicrous this thing is?

I stole this blog’s title from the ending thought Alex Eckelberry (someone who understands the interweb) left on his latest blog entry. He gives a solid overview of the current retardedness being shown by law enforcement (people who don’t understand “that interweb thingy”). The last big story like this was the Julie Amero case. Just like in Julie’s case, John Nohejl is being fed to the wolves over total BS.

Kevin Poulsen (he really understands the interwebs, too) explains:
Gulf Middle School resource officer John Nohejl didn’t have porn on his MySpace profile, and he didn’t link to porn. But one of the 170-odd people on his friends list, which seems mostly populated by students at his school, had a link to a legal adult site. Now the New Port Richey Police Department and the Florida attorney general’s elite cyber crimes unit are investigating him for making adult content available to underage children.
Source: Wired.com

Shortly after this story broke, a link going to gay porn was found on the school’s website! The great thing about this is that the school has FULL control over the content of their website. John Nohejl on the other hand has zero control over the content on his friend’s MySpace pages. Who’s the screw-up now?

Alex ended his blog entry with some nice bait:
At least one thing is heartening — the good folks over at the Florida Cybercrimes unit have their own MySpace page. They may quickly see how ludicrious this whole thing is.

Well, I took the bait. After a good ten minutes of looking over the profile of this “elite” cybercrimes task force that’s actively investigating John Nohejl’s MySpace I found the following…

Being the interweb gods that they are, they used code from a third party website to pimp out (add style / graphics) to their profile. Included in that code was five troublesome links they didn’t remove. All five links are promoting two “MySpace page pimping” sites which as a whole are known to be breeding grounds for all sorts of evilness. The two in question here are actively promoting several sites known to distribute adware.

Here’s one button and two text links going to those sites:

Another banner ad:

And, another:

So… Besides having a hideously ugly MySpace page full of broken code, they are sending kids to sites that promote adware. After seeing that, I dug into their friend list to give them a taste of the exact same BS being served to John Nohejl. Here’s what I found on their friends’ pages…

Promotion of some funky head shop “legal weed”:

via this friend.

That same friend has a banner in her comments promoting a site which is known “to steal your MySpace username and password by posing as a profile tracker“. In fact, several friends of theirs have the same thing on their pages. Nice!

Another friend of theirs seems to be a lost cause. That page has links to phishing pages and all sorts of other evil stuff. Those email addresses spammed in the comments… Yeah, those will lure you to sites with boobies all over the place if you dare message them.

Go dig for yourself, there’s plenty of double standard to be found in them hills ;-)

Seeing these eTards go after this cop sure reminds me of someone…

I’m sure these experts are just as ninja at the interwebs as the jackass pictured above.