The skinny:

1. Some eTards decided to harass Officer John Nohej for having a MySpace friend who linked to adult content when he was simply trying to reach out to kids at the middle school he is assigned to.

2. Hilarity ensues as netizens rip the eTards apart for this retardedness. The school he works at? They had a link to a domain parking page from a belly up clip art site they linked to. What ads were splashed across that domain parking page? Gay porn, seriously. It got worse for them when I pointed out that the technology-challenged “elite cyber crimes task force” investigating Officer Nohej is guilty of all sorts of stuff that also doesn’t matter on MySpace.

3. In their infinite wisdom, they decided to (screw up while trying to) hide their own “misdeeds”…

Their friend list from a few days back:

Their friend list and comments now:

What the hell?

They ran to another third party site and got code to hide their friend list and comments. And, once again… they didn’t remove the extra code included which links to a site pushing adware:

What kind of places does that site link to?

Yuppers, the ad network that site does business with serves up a ton of Zango banners. Nice.

I think it’s time for this “elite” interweb task force to go ahead and ask one of the kids they are supposedly protecting to help them out with their MySpace.

Update:
They went ahead and deleted every comment from their MySpace page. lolz

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.

Just noticed the below internal message in my ePassporte account. Anyone have the scoop on this? It smells like BS to me. I imagine it was a processing fee issue and ePassporte felt MasterCard was getting more than their fair share. If this is a smear campaign based on something like that, ePassporte just screwed up big time. I smell a lawsuit brewing…

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From: Internal Notification
To: [Removed my ePassporte account name]
Received: Jan 10, 2008 2:41 PM PST
Subject: Important Notice about MasterCard Credit/Debit Load Cards

Dear Account Holder,

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For those of you that missed the insanely huge (over-publicized) story of MySpace filing suit against Scott Richter back in January, here’s a little pre-blog warm-up…

Step One:
Watch this video and bathe in the douche baggery that is Scott Richter, AKA: The Spam King…

Step Two:
Wonder to yourself how I managed to put bathe, douche, and one of the biggest shit bags on the internet into the same sentence without disrupting the space-time continuum.

Step Three through Twenty-Six:

Get that mental image of Doc Brown out of your head.

Step Twenty-Seven:
Go read or reread this old blog entry of mine about MySpace filing suit against Scott.

“Based on [MySpace’s] track record of unrelenting incompetence and boneheaded moves, I find it unlikely that they’re really ready for this war.”

My predictions in that blog entry have proven to be dead accurate so far.

Step Twenty-Eight:
Ponder the notion of me being a time traveler like George Bush to explain away my ability to predict the future.

All caught up? Good. Now, let me explain what all the legal mumbo jumbo in them there fancy legal documents actually means…

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