Dr. Lorandos discusses defense strategy in cases involving an internet sting

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Dr. Lorandos discusses defense strategy in cases involving an internet sting

At http://www.falsely-accused.net/ we explain that Internet Stings are the new "Crime de Jour"

Lets Start With a Brief History of the Internet

At http://www.falsely-accused.net/ we explain that the concepts that led to the development of the Internet can be traced back almost 40 years to academic papers written in the early 1960s on what was called "packet-switching" networks. In 1969 these ideas matured into a working proto-type network called ARPANET.

Although this network had only four "nodes" or computers connected to it, it was the forerunner of today's Internet.
In 1971, 15 universities and research institutes were connected together, and the system was upgraded to handle a seemingly large 64-node network. In 1973 the first European computers were connected in England and Norway.
Meanwhile the key technologies of the internet, telnet, ftp, and Unix were being invented in the early 1970s. Ethernet (invented by Bob Metcalf, who founded 3Com) would later become the standard for local area networks, or LANs. Telnet allowed remote interactive access to other computers. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) enabled the transfer of large data files over the network. Unix, invented appropriately enough by the "phone company" (Bell Labs) and enhanced at UC Berkeley, became the software backbone of the Internet. Later Sun Microsystems commercialized Unix.

At http://www.falsely-accused.net/ we explain that the dominant use of the Internet in the 1970s was an early version of email. In 1979 Usenet was invented to carry discussion forums, a primitive form of today's chat rooms. This was the beginning of the more public side of the Internet, as contrasted to private email and telnet sessions. Usenet would later grow to its present volume of more than 10,000 separate topic areas and more than hundreds of gigabytes of data. Thats the equivalent information of a large public library that is accessed every day. Sexual topics quickly became the largest single volume area of Usenet. Communication and discussion of human sexuality has continued to be an important use of the Internet to this day.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the Internet grew exponentially: the number of hosts in 1974 was 1000, in 1987 10,000, in 1989 100,000, 1992 the number of hosts, or computers with permanent IP addresses, surpassed the one million mark and its well beyond that today. This doesn't even count the millions of people who dial into the Internet via modems.
In 1993, Mosaic, the precursor of the Netscape browser, took the world by storm and gave birth to what is now known as the World Wide Web. And the rest, as they say, is history. Today the Internet links more than 170 countries worldwide, with over 1.5 million domain names, and over 40 million hosts. Underscoring the new central role of the Internet in American life--and indeed the entire world, a three-judge Federal panel in Philadelphia in June of 1996 called the Internet "the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country and indeed the world has ever seen."

However, as popular as the internet has become, some distorted misconcepts have developed around its use.

At http://www.falsely-accused.net/ we explain that because of the Internet's participatory nature and society's interest in sexual topics, the Police and the general public have mistakenly begun to look at the Internet as a vast playground for adults who are attempting to sexually prey on children. While there can be thousands of actual acts of sexual molestation each day across the nation within family households, the perceived Internet "molestation" becomes a media circus that ends up terrorizing parents and yet there is only a few instances by comparison compared to those molestations that occur every day within family households. These "alleged internet predators" cause parents to become afraid of nameless, faceless, phantoms. More are afraid of these phantoms than they are of real live family members who statistically pose a far greater threat to their children.

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