His team of engineers is testing ten different ones now and hopes to check out at least two dozen other software packages to find the best one. But when they are done with their own sites, there will be plenty others out there to target, Ashe said. Email addresses of children and adults lifted from newsgroup postings or picked up from cookies. The lists are bought, then used to often solicit for extremely violent and illegal forms of porn, Ashe said. Porn sites also play dirty tricks on the search engines.
Theft is also a huge problem.
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