From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Operation Pin
Operation Pin
Operation Pin is an initiative of the Virtual Global Task- have committed a crime. They will also be given details
force, which consists of UK’s National Crime Squad, the of appropriate helplines. It is unclear if the information
FBI, Interpol, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the recorded will be technical (for example, an IP address) or
Australian Hi-Tech Crime Centre / Australian Federal Po- personal (for example, credit card details).
lice (AFP). Its stated aim is to identify pedophiles and The stated purpose of Operation Pin is to cause peo-
other people who are using the internet to access child ple seeking out child pornography on the Internet to
pornography. Announced on 18 December 2003, the op- wonder whether they will find an illegal site or one oper-
eration is said to involve the creation and operation of ated by law enforcement agencies. It can thus be under-
a number of websites (so-called "honeypots") purporting stood as a kind of deterrence.
to offer illegal images. While these websites will not con-
tain child pornography images, they will be designed to
look like the real thing so as to ensnare as many offend-
External links
ers as possible. • Online dragnet to thwart paedophiles BBC News,
The websites will present visitors with a variety of December 18, 2003
options which, instead of leading to illegal images, lead • Police to trap online paedophiles BBC news,
to a law enforcement site that will inform them that December 18, 2003
their personal details have been recorded and that they
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