FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects

http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9899151-38.html

Here's where you might use MIS concepts for legality reasons. Apparently, the FBI has been deliberately going undercover to nab some of these offenders by observing who click these links for what is supposed to be outright illegal content when instead they end up getting their information collected by the FBI, who analyzes for the suspect's IP address (see chapter 5) and reports to their internet service provider for more information about the suspect. This article points out how the FBI used this hyperlink technique to catch a professor in the act of surfing the web for child-pornography.

I think this information system the FBI could be further improved if they could gather more hard evidence and weed out the curious from the actual suspects. That way only those who really go through the Internet looking for such content are more likely to be caught and those who are just plain curious when they see articles like these aren't the ones being accused of the same crimes as these true offenders are. All you have to do is click these fake hyperlinks and you become one of the FBI's suspects... The next wave of fake hyperlinks might come from the RIAA to catch pirates or even the government if they have the incentives to start up such investigations...