WileyProfessional

Hi there u/mbt20 - I am in the USA and we do catch pedophiles but we follow strict rules in doing so. We do not make believe we are a 13 year old child to entrap them - we try and locate them using open source resources and find out who they are. If we interact it is with those who have already committed a crime not trying to entice them to commit a crime.

Either way our goal is to stop them from hurting children and spreading child abuse material.

Chris

u/mpcampbell i have so many failures its not even funny. HA. Ok so let me think of one in particular.

Well there was this one time i was going to try and get info from a target but I approached him too aggressively and i startled him badly. He literally fell back in his seat and the chair tipped over. Out of fear he was hurt i ran around to lift his chair and ended up putting too much force and flung him face first into the floor and another seat.

He thought i was beating him up and started yelling and a bunch of people ran to his aid. regardless I failed really bad on that one.

I let excitement and nerves get the best of me.

LOL

Chris

ohhhh u/R0u53_ this is a wonderful question.

There are a few steps.

1. First and foremost - talk to your kids. Explain to them in age appropriate conversation, the dangers out there and help them to see how you want to help them
2. Ensure them they will have freedom and privacy, as they need that.
3. Then monitor them openly. A parent would never give their child the keys to a car and say "teach yourself to drive" so you can't hand them a phone and say "Stay safe online". Get involved, stay involved and you may keep them safe.

There are a lot of apps you can use to monitor your kids and help them stay safe.

u/IZiOstra nice question! Phishing the biggest risk right now, then vishing (voice phishing). They are using social media to get details on you and breach data, then using those details to attack. It is a scary world out there right now.

Chris

u/Levitannin we have created technology to hunt pineapple pizza eaters. It is pretty bad to be honest.

Kidding.

We do not use machine learning or AI for predator hunting. Mainly because of what we are doing - we find people who have already committed crimes against children and then we unmask them when they try to hide online and that is all manual work.

We do use some tools in the SE side, but mostly it is a very human centric work.

Chris