| Group fears Net-enabled phones will spur child porn | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 08:46 PM | |||
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Operators rolling out 3G (third-generation) and GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) phone networks to support an expected avalanche of Internet-enabled devices are now being warned that they must put safeguards in place to prevent a spike in child pornography. | ||
| Officials currently use IP addresses as a means of tracking and identifying offenders but Carr fears that with the anticipated explosion in the number of Internet-enabled devices over the next few years, there will not be enough IP addresses in the current system to be able to track them all.
"If IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) was fully available, every grain of sand on the planet would have its own IP address, but as we all know, that hasn't happened yet," he said. Click here for the complete article. |
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