[Nottingham] Considering the last talk...

[Richard Hodgson]

That would be *known* sex offenders, of course, and also completely ignores
the fact that population centres tend to be clustered, rather than
completely evenly spread out.

And we're not trying to convince you to secure your wireless; we've all said
that you're free to leave it open. We were just discussing what happens to
people who fail to secure their wireless networks, and are exploited by
criminals when they do so, and what happens when such activity over their
internet connection is reported to the police and they have to be
investigated as a potential suspect.

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 00:10, Sergiusz Pawlowicz <sergiusz at pawlowicz.name>wrote:

> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 00:02, Richard Hodgson <rich at dearinternet.com>
> wrote:
> > Rounding up, that's still one sick person out there, distributing illicit
> > images of children to... him or her self, presumably?
> > It's that, or these 'numbers' are as ridiculous as they sound.
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 23:39, Roger Light <roger at atchoo.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > 0.00000001% of society is sick
> >>
> >> I'm sure you were all wondering - that's 0.7 people in the whole world.
> >>
> >> Based on that number, leaving your wireless open sounds fine.
>
> OK, so I have found numbers [0]. There are ~1200 children sex
> offenders in the UK, it means one per 203 square kilometres. Let us
> say one tenth of them is related to production of images you are
> trying to convince me is essential to keep my wifi military protected.
> It gives one per 2000 square kilometres.
>
> S.
>
> [0]
> http://www.clusterweb.org.uk/UserFiles/KSCB/File/Resources_and_Library/MAPPA_The_1st_5_yrs_01-06.pdf
>
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