Sweden's police force this weekend criticised Microsoft for taking way too long to shut down a kiddie porn site hosted by MSN.
Published:
9 January 2001 y., Tuesday
MSN Nordic head Lars Backhans was quick to express his disgust at the contents of the site. "It's absolutely awful. We have no tolerance for that kind of content," he told Reuters on Saturday.
Quite right too, but the fact remains that Swedish police notified the company of the offending site on 26 December 2000, but MSN only pulled it from the Web on Friday.
Backhans blamed the delay on the holiday period and by the time it takes to locate and save the offending site's Web log. Both would be reasonable excuses in any other case, but with a kiddie porn site, we would have expected Microsoft to act with a little more alacrity.
The MSN chief also offered the service's full co-operation with police to help track down the site's creator, though we note that that doesn't include handing over said Web logs, for which Sweden's Finest will have to make an official request, according to Backhans.
Šaltinis:
theregister.co.uk
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
Software company announced new structure_ of it_s business.
more »
A bug associated with the Pentium 4 that delayed Intel's introduction of the chip by a month is still with us, but the company and PC makers have worked to contain the potential damage.
more »
Information about Baltic States’ and Finland’s roads to be available on the Internet
more »
Electronic money will be made legal tender in Singapore by the year 2008
more »
search.lt presents newest links
more »
Online news sites are turning to a novel way to make some extra cash: requiring fees for links.
more »
In a lab at the University of California at Berkeley, computer scientist John Kubiatowicz is designing a networking scheme that, in ten years, just might take over your life.
more »
search.lt presents newest links
more »
After the DDoS attacks on Yahoo!, eBay, and Amazon in February 2000, the German Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily founded a task force which in June published a catalog of defense measures against such hacker attacks.
more »
An anti-censorship group Peacefire has released a program which disables porn-filtering programs.
more »
search.lt presents newest links
more »