The other day I was watching a documentry about scotland yard (british police force) and how their main concern was not normal criminal activities but computer related crimes. This got me to thinking that the best thing for them to do would be to assemble profiles on all known "hackers" so that if a computer crime of note were to take place the chances of finding the indivigual or group responsible would be drastically increased.

Imagine for a moment that a government opened a website/BBS and led people to asume that they were "hackers" (like this hasn't happened before). When you join this online community you are asked to fill in information so that "other users" may know that because of the information you specified in your profile form, are the person to ask about unix. They may even learn from the posts that you like working with software from a certain auther etc.

All in all they could build up a pretty good picture or signiture of all persons belonging to their online club.

NB : THIS IS NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY, ITS JUST A THOUGHT

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