First we saw prepaid calling cards, prepaid cell phones, and prepaid Visa cards for immigrants, those with poor credit ratings, or folks concerned about anonymity. Now the forces of the free market have given us prepaid porn cards too... -Declan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Prepaid Porn scratch cards hit bodegas in NYC Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:04:50 -0600 From: Burt,David <david_burt@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> *New York** Daily News - * *http://www.nydailynews.com/02-21-2005/city_life/tech/v-pfriendly/story/283349p-242717c.html* *Porn sting X-poses vendors* By TRACY CONNOR DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005 Prepaid cards that unlock one of the raunchiest X-rated sites on the Internet are being peddled by bodegas and newsstands across the city - even to underage kids, the Daily News has learned. The so-called PPP cards cost $5 to $50, and work similar to prepaid telephone cards. Each one has a scratchoff number that buyers can use to cloak themselves in virtual anonymity when they log on to a Web site filled with hard-core pornography. Since it's illegal to sell smut to minors, the cards are printed with an 18-and-over warning - but an investigation by The News revealed that some merchants are willing to sell them to youngsters. [...] *David Burt* Public Relations Manager *Secure Computing® * /Securing connections between people, applications, and networks™/ www.securecomputing.com <http://www.securecomputing.com/> NASDAQ: SCUR 1-206-892-1130 (Direct Phone) 1-800-971-2622 (Main Phone) 1-206-683-9508 (Mobile Phone) 1-206-834-1788 (Fax) David_Burt@private <mailto:David_Burt@private> * * *Secure Computing Corporation, Seattle Office* 900 Fourth Avenue, Suite 3600 Seattle, WA 98164 USA _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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