If you’re seeking smut, you only need go as far at present as the leafy green home pages of West Wittering Parish Council. Or there's Worcestershire County Council’s Healthy Schools Forum which, in an area dedicated to "internet safety", advises visitors on where to find "sexy escorts", before inviting them into a chat room to talk with "sexy girls".A quick clarification for readers here in the colonies, "council" refers to the local government in the UK, which is typically much bigger than city governments here on our side of the pond.
It's a pretty interesting story, and highlights how the Bad Guys adapt to changing defenses - in this case, to "web filtering" which blocks access to some of the seamier parts of Al Gore's Intarwebz:
If some of the forum counts are to be believed, these posts – over 1,000 related to porn alone - were being actively browsed. West Wittering’s innocuous little website had been infiltrated and was now host to an international porn business.
Why? Because as filtering becomes cleverer, those behind such business have almost certainly calculated that sheltering behind a ".gov.uk" designation may keep them safer for longer than if they stay public.
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