Americans recognise UK paedo-problem, even if Plod doesn’t.

The Slog: Word reaches me that the US state department is asking very searching questions about the UK’s role in multinational child-buggery. As with the FBI’s generally accurate information on London as a money-laundering hub, the bureau’s latest people trafficking report categorically fingers Britain as ‘an endpoint country for the international trafficking rings which exist in Europe.’ If this has been on the US radar for a while – and the American authorities have made the situation known to the current government, which they have BTW – then we’re left pondering why Camerlot-on-Cleggie flatly denies it. I mean, what possible motive could they have?

Our American cousins seem to be remarkably well informed. The news only broke yesterday about Islamic kid-pimping in Oxford, but a leaker reports, ‘Many of the girls in Oxford and elsewhere are deliberately trafficked to a different area to hide activity from police. If the kids report the crimes, these generally go to different regions making it hard for CPS to bring cases.’ Oddly enough, only last night I was debating with someone on the phone why the Islamic ring that hailed from Yorkshire was operating in Oxford.

I wonder, do we need a separate detective force in the UK along the lines of the group formed under the FBI’s greatest hero, Eliot Ness? Although to be honest, calling it The Untouchables could be sensitive for reasons of religion, depravity, police corruption and so forth.
Nothing very refined about the oil business. Following Monday’s revelation that the EC is closing in on unnamed oil giants (with a view to charging them on several counts of price-fixing and illegal profit manipulation via false crude price reporting) the boys and girls on the Naughty Step have been named. It turns out that the EC special plods raided Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Statoil. But in a highly significant move, the London offices of Platts, the world’s leading price reporting agency, were raided yesterday.
Step forward one whistle-blower: Total Oil’s French company snitched to the EC’s regulators last August, reporting that “several times a year, estimates of market prices on key [energy] indices … are out of line with our experience of the day”.
So then, that’s the stock markets, the gold price, the Libor rate, and the price of oil being fixed against us….as The Slog suggested quite some time ago.
The next illegal privacy invasion scandal to break? Some time ago, the diminutive Labour stalwart Tom Watson asserted that the next big scam re spying on us would be ISPs, the social networking sites, and hacks turning to pcs as opposed to phones. Tom has since retreated to the Batcave, but his prediction is looking good. I hear from some bloggers, for instance, that certain suits and frocks in the Desmond media empire have perfected a means of hacking Twitter in order to obtain addresses and phone numbers. Bragging is never a good idea Ducky, especially when you’re pissed.

Further to this and closely related, now that Microshit owns Skype, German giant Heise Security recently sent two test HTTPS URLs, one containing login information and one pointing to a private cloud-based file-sharing service. A few hours after their Skype messages, they observed the following in the server log:

65.52.100.214 – – [30/Apr/2013:19:28:32 +0200]
“HEAD /…/login.html?user=tbtest&password=geheim HTTP/1.1″

They received visits to each of the HTTPS URLs transmitted over Skype from an IP address registered to Microsoft in Redmond. URLs pointing to encrypted web pages frequently contain unique session data or other confidential information. HTTP URLs, by contrast, were not accessed. In visiting these pages, Microsoft made use of both the login information and the specially created URL for a private cloud-based file-sharing service. Which is, um, against the law.

Oh baby baby it’s a wild world….

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