Times obtains Operation Ore child porn subscriber list
The UK Sunday Times has obtained the list of child pornography subscribers from Operation Ore (the Times site is by paid subscription only, so I’m quoting here from The Register).
The Sunday Times has obtained Operation Ore’s entire list of UK subscribers to child porn sites. Containing 7,272 names, the list includes ‘at least 20 senior executives’ and a ‘senior teacher at an exclusive girl’s public school, services personnel from at least five military bases, GPs, university academics and civil servants.”There’s more: a “famous newspaper columnist is named, along with a song writer for a legendary pop band and a member of another chart-topping 1980s cult pop group, along with an official with the Church of England.”
– The Register, Child porn list leaked to Sunday Times.
The Times lists a number of notable professions represented amongst the list, but there’s one notable ommission: law enforcement. Curious, given that nearly half of the 200 names initially obtained by UK investigators were police officers, and fifty of those had been arrested as of December.