MySpace, their space

Our friend SanchoVilla the Public Defender Investigator has scooped Salon. Here's Sancho:

Myspace As An Investigation Tool

Excellent post, with visual aids showing how you can harness the power of the Internets to dig up all kinds of useful dirt.

And here's today's Salon:

MySpace or OurSpace? - School administrators and even cops are policing the social networking site. For teens used to living their lives online, that isn't fair.

"We patrol the Internet like we patrol the streets," officer James McNamee, a member of the Barrington, Ill., police department's Special Crimes Unit, says. "We'll go in on a MySpace or a Xanga, we'll pick out our area and we'll just start surfing it, checking it, seeing what's going on."

McNamee says the fact that police have only recently realized what a powerful tool social networking sites can be for investigative purposes may be what makes MySpace users feel the site is their own private realm...

Cops snooping on evidence of drug dealing and grafitti tagging - dude, that is so totally unfair!