Using Nuisance Telephone Denial of Service to Combat Online Sex Trafficking
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Over the past few years, sex trafficking has been linked to online classified ads sites such as Craigslist.com and Backpage.com. However, to date technology-based solutions have not been used to attack classified ad sites or the advertisers. This paper proposes and tests a new approach to combating online sex trafficking promulgated via online classified ad sites – nuisance telephone denial of service (TDoS) attacks on the advertisers. The method of attack is described and implications are discussed. TYPE OF PAPER AND
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دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015