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the message that the kiddie pornographers in America and across the world need to know (is) that we're going to continue to sit on the 'Net, and they need to pay attention, because the next chat line conversation they have might be with an investigator from my office, from the state police, from U.S. Customs.
-- New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco, on "Operation Rip Cord," a government "cybersting" operation which has identified more than 1,500 suspected child pornographers trading pictures or soliciting child sex over the Internet. From "Internet sting identifies 1,500 suspected child pornographers" in CNN.
SALON | Oct. 1, 1997