Ranting to /dev/null

Very low tech goes very high tech (and gets busted)

The Seattle Times has an article about a recent sting operation there which has busted 104 "johns" and several dozen alleged prostitutes by using... Craigslist.

Yeah, apparently it's not just for apartment rentals. But this kind of thing is just more evidence that people think about the internet in ways do not comport with reality. The internet isn't a place where the law doesn't apply. It isn't really subject to privacy (laws or no). If you can't do something in the real world, you can't do it online either, and the fact that enforcement is only starting to catch up doesn't change the legal situation.