Probably the first case of its kind as a Dublin couple was sent an unsolicited message containing child pornography. After reporting the incident to the Gardaí their Xbox was confiscatedwhile the incident is currently under investigation.
Amy, her alias name for obvious reasons of the internet not knowing her real name told the Herald her mate phoned her that night when she was out doing something to tell her what had happened.
“When I got home and I saw it, I have to say, it was disgusting,” Amy commented. When she contacted MS, the company told her to just delete the message.
“I thought it was a horrible picture to see, so I got the guards involved. I explained the situation and they sent out two gardai to the house to have a look at it,” she said.
“I think it’s very, very disturbing to see something like that because there are children online every day,” Amy said. “There were two children in our house at the time.”
Microsoft could not comment on any aspects of the case but a spokesman has told the Herald that the Xbox Live community was a “self-policing” with a code of conduct. Will this be the one and only attack of this kind or will players need to be careful when receiving messages while playing online?
To those new to Xbox Live please be careful who you add to your friends list, as friends can send picture messages to you at any time, unless you turn the option of, which if you have kids in your home is highly suggested.
Do you think that MS need to better police their service? Please let us know by commenting below.
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Wow, now that is what I call major cool! LOL
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Nop the people added random friends it’s not MS’s fault
Shit happens…. MS has you agree to the content before you join id just laugh and delete the friend no brain’er lol
NO! This nation as well as others needs to stop expecting the world to policed and set up just for them. Why do people take this bo-ho, woe is me attitude about everything?! I think the next step is to say that the games are too hard and that MS as well as other should build systems that just play themselves.
U mad?
I think Microsoft needs to police their service better.
I also think you need someone to edit your articles before posting. Your grammar is horrible.
hahaha lol
yes microsoft needs better police on their service because grown adults use it to talk to little kids
PS3 FTW (FOR THE WIN)
There are parental controls on the xbox 360 that prevent this sort of thing.
Use them thats what they are there for.
how is this news
LOL don’t children see other naked children anyways….
And? People can send you disgusting emails as well. If you open messages from people you don’t know expect a virus or better a disgusting picture. I don’t know what the point of this article is. do they expect microsoft to check every picture that is sent across there network? I mean fuck people’s privacy someone you don’t know could send you a nasty picture.
Sure, MS should better police their service.
While we’re at it — all emails should be screened by the government, along with snail mail being inspected at the post office.
People using technology need to be educated in its safe use — if you don’t know someone, don’t add them as a friend; don’t open messages from random strangers.
It’s not Microsoft’s fault, in the same way that a streaker in the street isn’t the council’s fault.
I have an interesting idea: if someone sends you child porn you should attempt to contact “the authorities”. I know that it’s crazy to suggest that Microsoft might not be “the authorities” simply because they can’t arrest people, but it might be a good idea to not worry about Microsoft’s little opinion before talking to the police.
why were the police involved in the first place? you people do realize that 99/100 times you would personally be cited for this type of material and only 1/100 times will it make the headlines that you were not the guilty party.
From the parents point of view, a console is not like computer – you wouldn’t necessarily expect random images being sent back and forth, and it’s hardly an integral part of the gaming experience. I think it’s a bad business decision to allow random graphical user content on consoles.
Microsoft should work with authorities in giving information of the sender.
This is a risk that a user takes when they don’t turn off the message feature and add friends they do not know. This couples experience is not common.
Microsoft is going to give the cops all the info tied to the sender and they will be party vanned.
Careful everyone !!! You may be exposed to images of other humans if you go online !!!
Give me a break. Is there nothing better we could be doing ?
The parental controls are available, they work perfectly, and have since the day the 360 was launched. Stop blaming everybody else for your issues… if you don’t like to watch, turn it off. If you don’t like talking with strangers, turn it off.
I think you all seem to be missing that is says “CHILD pornography” — which definitely should be reported to authorities…
You guys are all ignorant morons. It was child pornography. Highly illegal, and highly wrong. Children being forced into sex acts. Maybe you don’t understand, maybe you just don’t care. I tend to think the latter. It is good they alerted the authorities, and the person who sent it will likely do some prison time.
All you morons saying that it isn’t MS’s problem, HELLO!?!?!? Yes, MS can’t be screening everything that goes through the system, but the couple called MS to file a complaint and got a ‘just delete it’ response to something that should have included contacting the senders local authorities and sending out the cops to collect the perv.
this never would have happened on a PS3
PS3 has no GAEMS
This is the worst written article ever, Jesus…
Being online, and on the internet through any form or console is bound to leak some disturbing things. I think people generally know this by now, and people know that there are some potentially disturbing things being passed around the internet (in this case via the 360), but it doesn’t really take away the shock I assume the woman must have had. In this case, I don’t think it’s anyones -fault-, per say, and I don’t blame Microsoft for giving the “just delete it” response. This isn’t the first time an incident like this has happened, and it won’t be the last, no doubt..so I am siding with a lot of the other commenters, and will say that the best thing people can do is utilize parental controls and avoid messages from people you don’t know. I can say I’ve gotten some unpleasant spam messages before, like most everyone, but I don’t think it would helpful for me to blame MS. Got myself a spam blocker, and learned to be a bit more careful with opening .exe and .jar files, and haven’t had an issue since.
I hate these lazy journalists who end articles with “what do you think?”. Jeeze, it’s just as corny as ending an article with “Only time will tell.”
I hate these commentors that try to link their name to a “Viagra pill” selling site.
@Alex- I think it’s actually refreshing when an article writer expresses interest in their commenter’s opinions, instead of going the more elitist route and ending it more in a “I’m right, no one else gets to express any opinion.” Doesn’t really constitute as lazy.