Christopher Hoofnagle Notes Difficulty of Preventing Crimes by Monitoring Web

The Washington Post, August 6, 2009 by Jocelyn Noveck
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32305761/

“There are a lot of personal Web sites where people vent,” says Hoofnagle, the Berkeley lecturer. Is there any way to monitor these sites, and perhaps prevent crimes like Sodini’s killing spree? “To my knowledge, there’s no organized effort to look for the foreshadowing of this type of event,” Hoofnagle says.