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Interpol unblurs images to ask for your help

Author: Phil Cogar
Published: 10th October 2007
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Interpol has released the before and after images of the man sought in relation to the case.

Interpol has released the before and after images of the man sought in relation to the case.

Interpol is enlisting the Internet to help identify a man that was photographed sexually abusing young boys in a series ranging in around 200 images in size. Normally, topics of these nature don't make it to the news section of bit-tech, but this one is a special case.

Specialists in the German federal police force have managed to unmask the man's face after a swirl effect had been used to conceal his identity. The unmasked images were released by Interpol on Monday via a press release.

"The decision to make public this man’s picture was not one which was taken lightly, but after thoughtful consideration and with the full agreement of experts from Interpol’s member countries dedicated to fighting this appalling criminal activity," said Assistant Director of Interpol’s Trafficking in Human Beings Unit Kristin Kvigne.

The image series, which contains twelve male youths, appears to have been taken in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Interpol is asking for anyone who can identify the man to contact it through an email form on its website.

These types of image blurring techniques are commonly found throughout the Internet. Many people use swirling and pixelation techniquies to hide identifiable information such as bank card numbers, social security numbers, and faces but these techniques are proving inefficient. The best method (and the only method I have ever used except in a few cases) is to completely colour over the information.

If you think you know the person in the images then send a detailed email over to Interpol. Currently, there have been over 200 replies to the inquiry.

Do you use a pixelation or blur method to hide your personal information or do you just use a nice black box? Hope the guy gets caught? Leave your thoughts over in the forums.
Get GeForce. Get Visual
Quote chiper136 10th October 2007, 11:35
Hope the guy gets caught?

Silliest question ever asked since "Will Crysis run on my Mac G5"
Quote mclean007 10th October 2007, 12:09
What a clown. I hope they put him in a Cambodian prison for life. Still, we should be glad he's not too bright - an effect like that is clearly reversible, and had he had the brains to realise this he might have used a simple blur / pixellation filter instead, and we'd be none the wiser as to his identity.

Throw away the key.
Quote mctigger 10th October 2007, 12:09
yeah stupid question, he should be caught and punished severly, he is scum.
Quote jezmck 10th October 2007, 12:41
He had photos of himself taken, which suggests he wanted to be seen doing it...


PS:
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Originally Posted by phil
a series ranging in around 200 images in size
how confusing of you. is there a minimum word count?
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Originally Posted by me
a series of around 200 images
Quote Ryu_ookami 10th October 2007, 12:41
Your right he does need to be caught but whats really worrying is the fact that apparently he has been doing this for years

"For years, images of this man sexually abusing children have been circulating on the internet," Interpol's secretary general, Ronald Noble, said in a statement

and its taken this long for them to unswirl his image
Quote Javerh 10th October 2007, 13:06
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Originally Posted by Ryu_ookami

and its taken this long for them to unswirl his image

Only recently has The Power of Interpol's Computers increased enough for them to download photoshop.
Quote ralph.pickering 10th October 2007, 13:18
I suppose the only downside to releasing the photograph is that these criminal scum won't make the same mistake twice. When they catch him I hope they feed him his own testicles.
Quote Ryu_ookami 10th October 2007, 13:21
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Originally Posted by Javerh
Only recently has The Power of Interpol's Computers increased enough for them to download photoshop.

The really sad thing about that comment is that I can quite believe it to be true!
Quote chiper136 10th October 2007, 14:25
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Originally Posted by ralph.pickering
I suppose the only downside to releasing the photograph is that these criminal scum won't make the same mistake twice. When they catch him I hope they feed him his own testicles.

It means they wont make that mistake in future. But anyone that has used this idea before is now shitting them selves because they can be found out and lets hope they do.
Quote wbdog206 10th October 2007, 14:52
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Originally Posted by ralph.pickering
I suppose the only downside to releasing the photograph is that these criminal scum won't make the same mistake twice. When they catch him I hope they feed him his own testicles.

after they cut them off with a rusty can lid.
Quote kenco_uk 10th October 2007, 15:24
Shouldn't be too hard to catch with a complexion like that.
Quote mattthegamer463 10th October 2007, 21:20
Too bad they've released these images onto the internet though, not only will he learn his lesson about filtering properly, but now all the pedos will be sure to not make the same mistake (and give us such a wonderfully stupid opportunity to catch them.)

At least one guy will get busted hopefully.
Quote DXR_13KE 10th October 2007, 22:09
just turn him into dog food very slowly...
Quote knowyourenemy 11th October 2007, 05:41
Just a future note to sickos who also double as Photoshop-pro-wannabes: Mosiac filter, 3x3 grid. Easy.
Quote jezmck 11th October 2007, 07:43
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Originally Posted by knowyourenemy
Just a future note to sickos who also double as Photoshop-pro-wannabes: Mosiac filter, 3x3 grid. Easy.
Not always going to work actually: read http://dheera.net/projects/blur.php (was linked in the article)
Quote pranks7er 11th October 2007, 12:04
update on story

BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7039387.stm
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A woman from County Antrim has been interviewed by the PSNI in connection with a worldwide police hunt
Quote rhuitron 14th February 2008, 10:46
This photo Reminds me of the guy from the movie Untraceable.

Owen, The bad guy of the movie.

And really now, cant Interpol give a better picture than ^ that one?
Quote Ryu_ookami 14th February 2008, 12:11
holy thread revival batman
Quote EmJay 14th February 2008, 18:33
They got him. http://www.interpol.int/Public/THB/vico/Default.asp Huzzah!
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