Complex Networks
Paedophile keywords in eDonkey queries
On a P2P system, users submit keyword-based queries to a search engine. Someof them request paedophile content. This plot gives the distribution of thenumber of paedophile keywords contained in the queries sent to an eDonkeyserver during a ten-week experiment [1]. We plotted the number of paedophilekeywords on the x-axis and the number of queries containing this exact numberof paedophile keywords on the y-axis, using a logarithmic scale. A set of 21paedophile keywords has been gathered in a preliminary study [2], theysupposedly are tags for unambiguous paedophile content. Over the 127 millionqueries that were gathered, slightly more than 115,000 of them were identifiedas "paedophile" (i.e. they contain at least one paedophile keyword).
One observes that most paedophile queries (95,8%) have only one paedophilekeyword and 99,5% contain 3 or less keywords. This observation leads us tocarefully investigate the underlying notions around this plot : "what is a paedophile query?", and "what is a paedophile user?". Moreover, there are more interesting questions such as "is there a maximum number of paedophile keywords above which a query should be considered as submitted by a non-human user?", "Are there some combinations of our keywords that are used to search for non-paedophile content?".
In our work, we aim at counting the number of paedophile users on this server. One should notice that the definition of apaedophile query has a high impact on the figure given.
There were 50,801 IPs which made at least one paedophile query (that containsone paedophile keyword at least) during the experiment. The table below shows the number of different IPs which submittedqueries containing exactly N paedophile keywords in the second column. In the last column, IPs that may be counted into several categories are removed, an IP is not counted twice or more.
KeywordsNumber of different IPsNumber of different IPs, doubles removed149739483892180370936032304211775479654107191831910
The differences between the second and third column show the importance of the definition of a paedophile user on the results.The difference between the total number of paedophile IPs and the sum of the last column -- 49426 -- shows that only a small fraction (1375, which is 2.7% of the total) of paedophile IPs submitted queries with a different number of keywords. Our future work will investigate combinations of keywords.
[1] : Ten weeks in the life of an eDonkey server, F. Aidouni, M. Latapy and C. Magnien, Proceedings of HotP2P'09, 2009.
[2] : First report on Database Specification and Access including Content Rating and Fake Detection system, M. Latapy, C. Magnien and G. Valadon, submitted, 2008.
Paedophile keywords in eDonkey queries
On a P2P system, users submit keyword-based queries to a search engine. Someof them request paedophile content. This plot gives the distribution of thenumber of paedophile keywords contained in the queries sent to an eDonkeyserver during a ten-week experiment [1]. We plotted the number of paedophilekeywords on the x-axis and the number of queries containing this exact numberof paedophile keywords on the y-axis, using a logarithmic scale. A set of 21paedophile keywords has been gathered in a preliminary study [2], theysupposedly are tags for unambiguous paedophile content. Over the 127 millionqueries that were gathered, slightly more than 115,000 of them were identifiedas "paedophile" (i.e. they contain at least one paedophile keyword).
One observes that most paedophile queries (95,8%) have only one paedophilekeyword and 99,5% contain 3 or less keywords. This observation leads us tocarefully investigate the underlying notions around this plot : "what is a paedophile query?", and "what is a paedophile user?". Moreover, there are more interesting questions such as "is there a maximum number of paedophile keywords above which a query should be considered as submitted by a non-human user?", "Are there some combinations of our keywords that are used to search for non-paedophile content?".
In our work, we aim at counting the number of paedophile users on this server. One should notice that the definition of apaedophile query has a high impact on the figure given.
There were 50,801 IPs which made at least one paedophile query (that containsone paedophile keyword at least) during the experiment. The table below shows the number of different IPs which submittedqueries containing exactly N paedophile keywords in the second column. In the last column, IPs that may be counted into several categories are removed, an IP is not counted twice or more.
KeywordsNumber of different IPsNumber of different IPs, doubles removed149739483892180370936032304211775479654107191831910
The differences between the second and third column show the importance of the definition of a paedophile user on the results.The difference between the total number of paedophile IPs and the sum of the last column -- 49426 -- shows that only a small fraction (1375, which is 2.7% of the total) of paedophile IPs submitted queries with a different number of keywords. Our future work will investigate combinations of keywords.
[1] : Ten weeks in the life of an eDonkey server, F. Aidouni, M. Latapy and C. Magnien, Proceedings of HotP2P'09, 2009.
[2] : First report on Database Specification and Access including Content Rating and Fake Detection system, M. Latapy, C. Magnien and G. Valadon, submitted, 2008.