Rabbit Thought of the Day

Paedophiles, terrorists, online fraudsters and criminal gangs are more and more turning to the internet to try to escape detection, police warn. Sophisticated criminals are aware that if they carry a mobile telephone, their every movement can be tracked using cell site analysis. Calls from traditional land line phones leave a record with billing companies.

But newer technologies, such as Skype, an internet-based mobile phone system, are much more difficult to track. The same is true of online games, forums and social networking sites, where criminals can meet, buy and sell stolen information and plot, often undetected. Reports said terrorists are learning the techniques paedophiles use to escape detection online and turning them to their own advantage. The Times reported terrorists were using websites carrying images of child exploitation, and even embedding coded messages in child porn images as a way to communicate secretly.

The web is also a haven for organised criminal gangs from Russia and China who target websites for blackmail and overload them with information to bring them down if the money is not paid. The DarkMarket site, which has been taken off-line, operated as a "virtual criminal network", police say. Beginners to the world of online fraud could gain expertise quickly, share tips with each other and buy bank and credit card details.

Entry to the site was password protected and by invitation only, keeping the number of users down to about 2,500. These people were scattered around the world, operating in western Europe, Asia and the US. The website was brought down in a three-year sting involving FBI agents and police forces in different countries.

The operation illustrates the difficulties police have in tracking online crime and the need for international co-operation. As the web becomes more complicated, and internet technology more sophisticated, the opportunities for cybercrime continue to grow.

Police in Jamaica are investigating the suspected theft of hundreds of tons of sand from a beach on the island's north coast. It was discovered in July that 500 truck-loads had been removed outside a planned resort at Coral Spring beach. Detectives say people in the tourism sector could be suspects, because a good beach is seen as a valuable asset to hotels on the Caribbean island. But a lack of arrests made since July have led to criticism of the police.

Illegal sand mining is a problem in Jamaica; the tradition of people building their own homes here means there is a huge demand for the construction material. However, the large volume and the type of sand taken made suspicion point towards the hotel industry.

The disappearance was deemed so important that the Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, also took an interest in the theft and ordered a report into how 500 truckloads of sand was stolen, transported and presumably sold.

Three months on, and with no arrests or charges in the case, the main opposition People's National Party have suggested that some people now think there has been a cover up.

But the deputy commissioner for crime at the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Mark Shields, insisted this was not an open-and-shut case. "It's a very complex investigation because it involves so many aspects," he told the BBC.

"You've got the receivers of the stolen sand, or what we believe to be the sand. The trucks themselves, the organisers and, of course, there is some suspicion that some police were in collusion with the movers of the sand."

Police said they were carrying out forensic tests on beaches along the coast to see if any of it matches the stolen sand.

Isn’t it amazing you think everything is done and you can relax, but your feet and read a good book and then you find more things that need to done. Well I did find more ironing to do, but thankfully even that is done.

Another great work out and another record time for me, well under 2 hours for the 18 plus miles and considering 8 miles of it are cross country and I had to walk almost a mile due to the pedestrian section being very busy I am very pleased with myself, although not as sunny as yesterday it’s reasonably warm and dry. All in all I have had a great day so far and coupled with yesterday effort, I am a very happy at the moment.

The only down side this morning was, while in the process of changing the batteries on my front bike light, it decided to fall to pieces, but with a bit of determination and a bit of sticky tap I managed to repair the light at least for now, god knows what will happen when I have to change the batteries again.

Right I’m dressed and ready to go, hopefully I should be back in a little over two, hours then it will take the rest of day to recover, lol. I do enjoy it, really you have to trust on this one. Once I get going I’m fine, sometimes though it hard to motivate myself, but then I think back onto to what I had become I realise that this is best for me, I’m fitter, stronger and feel great.

I still need to lose at least another two stone, but I’ll get I promise you. Catch you all later.

Hello my blogging friends welcome to Sunday, the day of rest (well for some anyway). For me it will be a bit of a mixture, I still have a little ironing to do. Nothing drastic about half an hour should see it complete and of course Sunday is when I do my long route bike ride, once again I will wait until it has warmed up a little.

But I suppose I should get used to the cold because we are heading into winter and I can’t stop just because it cold and dark. I could put warmer clothes on, but then you tend to sweat more, oh I well must go, catch you alter have a great day.