British Government Web Sites Full of Child Porn

British Government Web Sites Full of Child Porn: Thousands of British government, National Health Service, school and police Web sites have been doctored to include links to pornography, viruses and other inappropriate material. An investigation by The Times and Trend Micro, the Internet security specialists, has revealed that a large number of taxpayer-funded official Web sites have been hit by a practice known as 'link spamming.' This is when a hacker, or a member of the public, adds links to an official Web site, which then point visitors to other, inappropriate, material. It means that an unsuspecting parent might click on an innocent-looking link on his child's school site and be taken to a pornographic site instead, or a patient might click on an NHS Web site link only to download a harmful computer virus without her knowledge. Many government-created Web sites are potentially unsafe.