Tag: DATELINE

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/11/15/undercover-wife-busts-husband-by-posing-as-a-chatroom-teen/'; With its 'To Catch a Predator' sting operations, NBC's 'Dateline' has spawned a Web meme of motivational posters and jokes deriding repulsive sexual deviants. Those undercover sting operations have also inspired a wave of Net vigilantes who personally attempt to ensnare those unwitting, ...

After years spent undercover busting pedophiles, con men, and, most recently, iPod thieves, NBC's 'Dateline' would presumably have perfected its whole cloak and dagger routine by now. And, for the average dimwitted criminal, that may be true. But, against the world's most ingenious computer hackers, NBC's spy game is amateur hour. This became awkwardly clear recently when 'Dateline' spook ...