Social software fights crime

From today’s SF Gate, an article entitled Police Turn to YouTube to Catch Suspects:

But when Johnson didn’t recognize either man, he decided to involve people — a lot of them — to help crack the case. He posted a clip from a security camera on YouTube.com, Google Inc.’s video-sharing Web site, then e-mailed the clip’s link to about 300 people and organizations saying the department was looking for the men.

The moral, I suppose, is that social software is hard on  politicians and criminals (redundancy).