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Fruity Link Too Juicy for Kids

nzherald.co.nz — A healthy food website promoted to children on hundreds of bags of pre-packed mandarins has turned out to be a link to hardcore pornography.

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  • solonGFX, on 05/26/2008, -2/+84That's what happens when you're trying to get to a website called "Munch Island".
    • mnortei, on 05/26/2008, -5/+27penisland.net
      • debuggercll, on 05/26/2008, -1/+9Pen Island: For all your pen needs. Visit www.PenIsland.com
    • theOster, on 05/26/2008, -1/+2could also have been a defective com-puter...
  • SilentJay74, on 05/26/2008, -2/+44Well MunchIsland alone sounds a little fishy to me.
  • SeaweedWater, on 05/26/2008, -4/+39*bookmarks MunchIsland*
  • dougvfr750, on 05/26/2008, -3/+95"Hey Dad, these oranges look more like cantaloupes"
  • Drazzim12, on 05/26/2008, -1/+30Oh where was the "Hector's Button" when I needed it!
  • plzb6ib9, on 05/26/2008, -22/+3LOL This could be easily caused by Adaware or some kind of Malware that will redirect to porn sites on the computer. However it is just as likely that the website just accepted the wrong ads.
    • ccanni1028, on 05/26/2008, -0/+9Or you could learn to read the actual article and see what really happened.
  • coffee200am, on 05/26/2008, -2/+18Did the site have free previews?
  • chatster, on 05/26/2008, -6/+0oops! what a nasty mistake!
  • BizarreNews, on 05/26/2008, -1/+16Juicy!
  • Stuart.n, on 05/26/2008, -1/+51Who knew that squatters were now hackers?
    • prophetpimp, on 05/26/2008, -1/+10well atlest they aint hackers on steroids. then only a dog could save your ass.
    • AriaStar, on 05/26/2008, -0/+12"Smith blamed cyber squatters - hackers who set up porn sites with domain names a letter or two different from those popular with children."

      I had to read that a few times before finally moving on. The level of stupid in that one sentence nearly killed my brain cells trying to understand. Squatters and hackers are so different that it blows my mind how someone could say that a squatter is a hacker.
      • asnider, on 05/26/2008, -0/+8According to the media, a hacker is anyone who does "bad things" with a computer.
    • Philbert, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1That part of the story ticked me off more than the link misprint.
  • Rainemaker, on 05/26/2008, -3/+17DUGG for Caption. Too "Juicy" indeed, the puns are ***** flying.
    • dislexicllama, on 05/26/2008, -0/+17there's a punderstorm brewing in the distance
      • DaHuuuuuudge, on 05/26/2008, -1/+6No, it's already here and I'm punderstruck.
  • wrathchilde, on 05/26/2008, -3/+63URL or it didn't happen.
  • Endlesswar2, on 05/26/2008, -6/+2so how do i get to this website?
  • wikitywack, on 05/26/2008, -3/+11"pre-packed Mandarins"... was is a Chinese pr0n site at least?
    • Myonosken, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Apparently fruit puns aren't in today.
    • wikitywack, on 05/26/2008, -2/+0fruits getting in... even more punny
  • twiztidsinz, on 05/26/2008, -2/+41To avoid 90% of the arguments here, Digg should adopt this:
    "A free download available at netsafe.co.nz offers young computer users an icon called Hector's Button. Used in many primary schools, it teaches children to click on a swimming dolphin on the com- puter screen if they come across anything that upsets them.

    Chisholm said the screen would immediately be replaced with an underwater scene featuring Hector and a message tell- ing the child to get an adult."
    • s0nicfreak, on 05/26/2008, -1/+13Seems like it would make more sense to instruct kids to just press the close button.
      • astrofrank128, on 05/26/2008, -0/+16The idea is that the kids' parents can then see what it was and try to fix it/comfort their scarred children.
    • bj1989, on 05/26/2008, -2/+6The ignorance of these people is just mind blowing. Children are CURIOUS. Placing a big button they should click if they're upset isn't going to help. Especially since there already is something like a close button.
    • senatorpjt, on 05/26/2008, -0/+3I'd have queued up 2girls1cup so it would start playing as soon as the adult closed the dolphin.
  • DoctorGumbo, on 05/26/2008, -1/+44The girl in the pic does not look amused
    • mrjhmm, on 05/27/2008, -0/+2She looks like she will be an angry wife someday.
  • fr3ddie, on 05/26/2008, -1/+108someone found porn on the internet?!?!?!
    • orangefly, on 05/26/2008, -0/+33dr. cox-I'm fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called "Bring back the porn!
  • adml_shake, on 05/26/2008, -3/+2Yeah buddy, those melon's do taste great.
  • blackturtleus, on 05/26/2008, -0/+10I'm not too sure if I'd encourage kids to press Hector's button! It sounds more dangerous than just looking at a few pictures...
  • gchance, on 05/26/2008, -1/+4The site they were trying to reach was www.kiddipick.co.nz, but they typed what was on the package, www.kiddipick.com. It now redirects to the nz site.
  • albinorhino101, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4Well the recipe for "Ryan's Fruit Rocket" on that page looks and sounds pretty phallic to me
  • soccernamlak, on 05/26/2008, -1/+20They fixed the link already.

    The site is http://www.kiddipick.com It redirects you now to http://www.kiddipick.co.nz/ which is a healthy food web site that within its directory has a link for Munch Island.
  • dislexicllama, on 05/26/2008, -0/+23dugg for happy ending
  • tehreflex, on 05/26/2008, -2/+2wtf is with the kid in the pic? She looks like she's on the cover of the Fight Club movie box. The website makes sense since she was looking up "fruit" stuff. No offense to and gay ppl.
  • shadow66142000, on 05/26/2008, -2/+51Does anyone else think Ryan's Fruit Rocket looks like a penis?

    http://www.freshfoodkids.co.nz/
    • nuketrap, on 05/26/2008, -2/+2lol
    • s0nicfreak, on 05/26/2008, -0/+20Not to mention all the titles sound like some kind of porn title. "Lucy's Melting Moment" ... "Katie's Handy Hint" ...
    • anbublackops, on 05/26/2008, -0/+16Don't forget about "Luke's Fruity Light Sabre".
    • EddietheHated, on 05/26/2008, -3/+2Damn you for beating me to it!

      Digg you for being on the ball@
  • breezytrees, on 05/26/2008, -1/+4Anyone find the links?
  • nuketrap, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4Well they are going to learn about it some day and then one day they'll crave it
  • magic6435, on 05/26/2008, -1/+47"Smith blamed cyber squatters - hackers who set up porn sites with domain names a letter or two different from those popular with children."

    These story's make me sooooooo pissed. What hackers? where was the "hacking" what was "hacked".
    • BlankLeeloo, on 05/26/2008, -0/+3I like how it says they pick domains close to those children visit.. children are the main audience of porn sites?
      • dood, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4Haha, yeah. I wonder who out there still thinks that porn sites are trying to target children. Kids don't have enough money for pornographers to even want to bother targeting them.
  • pctoken, on 05/26/2008, -6/+2"Early results from Netsafe research suggested 90 per cent of year 9 students had viewed porn online."
    I don't belive the other 89% "viewed" it unintentionally.
    • Vindexus, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2What the hell are you talking about?
  • headzoo, on 05/26/2008, -0/+12Apparently the media now thinks anyone capable of registering a domain name is a hacker. Looks like I've been a hacker since 1995, and I didn't even know it!
    • rumblebelly, on 05/26/2008, -1/+3I know what you mean, as a mildly decent hacker this offends me.

      This and the idea that all hacking is malicious.
  • MetallicaBand, on 05/26/2008, -0/+3Oh Yay, more porn!!! Pics or it didn't happ....oh wait, never mind. *shivers*
  • ocellnuri, on 05/26/2008, -0/+44This company, and the author of this article, have no clue how the internet works.

    "she was told the unregistered .com site had been hacked into." - You mean... legitimately bought?

    "Smith blamed cyber squatters - hackers who set up porn sites with domain names a letter or two different from those popular with children." - Yes, this is all cyber squatters do... and it requires hacking. Right.
    • WayOfTheIronPaw, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2Won't someone *please* think of the children, round up the *hackers* and have a cull.
  • leetdood, on 05/26/2008, -0/+12"Finer said she phoned FreshMax thinking the .com address was a misprint."

    Thank god, a sane parent who realized it was probably a mistake and didn't try to sue their pants off.
    • Owwmykneecap, on 05/26/2008, -1/+7you dont have to sue me to get my pants off.
  • JakeyG14, on 05/26/2008, -3/+5So is the girl in the picture an advert for the website..? Too far, huh? Bury away...
    • kc23266, on 05/26/2008, -1/+1[demotivator]CONGRATULATIONS You are now a pedophile[/demotivator]
  • over900000, on 05/26/2008, -1/+38Well Kids are growing up faster these days. The earlier they learn about double penetration, fisting and deepthroating the better it is.
    • choopie911, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1I can already imagine the newsreels being played in classrooms, just like the old duck and cover ones.
  • kaniz, on 05/26/2008, -0/+38I love how pissed off the girl looks in the news photo. Its not like she just accidentally surfed to a porn site, but the porn site then came over, ran over her dog and drowned her cat in the toilet. The semi-blurry photo of the mother holding the younger child in the background only adds to the impact. There is something very Fox news-ish about that photo. I approve.
  • kc23266, on 05/26/2008, -0/+0Oops...
  • Edmunds, on 05/26/2008, -0/+7"A big, cartoon, purple monster completely directed at kids"

    Terrifying image
  • 3leggedHorse, on 05/26/2008, -0/+7Digg needs a Hector button that directs diggers straight to porn.
  • Hurrican33, on 05/26/2008, -0/+3Hot Gay Bareback Porn !!
  • ismschisms, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4How does that girl manage to look like an old frigid ice queen at the age of 8? Kids; they grow up so fast these days!

    Also
    Huh huh..."Munch Island".
  • mrsteveman1, on 05/26/2008, -0/+6This isn't cool for sure, these companies should be more careful and so should parents.

    However, something tells me this incident is going to end up being used to push to restrict the internet and porn in general over there in nz like is going on now in Australia: "ZOMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN" is a common theme lately.

    I realize the girl was only 8 years old, but lets not pretend that seeing people have sex is the worst possible thing she could have seen.
    • EddietheHated, on 05/26/2008, -0/+5Yeah... it could have been a guy inserting his erect penis into an orface meant for the excretion of solid waste...


      oh *****...

      [metapun intended]
    • BitKid, on 05/26/2008, -0/+5The kid in this case didn't even see porn. She saw the entrance to the site asking her to click enter if she was over 18 and luckily her older sister "saw what was happening and clicked her out of there".
  • mizzaxx, on 05/26/2008, -0/+9I like how relevant the snickers ad is on that page.

    "Go to snickers.co.nz AND GET SOME NUTS!!"
  • karrtoon, on 05/26/2008, -1/+1"NB: This story is a parody and is not intended to be taken seriously."
  • philthetechie, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4FTA "Smith blamed cyber squatters - hackers who set up porn sites with domain names a letter or two different from those popular with children"

    STOP ABUSING THE WORD "HACKER"!
    • jamild, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Hackers aren't bad, Computer Criminals are.
  • MissAttitude7, on 05/26/2008, -2/+1Definitely not "Munch Island" more like Brokeback Island!
  • spinxter, on 05/26/2008, -0/+7"She said she was told the unregistered .com site had been hacked into."
    Hacked into? Sounds to me like someone simply purchased a domain that was not previously taken. There was no hacking here. Just simple commerce. If the company didn't want porn on the .com they should have bought it themselves.
    • secrity, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2And they shouldn't have put the wrong address on their packages.
    • alliallialli, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1IT IS ALWAYS HACKING. Always.
  • Zihuatanejo, on 05/26/2008, -0/+7Hackers are taking over the internet! [Truck explodes]
  • ljsmithx, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4WTF Is wrong with their grammar?

    "Lee Chisholm, of Netsafe, said that extreme violence or sex- ually explicit material was often a couple of mouse clicks or a mis-spelt word away."

    "A free download available at netsafe.co.nz offers young computer users an icon called Hector's Button. Used in many primary schools, it teaches children to click on a swimming dolphin on the com- puter screen if they come across anything that upsets them."

    "Chisholm said the screen would immediately be replaced with an underwater scene featuring Hector and a message tell- ing the child to get an adult."
  • ljsmithx, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1http://www.kiddipick.co.nz/munch.php
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