This is great, bash ftw. Nice presentation, too.

Regarding its legality, I will paraphrase Bishop Berkeley: if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

What I am getting at is until there is a complaint, there is no crime, and as at least another pointed out, criminals will usually not report crimes that reveal their own crimes. "They kidnapped my kidnap-victim!"