Good intentions, but I've personally participated in the digital forensic investigation of more than one high profile case where CIA zero-day's were utilized to plant child porn onto computers of VIP's in an effort to frame them for various reasons - so unless someone is straight up caught red handed having sex with a child I almost always lean on the side of state-sponsored entities framing "child porn" cases.
If there is video evidence of someone browsing a child porn folder, that's one thing. If it's just meta data from the harddrive, that's so simple to plant it can even be embedded quite easily in other benign content and served to a target system through an ad.
Most child porn accusations seem to be bullshit used to silence someone. I couldn't with any good conscious back any legislation that would just enable these existing blackmail mechanisms to have even more deadly effect.
I agree, and I think I may have earlier signed similar/ or the same petition. Death penalty for the kids of slightly different ages? Sex is actually there for a reason, and not a bad one. I am not here to police that.
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obvious_throwaway1 ago
Good intentions, but I've personally participated in the digital forensic investigation of more than one high profile case where CIA zero-day's were utilized to plant child porn onto computers of VIP's in an effort to frame them for various reasons - so unless someone is straight up caught red handed having sex with a child I almost always lean on the side of state-sponsored entities framing "child porn" cases.
If there is video evidence of someone browsing a child porn folder, that's one thing. If it's just meta data from the harddrive, that's so simple to plant it can even be embedded quite easily in other benign content and served to a target system through an ad.
Most child porn accusations seem to be bullshit used to silence someone. I couldn't with any good conscious back any legislation that would just enable these existing blackmail mechanisms to have even more deadly effect.
YogSoggoth ago
I agree, and I think I may have earlier signed similar/ or the same petition. Death penalty for the kids of slightly different ages? Sex is actually there for a reason, and not a bad one. I am not here to police that.