It's a tough call. Because it's kiddie porn you want to say turn the bastard in. There are two problems with that however.
When I was doing tech support for a web host, someone noticed what appeared to be child porn in someone's directory. After some discussion, we did nothing because 1) there was no report or complaint. The tech that noticed this was merely bored and clicking around. For all we knew the pictures were just being stored. Most importantly though, once we took responsibility for the contents of people's web directories, would we have to pre-approve them all? And what about things that are less obviously wrong, like, oh, political speech? Secondly, back to the computer in question, we don't know if the files in question were cache files or original material, or if they were simply pictures of children naked. There are possible innocent explanations for the cache files, and for the pictures of naked children. At what point do you decide that such things are criminal? Dana On 8/16/05, SStewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something like child pornography is pretty obviously illegal, but a tech > seeing something he thinks is illegal.... > > I don't think evidence found on a hard drive is admissible w/o a warrant. > > Scott A. Stewart, > Web Application Developer > > Engineering Consulting Services, Ltd. (ECS) > 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 > Chantilly, VA 20151 > Phone: (703) 995-1737 > Fax: (703) 834-5527 > > "Many thousands of years ago, a blue faced Pict stepped on a bloated sheep > carcass... and thus the Pipes were born" > > .... the Scottish Rogues > > > -----Original Message----- > From: brobborb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 03:10 pm > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: pro or con... > Importance: Low > > I agree. But what do u think about the fact that when u go get your > pictures develop at he photolab, the technician can (has to?) report illegal > photos (kiddie pron) to the authorities? Isnt this kinda the same thing? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 2:04 PM > Subject: pro or con... > > > > Reluctantly, I think the EFF is right... > > > > Dana > > > > http://www.eff.org/news/ > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:169672 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
