I am led to speculate what would happen to a professor of sociology or cultural anthropology who is working on a treatise about the cultural mores of the 21st Century and the disruptions caused by the cross cultural standards of immigrants to this country versus the dominate mores of the current population.
Would they be arrested for "intent" to download child pornography in the process of gathering evidence to support their research? Or take the case of an art historian downloading pictures from pre-Renaissance time of Mary and the child Jesus, who has his genitals showing, be arrested for having child pornography on his computer. Or, to take an example much closer to our own fields, would one of us who deals in security be arrested for attempting to download pornography when we were running tracert and other analytical tools to track where a malicious e-mail with an embedded link came from? Even more interesting is the situation where one could visit a web site that used a pre-fetch mechanism to load the next page you would most likely visit based on historical data of past visitors. It would be quite easy to insert child pornography into almost any computer this way. I can't speak for you, but I have on more that one occasion discovered potentially compromising files on my computer that I was not even aware I had downloaded. Should I be arrested? Are we really sure we want to go down this road? Allen Ali, Saqib wrote: > http://www.news.com/the-iconoclast/8301-13578_3-9899151-38.html?tag=head > _______________________________________________ > FDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde > _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
