>In February 2014, authorities executed a search warrant at a residence in Mesquite on Point East Drive after an undercover detective with the Sherman Police Department noticed a particular computer was making files of child pornography.
Can anyone explain how the detective found this out? Are all computers under surveillance? I honestly don't know but it seems like a crazy invasion of privacy regardless of the crime. It said the computer was "making files". WTF does that mean?
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It says he was using his neighbor's wifi
>his computer was spontaneously generating child abuse
Has science gone too far?
And? How does that explain anything?
>Can anyone explain how the detective found this out? Are all computers under surveillance? I honestly don't know but it seems like a crazy invasion of privacy regardless of the crime. It said the computer was "making files". WTF does that mean?
Probably that the reporter fucked up, the actual charge probably read something like "making files available for download"
Ya know all those super secret places on the interwebs? The cops know about them too, and they monitor them. In the case of local departments they just sit in chat rooms or file sharing sites and harvest IP addresses. If they find one in their jurisdiction they have a closer look at what they're up to. My guess is that this guy was on a file sharing network that was being monitored. IP's are not private, and its not an invasion of privacy if you're actively making files available for download.>Are all computers under surveillance?
In addition to the NSA? Not specifically however... The government along with the National Center for Missing and Exploited children maintains a database of confirmed cp file hashes. Cloud storage, web mail, and social networking sites have an agreement that they automatically check if these hashes are being shared or stored. If its detected the service provider forwards that info to the authorities.
>Computer was making
It was... making them? How?
duplicating them/downloading them
it news reports it usually means that
Did they shoot the first houses dog? Should I secure my WiFi? I leave it open to be a neighborhood bro.
I actually do leave my guest network open and honestly I'm not worried about it
>database of confirmed cp hashes that is checked against by every major website
Bullshit
its been known for ages you idiot
That's a massive waste of resources and I won't believe it until you post multiple sources.
There was a story about someone getting nabbed for keeping illegal images on his OneDrive a few years back. I don't feel like Googling it.
Do you really have trouble believing that in a post-Snowden internet?
the only thing i'd take issue with is "every major website", the search engines sure, most cloud storage yes, espn.com i doubt.
check out Microsoft PhotoDNA
>The cops know about them too
No fucking way.
You mean, one could be here? RIGHT NOW?!
Not a source
*waves*
Why link one when you can search the goddamn name of the service that I fucking posted to find any number of sources you like?
>*waves*
*grabs you by the throat*
Because photoDNA doesn't work by searching hashes and comparing against a worldwide CP database. It's bullshit and you know it.
>? Are all computers under surveillance?
>undercover detective
You literally answered your own question, faggot.
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That's exactly how PhotoDNA works as claimed by msft's page on it. How do you think it works?
How do you do fellow Sup Forums "Anons", does anyone know where I can find some special "pizza"? *wink wink*
distributors and producers of child porn usually do the following: one scenario is, that they team up with blackhats and rent their botnets. joe everydays computer is, unknown to him, thanks to a trojan part of one of this botnets. they just store the illegal files on his hard drive, fire up an ftp and that's the part joe everyday hangs himself in jail because he was distributing cp.
the other scenario is, that they team up with carders and rent servers from western services, create virtual machines accessible via vpn to their customers.
there is a long german text from an former insider about this on wikileaks, maybe there'S already a translation. he goes detailed into this.
from /dev/random of course
Neural networks you fucking retard. How the hell could they identify images based on the content of the image if all it did was scan hashes? Do you think Microsoft has an extensively commented database of every image on the internet to compare hashes against?
why yes, its much better than searching deviantart for sci fi pics
There is a database of cp hashes maintained by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. This is a fact.
Yes you should, unless you want to risk being raided and having all your electronic shit taken and searched.
Prove it.
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
>Are all computers under surveillance?
never heard of windows 10 ?
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Stated on this page. microsoft.com
Are you going to tell me Microsoft solved a much more difficult feature-based image recognition problem instead of simply breaking the image up and hashing each chunk like they claim?
"Databases of known illegal images" is not a source nor does it prove your claim.
All you have proven is that there is a service that could do this assuming they had a running databases of all "illegal images" hashed with their algorithm.
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>distributors and producers of child porn usually do the following: one scenario is, that they team up with blackhats and rent their botnets. joe everydays computer is, unknown to him, thanks to a trojan part of one of this botnets. they just store the illegal files on his hard drive, fire up an ftp and that's the part joe everyday hangs himself in jail because he was distributing cp.
That's literally terrifying
i don't know if you're a troll, stupid or just panicking over your collection. but here, an article from almost 10 years ago about how they want to create this database. zdnet.com
it is. so many people don't care about their own cybersecurity, not updating their machines, refuse to install any basic firewall or antivirus. they basically offering free hosting for criminals and not long ago police didn't care if you had anything to do with the cp on your machine. it was on your machine, end of story. that's why so many "everyday fathers" ended up killing themselves before or after they have been convicted. they lost everything.
Again this isn't a source. I can pull up articles about how Kasich wants to build a high speed rail from Columbus to Chicago, but that doesn't mean said train exists.
you know what, fuck off. we're not here to cure your inability to research for yourself while you dismiss any bit we give you.
>Guys! Every major website in the world does implausible thing!
>No they don't. Prove it.
>Fuck off retard I don't have to prove anything to you you're wrong!
>ICMEC manages and supports Project Vic. It is an image and video hash-sharing initiative that streamlines investigative workflows and narrows the focus of law enforcement investigations by filtering the material investigators find on offenders’ computers.[71][72][73][74] Using robust hash sets, Project Vic technology allows law enforcement to determine which images retrieved have already been identified, and are part of the Project's database of millions of digital hashes of child porn, enabling detectives to focus on those that are new children waiting to be located and recovered.
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and now fuck off.
Okay. Now prove that every major cloud storage provider and image host like you claimed uses photoDNA or compares against that database.
No.
Then you're wrong and your claim is bullshit.
>Believing these ridiculous claims
FUD, not a proper source.
wiki-user here. i didn't claim that, but you wouldn't believe us anyways.
It's all bullshit desu
The database if hashes is likely abandoned by now because it's retarded and photodna didn't really work either. It's just a scare tactic
prove me wrong.
>I didn't claim that
Yes you did.
>The government... NCMEC maintains a database of confirmed cp file hashes. Cloud storage, webmail, and social networking sites have an agreement...
>Yes you did.
no, that was another user. i just quoted wikipedia here. stop being paranoid.
so, can you stop this autism now?
Will you provide a source for your claims or admit that they are unsubstantiated bullshit?
A friend of mine got instabanned for posting nudes of his gf on Sup Forums just recently, the file was flagged.
Definitely not bullshit.
My mom is a janitor I can confirm this
Not him but if Microsoft is already doing it with PhotoDNA, isn't it safe to assume that other service providers are doing a similar thing? Seeing as they could face legal issues if they didn't.
i provided you with a source about this project, not with the claims someone else did. on their official site - icmec.org
>Project VIC is a collaborative effort between ICMEC, law enforcement and industry.
and if you're not an complete idiot, you will know who "the industry" is. and yes, i'm aware you will reject this again because i don't have google's ceo on the phone right now confirming it.
No they wouldnt. Why waste millions on some algorithm thatd just nail your own users. They dont give a fuck about little jids. Theyll just go by someone manually reporting pedoshit and at best will ban the hash of that file which doesnt matter because its easy as fuck to change that and that shit is uploaded by the archive anyway so it wouldn't even effect the image.
Image hosts dont do anything more than hashes of banned files too, same as Sup Forums, but it'd cripple those sites if they used something like photodna
>“Any tool that decreases the amount of child sexual abuse material circulating on the Internet is welcomed by INTERPOL. We encourage everyone hosting material online to use this technology to ensure their services are not being exploited to distribute appalling videos of child abuse.” said Michael Moran, the Head of INTERPOL’s Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Unit.
>Project VIC partners have identified many of the worst videos and images of child sexual abuse and exploitation, and with today’s donation, can now successfully create a data library by “reference” fingerprinting a large collection of videos. In addition, online service providers, such as social networks, video sharing sites, and cloud hosting services, will be able to automatically read the F1 fingerprints, rather than visually screening for child pornography, and stop it from running on their services.
The problem of child pornography has become epidemic, magnified by the use of smart phones by predators which allows them to produce hundreds of short videos of abuse material in a format that allows them to be easily distributed. This donation by Friend MTS will help ICMEC construct an ecosystem of law enforcement agencies and electronic service providers that can all recognize, and identify the same videos because they are using a common fingerprint.
I'm hunting down some posts in the archives, though I'm fairly sure he didn't post the actual reason of the ban anywhere...
Yep, no details of the ban in the archives, understandably. Only people asking why he was banned.