Forwarded from: Kevin L. Shaw <kevin.shaw@private> Your screensaver is then actively looking for illegal content. What happens when your door is kicked in by the cops because your ISP detects you accessing data on their "watch list"? What's to prevent pedophiles from using the "screensaver" as their get out of jail free card? "Stopping the supply" will be about as effective as anti-cocaine operations in South America; which is to say, not very effective at all. Treating the mentally ill and recognizing signs of aberrant behavior to help prevent it - a wholly non-technological solution - seems to me far more effective. -----Original Message----- Subject: [ISN] Second sight http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,,1331820,00.html Dave Birch October 21, 2004 The Guardian I was involved in a discussion about internet policing and child pornography the other day. There were a number of suggestions: ID cards, expanding police IT training and so on. None, in my opinion, were likely to have much ... _________________________________________ Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) Everything is Vulnerable - http://www.osvdb.org/
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