josephdphillips
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Post by josephdphillips on Jul 24, 2013 15:43:00 GMT -5
My employers have a department that reconditions used computers and charges only a nominal fee for them to parents who have young children. Of all the computers they have taken in over a 10 year period, they have only found traces of child porn on one. The person who donated it had bought it used, so there was really no way to find the person responsible. It was not files, but links back to a web site that featured child porn and had been closed down. So, kid porn is out there but it's fairly rare and (no question about it) IS taboo and illegal. I've reconditioned hundreds of computers, literally, and found child porn on only one. Not that I go looking, but as part of rebuilding a machine, I have to back up data, no matter what it is.
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Post by beth on Jul 24, 2013 15:56:41 GMT -5
Well, I think it's rare, but one person is too many, of course. Since you've worked in the porn trade, you have a better than usual vantage. It could be that it's more likely for those who are attracted to children to be a menace on their own than to sit around, stare at pictures and talk about it. But, here, it's certainly not common.
Pornography, otoh, is very common and more now than before internet made it so accessible. Still, it doesn't seem to be out in the open, over-all. No porn-parties (pass the popcorn) in my social circles, thank you.
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Tempus Fugit
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Post by Tempus Fugit on Jul 25, 2013 0:31:55 GMT -5
2003 isn't forty years ago. And there wasn't an internet then, either. I read his memoir. I must have confused his troubles over kiddie porn with all his other legal troubles, which occurred in the 1970s. Oh well. I wish you would come up with better links, Tempus. I would be most embarrassed to quote the Daily Mail. You people are supposed to be better than that. Some of us are at work and don't have time to do more than pick the first returned result.
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Post by Tempus Fugit on Jul 25, 2013 0:38:06 GMT -5
Because court proceedings are a matter of public record and subject to media scrutiny. or all those people convicted for downloading iffy porn are a figment of the tabloid imagination, right...? You're not answering the question. If child pornography is so widespread, why is no one able to prove it? Where are the thousands of arrests, as there should be, one would think, if kiddie porn is easily "downloaded?"
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Post by mouse on Jul 25, 2013 2:32:42 GMT -5
""""If child pornography is so widespread, why is no one able to prove it? Where are the thousands of arrests, as there should be, one would think, if kiddie porn is easily "downloaded?"""""
yet again,,talk to child protection officers and childrens services ....the fact you will not accept that it has been proven beyond doubt is your problem..paul gad[gary glitter] is not even the tip of the ice berg
READ: At Least 100,000 Children Being Used in U.S. Sex Trade]
Operation iGuardian, as it was called, was run as a part of the agency's larger Operation Predator and sought to identify and arrest those who allegedly "own, trade and produce" child pornography in the United States and its territories. So far in 2013, the agency has arrested 1,674 people for this type of crime, and more than 10,000 in the last decade.
Authorities also identified and rescued 61 alleged victims in the United States, Canada, Indonesia and the Netherlands, according to a statement from ICE. The suspects, 251 of whom were men and four were women, face charges ranging from online sexual enticement of a minor to child pornography production and traveling with the intent to have sex with a minor. Some were also charged with rape and molestation and distribution of child pornography.
"Protecting our youth in the digital age requires all of us to be on the lookout for child predators abusing and extorting victims online,"
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Post by mouse on Jul 25, 2013 2:41:47 GMT -5
112 arrested in Europe over child pornography ring
112 arrested in Europe over child pornography ring
Amsterdam: Police arrested 112 people in 22 countries after a yearlong investigation into child pornography, Europol said on Friday, warning that technology is making combating the spread of child abuse images ever more difficult.
The operation targeted people sharing "the most extreme forms of video material," including images of babies and toddlers being sexually abused or raped, the European police coordination agency said.
There are 269 suspects so far and more arrests are likely after the operation uncovered previously unknown networks of child sex offenders operating on different Internet chat channels, Europol director Rob Wainwright. He called the operation a success, but noted in a statement it shows "how the Internet is helping offenders to develop better techniques for sharing images on a global basis and for protecting their identity."
"The problems involved are becoming harder to police," he said.
Among other issues, the sheer volume of encrypted material is daunting, and much of the information seized in raids is still awaiting analysis. A single suspect in Switzerland had more than 120 terabytes of data - amounting to thousands of hours of high-definition video footage.
The investigation, code named "Operation Icarus," was carried out under the leadership of Danish police, due to Danish expertise in analyzing the peer-to-peer networks that were used to share files. Nineteen men aged 24 to 55 years old are facing preliminary charges in Denmark.
Denmark's chief of national police, Jens Henrik Hoejbjerg, said 59 computers and 2,430 storage devices had been seized in Denmark alone. "It's a huge amount for our investigators to handle," said Hoejbjerg.
Europol has its headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands.
The nations involved in the investigation were Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Croatia, Norway and Switzerland.
Investigators said one of the men arrested was in the process of grooming a young child and was arrested before an attempted face-to-face meeting. They did not disclose where.
EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said the operation showed the "importance of cooperation between law enforcement authorities at European and international level to tackle criminal activities that know no borders."
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Post by mouse on Jul 25, 2013 2:42:41 GMT -5
"""Among other issues, the sheer volume of encrypted material is daunting, and much of the information seized in raids is still awaiting analysis. A single suspect in Switzerland had more than 120 terabytes of data - amounting to thousands of hours of high-definition video footage."""
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Post by mouse on Jul 25, 2013 2:46:47 GMT -5
and as if the gods were aiding...this article in the mail..actually head line Meet the woman with the most harrowing job in Britain: Sally spends her days viewing vile images as part of a tiny team battling internet porn - how DOES she cope? Internet Watch Foundation removes online images of child sexual abuse It also passes vital information to the police - and thanks to them... Britain hosts the lowest level of child abuse material of any major nation But how do Sally and her colleagues handle the horror? PUBLISHED: 00:28, 25 July 2013 | UPDATED: 08:27, 25 July 2013 Every morning a 33-year-old woman called Sally arrives for work at a nondescript office in a business park near Cambridge. Few people know what she does for a living, for it is not the kind of work you can easily chat about over dinner or drinks. The sickening images she takes home with her are hard to comprehend, let alone stomach. Day in, day out, Sally - a neat, well-dressed, dark-haired young woman who could pass for an executive - spends hours poring over pictures of children being abused, raped and tortured. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2377150/Internet-Watch-Foundation-Meet-woman-spends-days-viewing-vile-images-tiny-team-battling-internet-porn.html#ixzz2a2cDav6s Follow us: @mailonline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Sally is one of a five-strong team of analysts - four women and a man - working for the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) an independent charity set up by the internet industry 17 years ago. To date, the IWF has helped to remove more than 100,000 pages containing child sexual abuse from the web and passed vital information to the police to help them rescue victims and stop abusers. Last year alone, it received nearly 40,000 reports about suspect pages, 80 per cent of which depicted children under the age of ten. It's the kind of publicly available material that prompted the Mail's campaign to call for a crackdown on the ease at which it is accessed in homes. On Monday, David Cameron announced new measures to ensure internet users have to actively 'opt in' to adult content sites, with internet search engine filters automatically switched to filter them out. Thanks to the vigilance of workers like Sally, Britain actually hosts the lowest level of child abuse material of any major nation - less than one per cent of reports now relate to content held on British-based computers. It receives up to 170 reports a day from people who have spotted something disturbing online, which can then be blocked. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2377150/Internet-Watch-Foundation-Meet-woman-spends-days-viewing-vile-images-tiny-team-battling-internet-porn.html#ixzz2a2dYKEWl Follow us: @mailonline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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Post by josephdphillips on Jul 25, 2013 9:07:25 GMT -5
OK, I stand corrected.
Still, peer-to-peer is not mainstream technology. You have to be pretty sophisticated to find a P2P site and use the encryption. Most people are not up to it.
Hopefully, they'll arrest far more.
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Post by mouse on Jul 25, 2013 9:33:56 GMT -5
not all encrypted...or there wouldn't be 40,000 reports on suspect pages ....or around 170 a day..............
Last year alone, it received nearly 40,000 reports about suspect pages, 80 per cent of which depicted children under the age of ten
receives up to 170 reports a day from people who have spotted something disturbing online, which can then be blocked.
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Post by Tempus Fugit on Jul 26, 2013 0:27:25 GMT -5
OK, I stand corrected. Still, peer-to-peer is not mainstream technology. You have to be pretty sophisticated to find a P2P site and use the encryption. Most people are not up to it. Hopefully, they'll arrest far more. Although getting onto usenet is a piece of cheese for anyone who can already surf the 'net without any difficulty.
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