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I don't know the laws in the US; is the police obligated to respond if someone warns them of this event? (Bob has a file matching a "bad hash".) How seriously -
by mdpopescu 11y ago
I don't know the laws in the US; is the police obligated to respond if someone warns them of this event? (Bob has a file matching a "bad hash".) How seriously - will there be a polite guy knocking on the door, or a SWAT team at 3 am? If nothing is found, and another such event occurs next month, will they have to check again?
People can come up with crazy scenarios for anything :)
- voxic11 11y agoIn the USA police are not obligated to do anything really. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columb... >"[t]he duty to provide public services is owed to the public at large, and, absent a special relationship between the police and an individual, no specific legal duty exists."
- dpark 11y agoThat's not how this works. When a service provider detects a match, they send the file when they report the match. They don't just say "hey, some file matched this hash" and then SWAT kicks down the door, because that would be stupid. They send the file, NCMEC looks at it, and then forwards it to law enforcement who also looks at it. If it's a random file that happens to collide, NCMEC won't send it to law enforcement, and if they did, law enforcement wouldn't act on it.
- mdpopescu 11y agoOk, so it's not as open to attack as I thought. Thanks for explaining.