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If the Best Buy employee is paid for a successful find, what's to prevent an entrepreneurial employee from placing his own images onto a computer?
by reverend_gonzo 10y ago
If the Best Buy employee is paid for a successful find, what's to prevent an entrepreneurial employee from placing his own images onto a computer?
- Bartweiss 10y agoThat's definitely one of the concerns, since the case at hand is about content discovered in unaddressed space. There's already some court precedent saying that such images can't be prosecuted for mere possession since it's unclear how they arrived there. In the past, that's meant "malware or remote access", but it does create concern about "the person doing the search, who put the image somewhere that there would be no record of how it arrived there".
- talmand 10y agoAs another poster has used the CI model as a comparison, there have been cases where the CI made up accusations to get paid. Which, of course, didn't go well for the target of the inaccurate allegation.
- minikites 10y agoAnd it's not like we haven't figured this out already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect