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People have weird hobbies! Edit: I mean he went and bought some random CDs, He discovered this really great photos but how long he is doing this for? How many

People have weird hobbies! Edit: I mean he went and bought some random CDs, He discovered this really great photos but how long he is doing this for? How many CDs he bought and looked at?

theWheez 7y ago
You'd love his DEFCON talk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY
- NickBusey 7y ago
  This is great, thanks!
iamnotacrook 7y ago
Until he finds one with a bitcoin wallet on it, I guess!
- bonestamp2 7y ago
  Hopefully the key is there with it.
  - mirimir 7y ago
    People didn't encrypt wallets, back in the day.
    - bonestamp2 7y ago
      Sure, but wouldn't you need the key to sign a transaction to move/use the coins?
      - vageli 7y ago
        A bitcoin wallet is just a collection of private keys.
        mirimir 7y ago
        And that's why it's so important to encrypt them. And for wallets controlling huge amounts, to keep them offline. Air-gapped, I mean.
      - mirimir 7y ago
        That's part of the wallet.
ethagnawl 7y ago
Jason Scott is a treasure. People will be thanking him for his preservation efforts for millennia. If you're not familiar with him and his work, check out his website (http://textfiles.com http://textfiles.com) and the excellent _Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It_ podcast (http://ascii.textfiles.com/podcast http://ascii.textfiles.com/podcast). Per the quote in the article, "people who are moved by them should consider donating to a worthy cause of their choice", if anyone is moved by these photos and doesn't know where to make a donation, you might consider supporting Jason's work on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/textfiles/posts https://www.patreon.com/textfiles/posts) or making a donation to The Internet Archive (https://archive.org/ https://archive.org/), where he works. (I'm not affiliated with Jason or The Internet Archive in any way, but I am (as you can probably tell) a big fan of both.)
djsumdog 7y ago
Potentially dangerous hobby. What if one of those CDs had child porn on it and it was in a stack he didn't look at/index. Then some Police have a warrant for something unrelated, find the CDs and charge him. Possession of such material is a strict liability crime. Intent doesn't matter, nor even knowledge that you have the material. That's what happened in the case of Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman).
- sagebird 7y ago
  What if I made a web server that returns a file that has the same content as the base64 encoded requested name? For example Echo.com/SGVsbG8.txt would return a utf8 text file with the content “hello”. If a smart ass sent a certain link to law enforcement it would serve illegal content.
  - vokep 7y ago
    I think legally its still simple, the base64 encoding is still illegal content. Just because it's not easily recognizable as so doesn't change what it is. As long as it's easy enough for law enforcement to prove the string when decoded is illegal content, then the act of sending the string is the crime. Law enforcement being in possession of it would just be evidence like usual.
- camjohnson26 7y ago
  What a dangerous law. All a bad actor has to do is plant incriminating material on a target’s computer and they can be put away for years.
  - mirimir 7y ago
    Is it possible to embed images in email, and disable display? If so, a spam campaign could leave child porn in cache on millions of machines. Or it could be targeted, combined with a SWAT.
  - whamlastxmas 7y ago
    It's even worse in the UK. Someone can put an encrypted file on a thumb drive and put it in your belongings. You're required by law to give passwords in the UK and if you're unable to, you just go to prison.

People have weird hobbies! Edit: I mean he went and bought some random CDs, He discovered this really great photos but how long he is doing this for? How many CDs he bought and looked at?

theWheez 7y ago

You'd love his DEFCON talk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY

NickBusey 7y ago
This is great, thanks!

iamnotacrook 7y ago

Until he finds one with a bitcoin wallet on it, I guess!

bonestamp2 7y ago
Hopefully the key is there with it.
- mirimir 7y ago
  People didn't encrypt wallets, back in the day.
  - bonestamp2 7y ago
    Sure, but wouldn't you need the key to sign a transaction to move/use the coins?
    - vageli 7y ago
      A bitcoin wallet is just a collection of private keys.
      - mirimir 7y ago
        And that's why it's so important to encrypt them. And for wallets controlling huge amounts, to keep them offline. Air-gapped, I mean.
    - mirimir 7y ago
      That's part of the wallet.

ethagnawl 7y ago

Jason Scott is a treasure. People will be thanking him for his preservation efforts for millennia. If you're not familiar with him and his work, check out his website (http://textfiles.com http://textfiles.com) and the excellent _Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It_ podcast (http://ascii.textfiles.com/podcast http://ascii.textfiles.com/podcast). Per the quote in the article, "people who are moved by them should consider donating to a worthy cause of their choice", if anyone is moved by these photos and doesn't know where to make a donation, you might consider supporting Jason's work on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/textfiles/posts https://www.patreon.com/textfiles/posts) or making a donation to The Internet Archive (https://archive.org/ https://archive.org/), where he works. (I'm not affiliated with Jason or The Internet Archive in any way, but I am (as you can probably tell) a big fan of both.)

djsumdog 7y ago

Potentially dangerous hobby. What if one of those CDs had child porn on it and it was in a stack he didn't look at/index. Then some Police have a warrant for something unrelated, find the CDs and charge him. Possession of such material is a strict liability crime. Intent doesn't matter, nor even knowledge that you have the material. That's what happened in the case of Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman).

sagebird 7y ago
What if I made a web server that returns a file that has the same content as the base64 encoded requested name? For example Echo.com/SGVsbG8.txt would return a utf8 text file with the content “hello”. If a smart ass sent a certain link to law enforcement it would serve illegal content.
- vokep 7y ago
  I think legally its still simple, the base64 encoding is still illegal content. Just because it's not easily recognizable as so doesn't change what it is. As long as it's easy enough for law enforcement to prove the string when decoded is illegal content, then the act of sending the string is the crime. Law enforcement being in possession of it would just be evidence like usual.
camjohnson26 7y ago
What a dangerous law. All a bad actor has to do is plant incriminating material on a target’s computer and they can be put away for years.
- mirimir 7y ago
  Is it possible to embed images in email, and disable display? If so, a spam campaign could leave child porn in cache on millions of machines. Or it could be targeted, combined with a SWAT.
- whamlastxmas 7y ago
  It's even worse in the UK. Someone can put an encrypted file on a thumb drive and put it in your belongings. You're required by law to give passwords in the UK and if you're unable to, you just go to prison.