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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 so
by 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 agoWhat 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 agoI 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 agoWhat 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 agoIs 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 agoIt'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.
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