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It's still bad. I used to scrape pictures from many legal pornography sites. I still have hundreds of thousands of pictures. Since many are user uploaded, I ima

It's still bad. I used to scrape pictures from many legal pornography sites. I still have hundreds of thousands of pictures. Since many are user uploaded, I imagine a small number could be real CP. Thank God, I don't use Apple. (I should probably delete them, since I've basically never used them... although they could be useful for one of those end-of-world Raspberry Pi builds: https://back7.co/home/raspberry-pi-quick-kit-one https://back7.co/home/raspberry-pi-quick-kit-one Edit: the non-bad ones, in case this gets misconstrued) Edit: I've deleted my archive.

tracedddd 5y ago
Yeah, might want to consider deleting them. That could turn into a nightmare.
cududa 5y ago
I’ve never once wanted GIF support on HN comments until this moment. Good god man what is wrong with you
UncleMeat 5y ago
> Since many are user uploaded, I imagine a small number must be real CP. I mean, that is actually illegal. The problem here is the possession of child pornography.
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get52 5y ago
No offence dennis but I gotta be a bit blunt here. If you're not trolling then you're being a fucking idiot, you could land serious prison time for having a shit ton of child porn on you. If you live in a country where it's illegal delete literally all of it of the hard drive, run DBAN on it, smash it to pieces with a hammer and then set the hard drive on fucking fire. Literally zero courts are gonna believe "It's just a dataset for if I want to train an AI on it later XD". You will get horsefucked in court
- xdennis 5y ago
  I didn't have "a shit ton". I said that out of ~x00000 images, some might be bad. But, yeah, I've deleted them now.
  - get52 5y ago
    Good I'm glad, I was only harsh because I don't want to see an innocent programmer tossed in jail because of one mistake. xoxo
dopamean 5y ago
If you think there's a reasonable chance that you have CP on your computer why wouldn't you delete all the stuff? This is not complicated.
- pas 5y ago
  cat /dev/urandom and it also has CP, oh noes! quick delete everything. Hoarding porn is kind of useless nowadays, especially without any kind of selection and categorization, but maybe someone does it because it's their hobby (or obsession), who knows. Also if a lot of people has a bunch of porn images scraped from forums it's quite possible that eventually some of that might become illegal as the laws change here or there around the world. Should they proactively delete everything? Sure, they could. To be safe. But this kind of safety is absolutely the bad kind on the long term. (Though of course it's possible to advocate for reform while not storing content with uncertain legality.)
  - get52 5y ago
    Dude, this is all great in theory but in a court of law you'll get completely horsefucked if you have child porn on your hard drive. The judge and jury won't care about /dev/random or a fall to reform
    - h_anna_h 5y ago
      You would think that in our "great" and "fair" legal system simply scrapping a legal site would not be enough to ruin your life. Especially if no harm was done and no intention of harm was there.
      - get52 5y ago
        Believe me, as someone who runs a website I completely agree with you. I just also know the courts will not be understanding under any circumstance. I don't allow image uploads at all now out of fear I'll back up my site and accidentally download CP. It's ridiculous, all it takes is one dumbfuck pedophile uploading a single file ( completely out of my control ) and I'll get thrown in prison for 10 years

tracedddd 5y ago

Yeah, might want to consider deleting them. That could turn into a nightmare.

cududa 5y ago

I’ve never once wanted GIF support on HN comments until this moment. Good god man what is wrong with you

UncleMeat 5y ago

> Since many are user uploaded, I imagine a small number must be real CP. I mean, that is actually illegal. The problem here is the possession of child pornography.

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get52 5y ago

No offence dennis but I gotta be a bit blunt here. If you're not trolling then you're being a fucking idiot, you could land serious prison time for having a shit ton of child porn on you. If you live in a country where it's illegal delete literally all of it of the hard drive, run DBAN on it, smash it to pieces with a hammer and then set the hard drive on fucking fire. Literally zero courts are gonna believe "It's just a dataset for if I want to train an AI on it later XD". You will get horsefucked in court

xdennis 5y ago
I didn't have "a shit ton". I said that out of ~x00000 images, some might be bad. But, yeah, I've deleted them now.
- get52 5y ago
  Good I'm glad, I was only harsh because I don't want to see an innocent programmer tossed in jail because of one mistake. xoxo

dopamean 5y ago

If you think there's a reasonable chance that you have CP on your computer why wouldn't you delete all the stuff? This is not complicated.

pas 5y ago
cat /dev/urandom and it also has CP, oh noes! quick delete everything. Hoarding porn is kind of useless nowadays, especially without any kind of selection and categorization, but maybe someone does it because it's their hobby (or obsession), who knows. Also if a lot of people has a bunch of porn images scraped from forums it's quite possible that eventually some of that might become illegal as the laws change here or there around the world. Should they proactively delete everything? Sure, they could. To be safe. But this kind of safety is absolutely the bad kind on the long term. (Though of course it's possible to advocate for reform while not storing content with uncertain legality.)
- get52 5y ago
  Dude, this is all great in theory but in a court of law you'll get completely horsefucked if you have child porn on your hard drive. The judge and jury won't care about /dev/random or a fall to reform
  - h_anna_h 5y ago
    You would think that in our "great" and "fair" legal system simply scrapping a legal site would not be enough to ruin your life. Especially if no harm was done and no intention of harm was there.
    - get52 5y ago
      Believe me, as someone who runs a website I completely agree with you. I just also know the courts will not be understanding under any circumstance. I don't allow image uploads at all now out of fear I'll back up my site and accidentally download CP. It's ridiculous, all it takes is one dumbfuck pedophile uploading a single file ( completely out of my control ) and I'll get thrown in prison for 10 years