> I guess it comes down to this black box list of hashes that no one would want to audit for pretty obvious reasons. The authority is only as good as the person

> I guess it comes down to this black box list of hashes that no one would want to audit for pretty obvious reasons. The authority is only as good as the person paid to automate the hashing process feels that day. Isn't that exactly how it is run today, however? There are actual people at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children who maintain the database and do in fact get incidentally exposed to the imagery. It's the one organization in the entire nation allowed to legally possess the actual images.