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I'm a bit disturbed that you suggest it's easier dump child porn onto somebody's hard drive than it is to dump a random bitstream onto the drive. It implies you

I'm a bit disturbed that you suggest it's easier dump child porn onto somebody's hard drive than it is to dump a random bitstream onto the drive. It implies you've got a huge cache of it hanging around ready to go.

nathan_long 14y ago
Me too. Also, it's not "easier" even if you have it. To dump data, you have to have and transmit data; to dump noise, you just need a tiny script.
ihuman 14y ago
I think he's saying it's easier to dump unencrypted vs encrypted.
- Blara 14y ago
  The point was that it doesn't have to be real data, just random data.
pyre 14y ago
> It implies you've got a huge cache of it hanging > around ready to go. In the US at least, just a single image is illegal, so there is no need for a huge cache.
- pavel_lishin 14y ago
  I imagine that a single image wouldn't quite motivate the police the same way that two gigabytes' worth would.
  - pyre 14y ago
    I remember a story about the FBI going after some college kid with a single thumbnail in his browser cache, though the other circumstances were: - Somehow they came up with his IP in a sting where a link to a file was posted somewhere. I don't know if this was posted to a kiddie porn forum (or someplace where just hanging out there is enough to make you suspicious) or just someplace like 4chan (where there's a number of people that will click the link out of curiosity). - He had 'recently' re-installed Windows. They claimed that he had obstructed justice (or some other B.S.) b/c he had destroyed evidence. (Evidence that they couldn't prove even existed, IIRC.) - He had a single thumbnail of kiddie porn in a browser cache. I think that he just settled with the Feds, but cases like this stick out in my mind because it makes it seem like we're all riding the razor's edge and could fall into the Federal justice system at any moment for some random, stupid reason. [ Plus taking down a pedophile is brownie points to local politicians, which may (or may not) be pressuring them about crime statistics. ]
TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
Let's just say it's not especially difficult to access on the darknet. (I've never done it myself, though) And getting onto the darknet is but a simple download away...
JonnieCache 14y ago
He means simpler as in "simpler to get them locked up" rather than "simpler to execute." Having lots of child porn is a sure fire way to go to prison, whereas as has been demonstrated in this thread, the laws surrounding this entropy-of-doom attack are convoluted and highly suspect.

nathan_long 14y ago

Me too. Also, it's not "easier" even if you have it. To dump data, you have to have and transmit data; to dump noise, you just need a tiny script.

ihuman 14y ago

I think he's saying it's easier to dump unencrypted vs encrypted.

Blara 14y ago
The point was that it doesn't have to be real data, just random data.

pyre 14y ago

> It implies you've got a huge cache of it hanging > around ready to go. In the US at least, just a single image is illegal, so there is no need for a huge cache.

pavel_lishin 14y ago
I imagine that a single image wouldn't quite motivate the police the same way that two gigabytes' worth would.
- pyre 14y ago
  I remember a story about the FBI going after some college kid with a single thumbnail in his browser cache, though the other circumstances were: - Somehow they came up with his IP in a sting where a link to a file was posted somewhere. I don't know if this was posted to a kiddie porn forum (or someplace where just hanging out there is enough to make you suspicious) or just someplace like 4chan (where there's a number of people that will click the link out of curiosity). - He had 'recently' re-installed Windows. They claimed that he had obstructed justice (or some other B.S.) b/c he had destroyed evidence. (Evidence that they couldn't prove even existed, IIRC.) - He had a single thumbnail of kiddie porn in a browser cache. I think that he just settled with the Feds, but cases like this stick out in my mind because it makes it seem like we're all riding the razor's edge and could fall into the Federal justice system at any moment for some random, stupid reason. [ Plus taking down a pedophile is brownie points to local politicians, which may (or may not) be pressuring them about crime statistics. ]

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago

Let's just say it's not especially difficult to access on the darknet. (I've never done it myself, though) And getting onto the darknet is but a simple download away...

JonnieCache 14y ago

He means simpler as in "simpler to get them locked up" rather than "simpler to execute." Having lots of child porn is a sure fire way to go to prison, whereas as has been demonstrated in this thread, the laws surrounding this entropy-of-doom attack are convoluted and highly suspect.