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Well, I agree with that to some extent. I have a bit of faith in companies like Google and Microsoft though. If suddenly their feed of illicit image hashes beg
by meowface 12y ago
Well, I agree with that to some extent.
I have a bit of faith in companies like Google and Microsoft though. If suddenly their feed of illicit image hashes began to contain content related to politics or protecting government secrets, I think they'd raise hell. I also don't think the FBI would be dumb enough to start pushing that sort of stuff and harming the relationship they have with tech companies.
Now, I can very much see NSA doing that kind of content inspection without the companies knowing about it. And that's not just because we already know it's been happening for years.
But law enforcement != intelligence, or at least it shouldn't. The FBI does still have a corps of good old fashioned cops, even if they're now getting more and more into the intelligence side of things.
- tptacek 12y agoYou'll probably feel marginally better to know that the corpus of hashes is managed not by the FBI, but by NCMEC, an NGO.
- meowface 12y agoAh, that makes even more sense. And it makes it even more annoying that the original article didn't include any of this information (what Google is actually doing to find these, how hashing works, who manages the hashes) just to make a more sensationalist piece.
- tptacek 12y agoWelcome to Club "Tracking Down Primary Sources And Talking About Them On HN Threads"! We have jackets!