# Child sex abuser is an idiot, as well as a sicko **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-sex-abuser-is-an-idiot-as-well-as-a-sicko/422015 "2007-10-09T00:24:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-sex-abuser-is-an-idiot-as-well-as-a-sicko/422015/1 "2007-10-09T00:24:38Z")
> **[INTERPOL | The International Criminal Police Organization](https://www.interpol.int/)** > > INTERPOL enables police in our 194 member countries to work together to fight international crime. So the guy has photos of himself abusing children, and he wants to share them. ‘I are SMART! I swirly my FACE!’ [Nelson Muntz] You failed to consider than the algorithm that swirled your face is easily reversed! HA-ha! [/Nelson Muntz] The guy hasn’t been caught yet, but doncha just love it when they’re that stupid? 🍺 Here’s to a rapid aprehension. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-sex-abuser-is-an-idiot-as-well-as-a-sicko/422015/2 "2007-10-09T00:28:36Z")
Sicko goes without saying, but was it stupid? The version I heard on the news said something sounded more like “extra-special super graphics program used by so-and-so police to unswirl”. If it’s just Photoshop, yeah, idiot. Hell, why not just cut your face out entirely? Moron. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-sex-abuser-is-an-idiot-as-well-as-a-sicko/422015/3 "2007-10-09T00:35:12Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Sicko goes without saying, but was it stupid? The version I heard on the news said something sounded more like “extra-special super graphics program used by so-and-so police to unswirl”. [/QUOTE] A long time ago I heard that ‘blurring’ could be undone to a large extent, so I assumed that _any_ simple digital manipulation would be fairly easy. If the guy used PhotoShop or some other popular or semi-popular editor, the police could probably get the specific algorithm easliy enough. The photos have apparently been around for about four years, so why did they just figure it out now? I’m guessing it has to do with the large case loads (especially since 2001) and a paltry budget. And yeah, if I were going to have myself photographed performing an illegal act, I’d remove my face from the photo entirely. Actually, if I were doing something illegal I wouldn’t have myself photographed or be in a situation where I _might_ be photographed doing it! ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-sex-abuser-is-an-idiot-as-well-as-a-sicko/422015/4 "2007-10-09T19:50:18Z")
It would have to be an effect where the result contained at least as much data as the original, and that data is a manipulation of the old data. The swirling effect does that. Digitizing with a large block size wouldn’t contain enough data (like you see when they edit out naughty bits on TV), and a big black box doesn’t have any relation to what was there before. Stupid not to use those. You know people though. They get a new program and now everything they do has to have the newest fonts, the newest transitions, the newest pedophile hiding effects. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-sex-abuser-is-an-idiot-as-well-as-a-sicko/422015/5 "2007-10-09T19:52:37Z")
Attendant Pit thread [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=439563) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-sex-abuser-is-an-idiot-as-well-as-a-sicko/422015/6 "2007-10-09T23:58:58Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Attendant Pit thread [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=439563) [/QUOTE] Since a thread on the same subject already exists in the appropriate forum, I’m closing this one.