I collected some porn pics off XNXX site and they had a cool forum where users would post pics of all kinds. They do have a policy about underage pics and it’s been pretty good about it.
I made a copy on CD and gave it to my friend. Later My friend called me and said you gotta come see this pic you gave me. I asked him what man? and he no you come see it. I went and he showed it to me. It was a shaved view doggy style and I said ok?
He said look at the face of the girl. She was looking sideway and out of focus. I was trying to find what he’s talking about and I got it. It’s a face of a child, most likely a preteen. She looked too young to be a model and that wasn’t a shaved view. He gave me the CD back and I took it home and destroyed it.
I erased the folder on my PC and searched for the pic in the forum and reported it. Few days later the forum had a “crash” and lost all the pics. I knew what that mean because there are thousands upon thousands of pics in there and I don’t think they’re gonna go through them and search for more.
Instead they crashed it. Boy, the members bitched and moaned and all that but they started rebuilding their libraries all over again.
Technically it’d be pretty convenient to have a “greatest hits” digital spank bank, so one would have something to fall back on if the search selection that day sucks (e.g. doesn’t do it for you) but with the sheer amount of videos online, there’s always something. No need to keep an [easier] to find footprint.
It never occurred to me to save it in a hard drive. I just save it to my favorites on Porn Hub or whatever site I’m on. The only things I have saved are videos of me, on a flash drive. I had to ask a coworker how to get it from my phone to a flash drive, so I wouldn’t care if anyone found it.
Am I one of the few people that doesn’t have any porn on any of my devices? Or printed copies or videos? Yes some of my videos have an occasional sex scene, but that is not the main selling point of the video. My personal view has evolved to if I can’t physically reach out and touch it, my internal mental fantasy is much better than any picture.
I stream it, but yes, generally I prefer my own imagination. My ‘‘Nothing to See Here’’ folder is actually erotic fiction I wrote. There is no digital/video or image porn on any of my devices.
Nope, the filename idea was naive. The software would have a database of some physical characteristic of known photos, if not the photos themselves. I have no inside knowledge of this, but it ain’t unknown technology-just look at Google Image Search.
Well, “naïve” is a bit harsh. I understand there are more foolproof ways. But a filename search would be a “quick’n’dirty” first pass way to look for known images, before trying other more sophisticated methods. And anyway my key point was simply that a time intensive hand search would by no means be necessary.
Open a file explorer window. Select “This PC” (or equivalent) and type “file:=video” in the search window. Unless you’ve been taking steps to prevent it, you’ll find Microsoft has been keeping them for you. Hint: set your view to large icons.
That’s actually incorrect. I actually worked for about six years in computer forensics and know a little bit about the process. Mostly corporate finance stuff though. No porn, although every now and then I would get a “check out what I found on this guy’s laptop” message from a colleague.
If, for some reason, a law enforcement agency has probably cause that you are committing a felony such as child pornography (which may include setting up a sting operation with a bogus site or conversations on porn forums), a warrant will be issued to seize your computer.
Your hard drives will be sent to a computer forensics lab where a technician will image it and then search the image using any number of techniques - keyword search against file names, content and metadata, MD5 hash values against a list of known files (works even if you change the file name), even searching for skin-tone pixels.
At some point, someone will need to visually inspect the images collected. Now this part is outside my area of expertise, but I would imagine they would quickly disregard all the regular legal stuff from the images that appear to be underage children. Keeping in mind that dressing a very young looking 22 year old in a schoolgirls outfit is still legal, I would imagine that they may need to identify the subject of the photographs as well.
Or alternately, you sent your laptop to Best Buy for repair and some Geek Squad guy found your massive collection of underage German shit porn and called the police.
In any event, I suspect the chances of someone “accidently” going to jail because the police searched your computer and found the one underage picture you inadvertently downloaded is extremely remote.
I know that porn can be randomly found by police when they are searching for something else. A guy in town was being investigated for the murder of his wife, and one thing that came out was that he had an extensive porn stash. I forget the details, but there was something considered embarrassing about it. (Nothing illegal, though.) It was a big deal in town, because there were questions as to whether the news would unfairly bias jurors. (He was eventually charged.) So it can definitely come up without a warrant to search for porn.
At one point, law enforcement was trying to shut down Usenet, and “seeded” the alt.binaries.pictures.* newsgroups with underage porn. They were doing it mostly to shut down the .movies.* groups, and using child porn as a means to do it. A friend of a friend spent five years in jail as a plea bargain for having a handful of underage images among the thousands of adult images he’d downloaded. He had never done anything to any child, or even been accused of it. If he’d stuck to legal sites with age-verification, he’d never have had a problem.
They were successful, by the way. Try finding an ISP who offers Usenet access these days. The only way is to purchase your own from a 3rd party like SuperNews.
