by nomo » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:52 pm
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/21/19237/5443">www.dailykos.com/storyonl...19237/5443</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Barely noticed in the facts involving that NASA guy who got caught with German child porn on his home and work computers, was the tidbit that there is a program that monitors traffic on the NASA servers hunting for flesh colored pictures. It's called the ContExt skin tone filtering system and it's mentioned on page 11 of the search warrant application posted on Smoking Gun. Now, it should come as no surprise that such filtering programs exist, nor unreasonable that any corporation might employ them and share the results with law enforcement. But picture such a program running in one of those black rooms the NSA has set up at the data exchanges of major communication providers and you begin to see where I'm going with this.<br><br>Here's my guess: The next big child porn bust will be as big as they can make it, and will focus heavily on arresting consumers of illegal porn, rather than producers and distributors. Most arrested will have evidence brought against them that was accumulated via a similar filtering system running in one of those black rooms. After all, the New and Improved! Patriot Act gives law enforcement the same rights to collect wiretap evidence as ter'ist hunters. And who is going to defend a bunch of perverts? O'Really will spooge his pants the day the ACLU challenges the legality of those wiretaps. And there will be plenty to challenge. Warrants? Not before raids. This is the test case they know there will be no sympathy for the perps. They will obtain arrest and search warrants after they establish probable cause, and the evidence for probable cause will be images hoovered up by a filtering program salted with data of all known child porn. They will argue that they don't need a warrant to monitor hub traffic for illegal images for the same reason they can search your car at the boarder for drugs or illegal aliens.<br><br>All of it designed to set up the legal framework to let them continue to look at whomever, however, whenever they want. To what end, you may say? Once that framework is in place, who knows? Illegal music? Illegal words? Illegal thoughts?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
