My only concern is that it seems that FBI has replaced slipping a bag of weed into someone's car with planting child porn into their computer these days.
And the only protection against that is..there really isn't one.
You can flip the power supply and cut power from your outlet, but when you turn it on they'll probably know and be prepared.
It helps to know your PC in and out, have hidden files shown, and maintain your PC.
But non-enthusiasts, which often the people they target aren't, don't tend to power off their PCs -- at all -- and don't take the extra step to shut the power to the outlet (e.g. flip your power strip to off) which may also cause damage over time to your power supply too.
They're very vulnerable to any concerted effort, and they may not know what an %appdata% is, which probably ends up being a place where it's hidden by the people who would frame them.
Kek. I'm going to make a BD-R that is encrypted to hell and back with shit-tons of videos on it that has all sorts of messed up names like "six year old cutie in blue dress.mkv" etc etc... And all the videos are just rick-roll resized and re-processed over and over again so the files are all different sizes and dates etc.
They'll spend a months worth of NSA CPU time to break the encryption just to watch rick-roll. :)
And the passkey will be "I am not a pedophile, pig".
Had I not had backups of my hard drive the government would have been successful in wiping my drives when they hacked my computer. I have supposedly 4 FBI investigations ongoing since Sep 2018 after a Veterans Administration administrators/doctor/Chief of Staff tried to murder me by telling another doctor to take away my pain management treatment 31 days after a severe car accident. He tried to make me eat a bullet and commit suicide for them and my case was referred to the head of the Homicide division in my state. Had I not had backups of my data they would have gotten away with it. I also have IT Networking Security training so like President Trump said, "We got it all." I highly r4ecommend you back up your data regularly, update your browsers regularly and have TWO antivirus programs running simultaneously. I use Windows Defender and Malwarebytes for my AV protection. I proved they targeted then downloaded my "FBI" folder and the "Lawyers" folder first, then compressed and downloaded my entire internal backup drive, then tried to wipe all of my drives. The only reason they got into my computer in the first place is because I didn't have my browser up to date. I also have a portable solid state USB drive I keep updated and off premises as well as paid for online backup service. I highly recommend everyone do the same.
This right here is the problem with overly heavy handed laws like this. Next thing you know some poor innocent guy has a picture of a 16 year old that he genuinely thought was a 19 year old on his computer and that one picture is sending him to jail for life. There needs to be some common sense put into this stuff.
The other problem is we need to stop fucking allowing DAs to downgrade the sex trafficking charge to something stupid that doesn't have a long sentence. The problem half the time is they don't prosecute people under the charges for what they really do. The D-bag MS-13 guy that gets caught with two naked teenage girls tied up in a back room need to be actually prosecuted under laws like this and actually do 20 to life etc.
This is why I've stated before that simply 'having' anything on your own personal computer that you've FREELY downloaded from the internet shouldn't be a crime at all. I don't care what it is. Just because these criminal FBI can pull some shit exactly like you're describing.
If you RE-share, RE-post, distribute, sell whatever you've freely downloaded THEN you're crossing the illegal line and should be fined, jailed, etc, based solely on your involvement. ..but simply HAVING it on your computer shouldn't be a crime itself..because there's just way too much fraud and erroneous stuff that can happen that way.
it will never be illegal to download shit off the internet
it's the uploaders and seeders that get in trouble, along with the people that leave their shit open.
Possessing lewd material in a way that it is accessible to others, e.g. they find shit in your computer, that is the same as displaying lewd material. Displaying it is very illegal and if no one else ever saw that you had it, how would they report it?
Don't be too sure about that. They're criminally charging people for simply possessing child porn. They get in trouble for some other crime and they confiscate a person's computer or raid their home and low and behold they 'find' child porn there. All of these people are guilty until proven innocent.
And those 'red flag' laws are gonna fit right in with the FBI's crimes to punish whoever they dislike. It's not far away.
My only concern is that it seems that FBI has replaced slipping a bag of weed into someone's car with planting child porn into their computer these days.
And the only protection against that is..there really isn't one.
You can flip the power supply and cut power from your outlet, but when you turn it on they'll probably know and be prepared.
It helps to know your PC in and out, have hidden files shown, and maintain your PC.
But non-enthusiasts, which often the people they target aren't, don't tend to power off their PCs -- at all -- and don't take the extra step to shut the power to the outlet (e.g. flip your power strip to off) which may also cause damage over time to your power supply too.
They're very vulnerable to any concerted effort, and they may not know what an %appdata% is, which probably ends up being a place where it's hidden by the people who would frame them.
In digital forensics none of that actually matters.
Yes that is true.
Although this one trick can foil any digital forensics
kek
What a comprehensive and practical hack!
Kek. I'm going to make a BD-R that is encrypted to hell and back with shit-tons of videos on it that has all sorts of messed up names like "six year old cutie in blue dress.mkv" etc etc... And all the videos are just rick-roll resized and re-processed over and over again so the files are all different sizes and dates etc.
They'll spend a months worth of NSA CPU time to break the encryption just to watch rick-roll. :)
And the passkey will be "I am not a pedophile, pig".
Had I not had backups of my hard drive the government would have been successful in wiping my drives when they hacked my computer. I have supposedly 4 FBI investigations ongoing since Sep 2018 after a Veterans Administration administrators/doctor/Chief of Staff tried to murder me by telling another doctor to take away my pain management treatment 31 days after a severe car accident. He tried to make me eat a bullet and commit suicide for them and my case was referred to the head of the Homicide division in my state. Had I not had backups of my data they would have gotten away with it. I also have IT Networking Security training so like President Trump said, "We got it all." I highly r4ecommend you back up your data regularly, update your browsers regularly and have TWO antivirus programs running simultaneously. I use Windows Defender and Malwarebytes for my AV protection. I proved they targeted then downloaded my "FBI" folder and the "Lawyers" folder first, then compressed and downloaded my entire internal backup drive, then tried to wipe all of my drives. The only reason they got into my computer in the first place is because I didn't have my browser up to date. I also have a portable solid state USB drive I keep updated and off premises as well as paid for online backup service. I highly recommend everyone do the same.
This right here is the problem with overly heavy handed laws like this. Next thing you know some poor innocent guy has a picture of a 16 year old that he genuinely thought was a 19 year old on his computer and that one picture is sending him to jail for life. There needs to be some common sense put into this stuff.
The other problem is we need to stop fucking allowing DAs to downgrade the sex trafficking charge to something stupid that doesn't have a long sentence. The problem half the time is they don't prosecute people under the charges for what they really do. The D-bag MS-13 guy that gets caught with two naked teenage girls tied up in a back room need to be actually prosecuted under laws like this and actually do 20 to life etc.
it says production/distribution - not just having viewed/having them on your machine
it's a good move
Seriously.
To do that tjey must possess it. So it works both ways. Not something to fear.
This is why I've stated before that simply 'having' anything on your own personal computer that you've FREELY downloaded from the internet shouldn't be a crime at all. I don't care what it is. Just because these criminal FBI can pull some shit exactly like you're describing.
If you RE-share, RE-post, distribute, sell whatever you've freely downloaded THEN you're crossing the illegal line and should be fined, jailed, etc, based solely on your involvement. ..but simply HAVING it on your computer shouldn't be a crime itself..because there's just way too much fraud and erroneous stuff that can happen that way.
simple possession is not a "child sex crime"
it will never be illegal to download shit off the internet
it's the uploaders and seeders that get in trouble, along with the people that leave their shit open.
Possessing lewd material in a way that it is accessible to others, e.g. they find shit in your computer, that is the same as displaying lewd material. Displaying it is very illegal and if no one else ever saw that you had it, how would they report it?
Don't be too sure about that. They're criminally charging people for simply possessing child porn. They get in trouble for some other crime and they confiscate a person's computer or raid their home and low and behold they 'find' child porn there. All of these people are guilty until proven innocent. And those 'red flag' laws are gonna fit right in with the FBI's crimes to punish whoever they dislike. It's not far away.
It's like you didn't even read my post