Your computer/phone downloads images you see online all the time without your knowledge or consent. It's called caching, and it's done so that if you refresh the page, the server doesn't have to send the image again using up extra data/bandwidth.
Now of course, you shouldn't be actively going out looking for child porn. But if you happen to be scrolling through Twitter, and someone you follow has been hacked to post that illegal content, you'll have it downloaded on your machine just for being on Twitter and having it show up on your feed.
Does that make you a pedophile now? If you happened to be raided at that moment before clearing your cache, those images will be on your machine, in your cache.
Nah i saw it, i was replying to the comment "Why would LE not arrest people that download images of abuse of children again?" It's tough to know where to draw the line exactly, and we don't want them to start arresting for that cached image or two.
I tend to stay off of Twitter but that doesn't mean it can't happen elsewhere. I wouldn't want to be trapped with a cached image i had nothing to do with.
Your computer/phone downloads images you see online all the time without your knowledge or consent. It's called caching, and it's done so that if you refresh the page, the server doesn't have to send the image again using up extra data/bandwidth.
Now of course, you shouldn't be actively going out looking for child porn. But if you happen to be scrolling through Twitter, and someone you follow has been hacked to post that illegal content, you'll have it downloaded on your machine just for being on Twitter and having it show up on your feed.
Does that make you a pedophile now? If you happened to be raided at that moment before clearing your cache, those images will be on your machine, in your cache.
Just saying.
Exactly. And that's one of the ways it can get on your computer.
But the FEDs are saying simply HAVING it on your computer is crime. That's where I draw the line.
You might have skipped over the words "massive amount" in the title. Not a pic here and there from the cache.
Nah i saw it, i was replying to the comment "Why would LE not arrest people that download images of abuse of children again?" It's tough to know where to draw the line exactly, and we don't want them to start arresting for that cached image or two.
I tend to stay off of Twitter but that doesn't mean it can't happen elsewhere. I wouldn't want to be trapped with a cached image i had nothing to do with.