I got out of the military 25 years ago. My last duty station was the Pentagon, where I did network security for the Air Force, Army, and OSD. I did network monitoring, pen tests, and monitoring/gathering evidence on the Pentagon child porn problem. IIRC that particular duty started in 1994 or 1995. Yeah - this has been going on for at least 25-30 years. Back then it was only free downloading - I don't recall seeing anyone buy cp.
My team and I had dozens of cases, many of which were prosecuted. Fortunately most of the porn we saw and archived was standard porn - not cp - so we could handle that ourselves. We would call the person involved and scare the hell out of them. If that didn't work we would call their supervisor, and if it still happened we would go much higher up the chain of command (remember we were at the Pentagon) - and it would stop.
For the cp we would archive the monitoring logs, download everything the person of interest downloaded, review the images to ensure they were cp, catalog them in an evidence book, and call whichever federal leo group that would be responsible (AFOSI, CID, NCIS, FBI, etc.) to have them open a case and review our evidence. They would do the investigations and we would make ourselves available to testify in court. My co-worker was actually flown back from Asia to testify in a case he worked on, 6 months after he left the Pentagon.
The federal agents taught us how to collect and catalog evidence, and taught us the Tanner scale so we could identify borderline ages that will or will not fly in court. They might not (for example) try to prosecute someone for an image of a girl that may be 16 or 17, or 18 or 19, without either verification of her real age or rock-solid verification by the Tanner scale. If they had borderline cases they might setup surveillance, mirror their drives, or setup a sting as well.
It just floors me that this is still going on. Maybe that is because when my team and I finally all left they transferred the responsibilities to DCIS instead of Air Force.
I got out of the military 25 years ago. My last duty station was the Pentagon, where I did network security for the Air Force, Army, and OSD. I did network monitoring, pen tests, and monitoring/gathering evidence on the Pentagon child porn problem. IIRC that particular duty started in 1994 or 1995. Yeah - this has been going on for at least 25-30 years. Back then it was only free downloading - I don't recall seeing anyone buy cp.
My team and I had dozens of cases, many of which were prosecuted. Fortunately most of the porn we saw and archived was standard porn - not cp - so we could handle that ourselves. We would call the person involved and scare the hell out of them. If that didn't work we would call their supervisor, and if it still happened we would go much higher up the chain of command (remember we were at the Pentagon) - and it would stop.
For the cp we would archive the monitoring logs, download everything the person of interest downloaded, review the images to ensure they were cp, catalog them in an evidence book, and call whichever federal leo group that would be responsible (AFOSI, CID, NCIS, FBI, etc.) to have them open a case and review our evidence. They would do the investigations and we would make ourselves available to testify in court. My co-worker was actually flown back from Asia to testify in a case he worked on, 6 months after he left the Pentagon.
The federal agents taught us how to collect and catalog evidence, and taught us the Tanner scale so we could identify borderline ages that will or will not fly in court. They might not (for example) try to prosecute someone for an image of a girl that may be 16 or 17, or 18 or 19, without either verification of her real age or rock-solid verification by the Tanner scale. If they had borderline cases they might setup surveillance, mirror their drives, or setup a sting as well.
It just floors me that this is still going on. Maybe that is because when my team and I finally all left they transferred the responsibilities to DCIS instead of Air Force.
Thanks for this SOLID information. I could not believe the sickness in DC and in human hearts but I shouldn't be surprised.
I just want people to protect their kids. It's so sick to think parents selling them, but without buyers, you would not have sellers to begin with.
Thank you for your service. What is DCIS?
My pleasure.
DCIS is Defense Criminal Investigative Service - the investigators for the DoD IG.
Thank you for that. I am amazed at the breadth of our Anons on here.