Sharyl Atkidson tells Gaetz FBI was going too. PLANT CHILD PORN on her husbands computer! She had an FBI agent tell her they have done that
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All cyber crimes laws need to be rewritten to include mandatory forensic analysis, down to the machine code level or something, to show EXACTLY how illegal files are put on a computer, or network packets travel in a hack, etc, because it's probably pretty easy to wrongfully convict someone who isn't wealthy over a cyber crime.
"Oh, this file was on YOUR device, you are guilty!" or "This hack came from YOUR IP, guilty!"
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Forensic evidence isn't going to cut it.
Why?
Because the government has backdoors at the hardware level (you can't convince me this isn't where CPU vulnerabilities weren't in play, for example. Also: see iOS backdoors) they can make anything happen the way they are fit.
Indeed, we know for a fact that the CIA has tools that can not only hide their presence in a cyber attack, but even misdirect and frame foreign nations.
It's simply very difficult to trust that sort of stuff on a drive nowadays unless corroborated by the users' actions, e.g. they are caught sneaking near children, participating in the creation of such repulsive content or selling/kidnapping children.
It's not good. It is definitely used to suppress voices they don't want, as obviously people passionate about protecting children and their innocence will jump down their throats if they are so much as accused.
Fuck. What do you think the solution could be??
You can't imprison people for possession of child porn since it's too easy to fake.
Instead, imprison people for molesting children, or making child porn, or soliciting kids for sex. Or even (maybe) for distributing child porn. But mere possession can't be a crime because it's too easy to abuse.
I think the simplest way to deal with it is to use it as a supplementary charge, something that reinforces the other child abuse charges that they're accused of.
E.g. if someone is accused of child abuse, investigation could yield possession of it and then it could be used to reinforce the allegations of abuse.
It will still be possible to abuse by unsavories, but much less likely and will raise the bar and make it both more difficult to fight and more believable to begin with.