[Gllug] Missing children from Soham

[Sean Burlington]

james bell wrote:
>>Paul Gadd took a shitload of child pr0n into PC World and said "do 
>>not look at any files".... and PC Plod got their man (with help from 
>>Vogon).
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Just out of interest the technician who worked for the aforementioned
> company got the sack for that. Another well known computer company I
> have worked for actually asked engineers to look at files and had a good
> relationship with the police. While I was there we had several machines
> that were handed over to the police.


I've often wondered about this..

I mean, unless someone actually had files named kiddie_porn - or had the 
stuff as a background image a service engineer probably wouldn't stunble 
accross illegal images accidentally.

I had assumed that it was just celebrities who suffered as engineers 
poeked around in thier files

but I have since heard of someone I know of who got caught with illegal 
files after haning a laptop in for maintenance.

So do the ploice ask for routine scanning of hard disks ??

it seems from what you say that they do.

In which case this seems very dodgy to me (good to catch child abusers 
but still dodgy vis a vi civil liberties)

and if the do scan the disks - I wonder how they identify the dodgy stuf 
(maybe just look for skin tones and then get a human involved)

-- 

Sean




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