[Gllug] Missing children from Soham

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:44:28AM +0100, Sean Burlington wrote:

> 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)

Hmmm makes me feel glad{*} that when I last sent a laptop off for repair that I
removed the hard disk. The reason that I did so was 'cos I didn't want some clueless
engineer doing some M$ disk check & deciding that something was wrong & so reinstalling
the boot sector (or worse) -- something that I have seen before.

This was Gateway (nice PCs, crappy admin). It still came back with the job log claiming
that it had been virus checked.

{*} Not 'cos I have p0rn sitting on my disk, but more that I don't like people
poking around in my files.

-- 
Alain Williams

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