On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:19:36PM +0100, Lasse Øverlier wrote: > If we already stop spam and bittorrent I think this is much worse! I disagree (as a parent, and a Tor operator who got a BKA case about pedophilia on his hands, which is still open -- at least there is yet no usual offical letter declaring it closed, so I take that as a negative). Here's why. There's no evidence that access to pedophilia pornography increases abuse rate of the kids. These are your normal garden-variety paraphiliacs. Mostly quite harmless, and quite incurable. If a known offender, best put on a watch list. Most of the abuse cases occur within the circle of relatives. Since the making of the material (unless it's completely CGI) involves hurting kids, that is clearly something which needs to be persecuted. Howevever, arguably it is possible to trace the social network to the producer nodes in the classical gumshoe and (hardware) bug strategy. Especially, if monetary streams are concerned. Tracing these back is never particularly difficult (in fact, my own dear country is perhaps leading in that respect by financial operators voluntarily turning over their transaction records (on a nice request, not a judge warrant) for some 20 million credit card customers, matching a transfer of a particular sum to a particular account -- while being vigorously denied being a dragnet investigation, despite the query being exactly that like a database data-mining query, only using an institutional API). This is a feel-good strategy. Let's publicly nail a few widely hated perverts, while studiously avoiding spending some funds, and sending social workers to the families, where most of the cases, and mostly unreported, too, lie. Also, the real question we really have to ask ourselves is: how much of "guilty until proven innocent" can an open society stand, before becoming something else? My impression is that most of our western democracies well on their way to becoming something else. Hardly a day passes at which I'm not cringing at the news. (Today was a notable exception). We really don't need to catch a roaring case of Brinworld, leading us all directly into the Emergents (Vinge) local pessimum. Look it up. You will probably not like it. As such I salute all you exit node Tor operators, which takes serious cojones de latón nowadays. Kudos. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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