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Kiddie Porn - The Virus Did It

Posted by michael on from the control-issues dept.

The New York Times reports on a British man who was accused of downloading child pornography, and who successfully convinced the court that a virus did it. This is at least the second time this has happened. These cases are extremely interesting since they bring together all sorts of issues of computerized agents - who is actually responsible when your computer does something?

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  1. One word... by advocate_one · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Microsoft... if it was secure in the first place then this sort of thing couldn't happen...

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    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
  2. Re:Virus? by Hentai · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not at all; I'm saying that the number of people who like to look at kiddie porn has little to no relation to the number of people actually arrested for kiddie porn.

    And pot is different in that the number of people who need to be inconvenienced must exceed the number of people who are convenienced by the status quo - and the War on Drugs has turned out to be perpetually convenient. Nevertheless, once enough high-profile conservatives are bitten for drug possession, you'll see a change.

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    -Hentai [in vita non pacem est]