Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Microsoft Collaborates On Child Porn Buster

Posted by Zonk on from the weirder-things-have-happened dept.

pmike_bauer writes "Microsoft and Canadian authorities on Thursday launched a software program designed to help police worldwide hunt down child porn traffickers. Police departments can use it free of charge." From the article: "The program was developed by Microsoft Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Toronto police, with the help of the Department of Homeland Security, Scotland Yard and Interpol." Update: 04/08 18:09 GMT by Z : Modified to reflect the fact that it's not Open Source.

10 of 671 comments (clear)

  1. Wow! by gazbo · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Open source AND child porn in the same story!

    Talk about your made-for-slashdot-story!

  2. Victory ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    uh ... I mean "Thriller" !!

  3. Re:Man, what a dilemma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Exactly their objective.

  4. From the article by sgant · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's interesting in how they explain this:

    Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.

    Not sure I get this...

    --

    "Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
  5. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How the fuck is this informative? He just made that shit up!

  6. BSD? by biophysics · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will they ever port it to BSD?

  7. Shamona! by kippy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Entry Number 1, Mr Michael Jac...

    Jefferson! Jefferson.

    That's just ignorant.

    --
    Blaze a trail to the New World
  8. Re:Microsft releasing OSS? *Blink* by dangitman · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I like my women like I like my coffee - ethically purchased from farming cooperatives in latin america.

    I like my women like my cigars. Strong, Cuban, with a ring size of 54.

    --
    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  9. Re:The real world just got a whole lot scarier by first.last · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia children molest Michael Jackson.

    --
    Wishing I was a millionaire since 1969.
  10. Re:Microsft releasing OSS? *Blink* by a7244270 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I like my women like I like my coffee - ethically purchased from farming cooperatives in latin america

    I like my women like I like my coffee - in a big cup.