A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs

Gwaihir the Windlord writes "A university in Western Australia has started beta testing a tool that's described as 'a random breath test' to scan computers for illicit images. According to this article it's a clean bootable Linux environment. Since it doesn't write to the hard drive, the evidence is acceptable in court, at least in Australia. They're also working on versions to search for financial documents in fraud squad cases, or to search for terrorist keywords. Other than skimming off the dumb ones, does anyone really expect this to make a difference?" The article offers no details on what means the software uses to identify suspicious files.

Comments

Re:Randoms searches, Yay.

[techno-vampire]

first, England rounded up all of it's religious fanatics, and sent them to the American colonies

Not quite. Most of England's religious fanatics left of their own free will because they didn't want to be subjected to the obnoxious presence of people who didn't worship the same way they did. Most Americans either don't know it or try to forget it, but almost all of New England was founded on the basis of religious intolerance. Rhode Island was the first colony to offer true freedom of religion.

Re:Any Aussies here?

[deniable]

And you're doing it again. You can't even name the state correctly. It's Western Australia, or 'western state' isn't capitalised. Ah, forget it, I've had worse insults from far better people than you.

Was that polite and sophisticated enough for you?