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Man Accuses Cat of Downloading Child Porn

Posted by samzenpus on from the when-pets-go-bad dept.

bruce_the_loon writes "They have blamed viruses. They have blamed neighbors. They have accused police of planting it. In rare cases, they have admitted downloading it. This is the first time someone has accused a cat of downloading child porn onto their computer. This seems like a defense almost too stupid to be made up."

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  1. I Sympathise with the Cat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't we all want to see 12 year old pussy every once in a while?

  2. This happens a lot by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    You shouldn't let your cat surf the web unattended. Without proper supervision, they will start downloading kitty porn to your hard drive.

    1. Re:This happens a lot by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 3, Funny

      First time I ever heard about "kiddy porn", I misheard it for "kitty porn".

      For quite a while, I assumed a lot of people were getting steamed up about some weird pink anime thing, or some kind of playboy performers.

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    2. Re:This happens a lot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Especially if your cat is a purrvert.

    3. Re:This happens a lot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Jesus H. Christ. Want some cheese to go with that whine?

  3. i think you mean by loafula · · Score: 3, Funny

    kitty porn. bad, i know. lol

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    1. Re:i think you mean by Etrias · · Score: 5, Funny

      oh hai! I am on ur puter, downlodings ur pr0n.

  4. The purrrrrrrrfect ... by neonprimetime · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...alibi

  5. Appropriate comic by HEbGb · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://lol-comics.livejournal.com/63218.html

  6. lol cat by ExE122 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can haz blame?

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  7. Chris Hansen should interview the cat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He'll get to the bottom of this.

      "You walk in here on all fours naked making strange noises and rubbing against my leg..who knows what would have happened if I hadn't been here"

  8. This is why I don't own a cat by JoshuaZ · · Score: 3, Funny

    The article doesn't mention that the cat left a note for the man warning him of dire consequences if it didn't get fresh fish more frequently.

  9. Florida by NeverTheMachine · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I live there, in that town. It seems like a ton of retarded news stories come from not only here, but Florida in general.

    I feel embarrassed saying I'm from Florida sometimes.

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    1. Re:Florida by cashman73 · · Score: 4, Insightful
      I live there, in that town. It seems like a ton of retarded news stories come from not only here, but Florida in general. I feel embarrassed saying I'm from Florida sometimes.

      Yep,... that's why the state has it's own Fark tag,... =)

    2. Re:Florida by TheCarp · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Of course, then reality sets in. The best refutation I can think of is the amounts. If the car downloaded thousands of kiddie porn images, then there should be lots of other kinds of images (perhaps 100s of thousands) along with them.

      Now, I have downloaded a fair amount of porn myself since I was 16 and first got online (15 years now! wow...) anyway.... in that time, how many times, looking for porn or not, did I stumble on child porn.

      The answer: Once. While on usenet and doing the old "download multiple messages and string them together" on my Apple 2 GS which took about 5 minutes to render a JPG in black and white online... well...

      I built up a collection in those days... and one of those pictures it turned out was child porn (which wasn't evident until it was viewed on a more powerful machine with much better resolution, and in color years later)

      So one, out of, several thousand images over 15 years, was child porn. It turned up on usenet.... which nobody really uses for porn anymore as far as I know.

      I MIGHT believe this guy if a handful... 2 or 3 or something images were downloaded. I might even believe he did it himself accidentally. However.... this argument just doesn't fit the evidence.

      The only other way it would make sense is if it was taken from the cache of a freenet node he was running. However, I would think a specific case like that would be mentioned in the article, and would not necessitate the "cat story"
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  10. This proves it! by travdaddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children.

    But a cat is capable of using the Internet (not to mention framing his owner). Sorry, dog owners, cats are clearly smarter!

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  11. And for sure he used.. by ctrl-alt-canc · · Score: 3, Funny

    netcat.

  12. Note to self by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Note to self -- get a cat.

  13. Re:There is software to protect against this... by i_liek_turtles · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've learned that leaving your cat unattended with your keyboard can lead to interesting consequences. --Dexter Douglas

  14. Re:There is software to protect against this... by muyla · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the software FAQ:

    Q: My cat is deaf. Can you help me?

            A: PawSense detects the paws of even deaf cats. Even if a cat is deaf, PawSense blocks cat typing once detected. This makes it harder for the cat to mess up your programs, data files, and operating system.

            However, PawSense does not include a miracle cure for deafness.

    1 - How stupid can a person be before he is legally considered handicaped?
    2 - I wonder how much they charge extra for the deluxe package with miracle cure included!

  15. Makes jury duty attractive by smchris · · Score: 3, Funny

    If counties were smart, they'd have a "serve one, get a second silly one" deal.

  16. Re:Idle? by daremonai · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't - it was my cat who clicked on this!

  17. Re:There is software to protect against this... by Ifni · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm guessing that the question is in regards to the deterrence feature, which is likely some loud noise or pre-recorded cat-hiss, that the program emits when it detects a cat on your keyboard. From the linked page: If a cat gets on the keyboard, PawSense makes a sound that annoys cats. This teaches your cat that getting on the keyboard is bad even if humans aren't watching.

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  18. Uh oh... by bughunter · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have over 1 Quadrillion pornographic images on my computer.

    Yes, I'm a Petaphile.

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  19. CD Behind radiator by shadowknot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Working in digital forensics you hear all the ridiculous defenses dreamed up by crazy suspects and defense lawyers but this one is pretty out there! One case a colleague of mine involved the usual defense of "a trojan did it" but this was his defense for how a CD-R marked "best stuff" had gotten from the spindle on his desk, into his machine, appropriated a copy of the illicit images on his computer (which he then moved to the recycle bin!) and then hidden itself behind a radiator in a jewel case. Amazing what a little knowledge (and I do mean a very can do!

    1. Re:CD Behind radiator by Jeremi · · Score: 3, Interesting

      One case a colleague of mine involved the usual defense of "a trojan did it"

      I'm rather surprised trojans don't do it more often. It seems like a pretty viable extortion scheme:

      1. Infect victim's PC
      2. Download loads of kiddy porn to various places on the PC
      3. Email the victim: "ILLEGAL CHILD PORNOGRAPHY DETECTED ON YOUR PC at C:\WINDOWS\KIDDYPORN AND OTHER LOCATIONS. Send us $100 to purchase cleanup tool within 5 days, or the police will be notified"
      4. Wait 5 days, collect money from victim, or if no money, send an 'anonymous tip' to the police
      5. Evil profit!
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    2. Re:CD Behind radiator by Lord+Ender · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I would like to get into computer forensics, but I'm afraid I would be spending all my time going after dirty old men, rather than prosecuting real crimes with real victims and damages. Worse than that, I'm afraid I would be forced to attempt to make cases against people who had no intention of downloading illegal content at all (does a 17year 11month old girl look any different from an 18 year old?).

      So as someone who has worked in the industry, I ask you: is modern computer Forensics at all about prosecuting serious crime, or is it just playing porno police? What is your caseload like? The idea of having a hand in ruining someones life for looking at a picture of a sexually mature female just seems immoral to me, and I would want no hand in it.

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    3. Re:CD Behind radiator by shadowknot · · Score: 4, Informative

      I would like to get into computer forensics, but I'm afraid I would be spending all my time going after dirty old men, rather than prosecuting real crimes with real victims and damages. Worse than that, I'm afraid I would be forced to attempt to make cases against people who had no intention of downloading illegal content at all (does a 17year 11month old girl look any different from an 18 year old?).

      So as someone who has worked in the industry, I ask you: is modern computer Forensics at all about prosecuting serious crime, or is it just playing porno police? What is your caseload like? The idea of having a hand in ruining someones life for looking at a picture of a sexually mature female just seems immoral to me, and I would want no hand in it.

      That's a damn fine question and there are cases where it is very borderline but those cases either don't make it to court or there is a plea bargain struck where some kind of community service is involved (generally not with children!). Also, though I would say about 70% of the work the company I work for gets is Indecent Images related there is work involving differing crimes including fraud, drugs, rape, murder and people smuggling. I will not lie and say I agree with the dragnet approach our customers (mostly Police forces) seize computers and often there are many hundreds of superfluous hours of analysis poured into a case that has no merit (I had a case with 70ish exhibits in that took months of processing and ended up completely negative) but, if you can handle trawling through gigs of porn, it is a rewarding career. I would advise you not do an academic qualification in the field but get some (or use your existing) real-world computing experience and build your analytical and written skills then apply for a trainee post if you can find one. Learn the tools if you can afford it (EnCase and FTK are both hellishly expensive but the individual training courses (CF1 and CF2 for EnCase) are fairly affordable and useful for a noob). I wish you luck in your future career should you get into the industry!

  20. Need a new cat by SnarfQuest · · Score: 3, Funny

    My cat only downloads articles from wikipedia. Mostly stuff on herbs and computer pointing devices. Guess I need a cat that hasn't been spayed.

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  21. oops by hasbeard · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can't leave an unattended mouse around a cat.