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EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer
bs0d3 writes "EU MEP Tiziano Motti (Italy), wants everything you do online to be logged and saved, for the sake of the children. Like a black box installed on every computer. He proposes an early warning system of criminal activity, specifically whenever an image of sexually abused children is detected, an alarm, goes to the authorities to be able to see who uploaded it. Tiziano Motti was a politician who just over a year ago managed to get a majority of European Members of Parliament to support the proposal to expand the data storage directive to Google searches. The purpose was to protect children from pedophiles — the same excuse he is using now. His proposal involves a technology called Logbox. And just as with an aircraft's black box, Logbox is installed on computers, laptops, smartphones, and e-readers because yes, all that can be connected to the internet."
Fuck you!
Would someone from Italy like to explain why you voted this authoritarian cunt into the EU. Go on! I'd love to hear it!
"Welcome to our world. We are the wasted youth. And we are the future too." Yes, I know these are stupid lyrics.
Studies have shown a negative correlation between the availability of porn and rape cases. IIRC this is also the case specifically with CP and child rape. If anything, this will make it worse for the children.
Not to mention the problems with a software based solution. The software will, of course, only run on certain operating systems, who is the government to mandate I purchase a particular operating system/or agree to a contract (e.g. the GPL)? Anyone who knows what they are doing can get around this anyway. Even if it calls home, it could be faked by using a VM.
I dream of a nation where a man is not judged by his skin color but by an number assigned by a credit rating agency.
They'll try to get it in "for the children", but would rather use it to preempt people that want to release unsavory information about a politician.
It'd be a black box that precedes a black-out or disappearance.
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LOLWTFBBQ ???
Vaffanculo, Signore Motti.
FTFA:
If it were China, North Korea or Saudi Arabia who had proposed this, what would we say then? It's scary in a democratic Europe to even hear a politician suggest such a thing. It is so absurd that I really hope we never have to discuss it seriously in Parliament.
-MEP Lars Christian Engstrom (Sweden)
The proposal claims to be based on users' rights and claims they are protected, that they should feel safe. He writes at the beginning that he did not want to create a new Big Brother Society. But then the whole document is about just that.
-Former Piratbyran founder and current telecomix hactivist Marcin de Kaminski
Like Members of Congress in the USA, EU MEPs come in all shapes, sizes, and states of sanity. This guy's just flying a kite, but any such law would apply the the MEPs too, and you can assume some of them have skeletons in their hard drives. Fuhgeddabouttit.
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... EU MEP Tiziano Motti (Italy) can't tell the difference between desktop PCs, laptops, smartphones and e-readers. Like most of the politicians anyway. Six or seven years ago in Greece some morons (a.k.a. the parliament majority) voted for a law to prohibit electronic gambling - On their way, they made Internet Cafés illegal as well as coin-up arcade games. It was fun to watch the police bust into Internet Cafés and arrest their owners just because they had 5-6 desktops PCs connected to the Internet.
Someone really has to tell these guys about live CDs and Tor. It's impossible to monitor absolutely everything on the internet.
Society needs witches to hunt. First case I can think of was the Christians, then the pagans, then Jews, then Muslims, then "witches", then anarchists, then gays, then communists, then terrorists, now pedophiles. Sadly, it probably won't ever end. Humans have a tendency to want to kill the one who is "different" which often leads them to counter-productive activities, which quite often do nothing to harm the group they intend to. And it seems we can always find someone irreconcilably different, no matter how many greater differences have in the past been overcome, when we are at a loss for one.
Great Intellect...
Even if this were not grossly misused(which would surely happen), with this in place the child molesters will figure out that actually molesting children is less likely to get them caught than child porn. Making an incentive to do it for real instead of looking at it...
OK, this is Slashdot but 1 MEP suggests something, and it becomes "EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer". No one is debating anything !! (Unless TFA says more: it is currently Slashdotted.)
Along with installing cameras in every home and spying on phone calls, we need to let the government log everyone's online activity, too. That'll stop those factually evil terrorists!
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
60 some odd years later, what Hitler wanted comes back to life -- a chance to spy on the people for the sake of "saving Christianity", "saving Germany", "saving Europe", "saving children", and soon, themselves.
No, thank you. This world doesn't need this kind of technology to help the modern equivalent of the KGB or the Stassi.
1984 is not a manual for politicians.
Hitler is back, in Brussels,. But don't worry. What could possibly go wrong ?
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So if someone wants to research on the subject of child porn (not search for it, but search for information about it), and therefore enters that term into Google, he will cause an alarm at the police. Yeah, that makes perfectly sense. And of course they have the perfect algorithm to detect whether a photo shows an abused child. So it will never trigger if you e.g. send a holiday photo of your child at the beach to a friend.
And of course, that box will never be used for any other purpose. Well, OK, they'll probably will soon add terrorist triggers, because terrorists are very bad, too. Don't complain about the police knocking on your door, you just shouldn't have used the word "terror" when you referred to the experience with your ex. Oh, and copyright violations for sure are also a target to be added soon. Oh, and since it is installed everywhere anyway, why not use it also for criminal investigations? And of course the secret service should have access to it. And it would surely come in handy for finding whistleblowers ...
Ah, and if it's already there, why not add more functionality? Maybe not just report, but also block unwanted content? After all, it's bad stuff you want to be blocked. And of course it will never block legitimate but unwanted stuff ...
And of course pedophiles, terrorists, copyright violators etc. won't ever find a way around it. Sure.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Italy will solve it's unemployment problem. The governmnent decided to pay half the population to spy on the other half.
"It's totaly not like the Stasi, we value freedom and privacy." commented one Italian MEP.
He surely must be taking back-handers from Murdoch. The only half-sane reason to suggest these "black boxes" would be so The Sun can run the headline "Barmy Brussels Big Brother Bill".
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The LogBox link leads to a logging subsystem for a web framework. How is that connected to something running on one's computer?
isn't this a feature of Metro already? I'm sure Apple is up for it.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
...but clearly this isn't possible. Assuming this is software based, they'd have to prevent anyone installing 'unapproved' O/Ss, Also, live boots would be out. Also, all devices without said software would have to be 'dealt with'.
Also - the LogBox linked to in the article appears to be for a ColdFusion logging library - I suspect this is either lazy journalism or politician luditism.
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Is that the sound of big brother I hear approaching?
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Children are sure going to hate life when they become adults and these black boxes were installed "for their protection" during a brief phase of their lives.
that Berlusconi's men are worrying about pedophiles.
Both this Slashdot story and TFA have a very misleading title. ONE MEP is thinking about this insane idea. It is not even in Parliament for discussion. Another MEP already vehemently spoke against it.
Come on, ideas like these pop up and fizz out all the time. I bet there are other MEPs thinking about imprisoning gay people, reinstating a theocracy, establishing re-education centers, idolizing Hitler and Stalin, and so on and so forth. That doesn't mean any of these wacky ideas come through. There are no indications that this one will.
Plus, it is not technically feasible, even with deep packet inspection. To connect the dots, to know who uploaded what where, is far from trivial, especially if the bad scary pedophile uses non-standard ways of transmitting this data. For example, what if he uses zip files? Also, there is encryption, which totally defeats this "logbox".
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TFA links to "a technology called LogBox", a logging library for ColdFusion. That doesn't make sense. IMHO log4j would be much better.
Say out loud: I'm an Aspie and I'm somewhat proud, I guess. Uh. Can I write an email in all caps instead? Hm...
One MP having a crazy idea does not mean the law will get changed over the whole of the EU. There are many examples of MPs who have changed one law but failed to change other laws. Every country has their radical MPs who make grand statements to capture media attention, it doesn't mean that their ideas will become law (we have to be thankful that the craziest ideas of the craziest US representatives haven't become law in the USA over the last 50 years).
Yes - you will, and Big Brother will be watching you.
Don't forget that this can easily be changed to also take care of political opinions and just about everything.
All while the criminals will find out that you can circumvent the filters one way or another.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
What, me? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Anyway, I'm not scared. Chances are the thing won't have drivers for linux anyway. So it will just take up space in the frame. Which space will be reclaimed and used for some other chipset first chance.
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I'm more than happy to let them have this, just as long as we also have a black box on our politicians. All addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, financial information and physical location for all the politicians, publically available, all the time.
If they've nothing to hide, they've nothing to worry about.
The people who actually molest kids are those with easy access to them. most cases of abuse are from moms, dads, stepmoms, aunts and uncles, sometimes even a teacher. They don't care if you monitor their computer because they don't need one to get what they're after. No amount of computer monitoring or demonizing things that are even tangentially related to kiddie porn will prevent or even slow down actual cases of actual abuse.
These laws are about removing people from society who don't have a "healthy" sexual attitude. That's why drawings are illegal in many places. Because it's not about reducing abuse, it's about people making themselves feel less uncomfortable about their own sexuality. In my own country, the people here are absolutely bat shit crazy when it comes to sexuality. They fear it, and they hate people who have a different attitude about it than they do. My generation is the first where simply being gay is not a crime. Hell at this point I can see things at the beach that would be illegal on my computer. There have even been people investigated for looking at porn of adults who are young looking. And if you let yourself get wrapped up in this paranoia you are helping no one and hurting everyone, including yourself.
And this needs to be said:
I would rather live in a world where occasional child abuse happens, than one where it never happens because we're all under constant surveillance.
Yep. Somebody needs to ask him why there aren't video cameras in politician's houses/offices so we can watch them and prevent corruption.
Lead us by example!
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or is the DC of Italy not trustworthy for Wintel?NSA to tell them that this comes already with every computer running a majority Operating System 7?
Mr Motti, if you manage to have such logging capabilities installed on all European systems by default, I promise I will hack it. I will hack it and use the one on your computer to find all your dirty laundry related to political and financial affairs, and I will make all of them public. It will stink so fucking much you'll praise the Lord such a logging system would never have existed. Beware...
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Where is mafia when one needs it? Wait, this guy must be one of them.
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That Tiziano Motti is an idiot and his suggestion will be laughed out of parliament.
Mr. Motti official email address at the European Parliament: tiziano.motti@europarl.europa.eu
Mr. Motti homepage: www.motti.eu
The last 3 accepted stories have had clearly misleading titles or summaries. I don't normally complain about editing on /. but christ guys, get it together.
Murphey's fighting Occam, and we're in the stands.
Forgive me for being a bit rude, but I woke up to this article. Mr. Motti, considering the reputation your PM has been gathering I must say screw you.
I am at the point I am no longer phased by the phrase "think of the children". All of this to protect kids? Dear god, at this point you might as well just take all the kids away from their parents in the hospital and raise them completely isolated from adults. Maybe even other kids so they don't even know what kids look like to be turned on by them.
An image of a child being abused? I mean, obviously this guy has no clue about technology. Still, he did not research prior censorship attempts first? The whole Green Dam (or was it River) of China's blocking a website for showing too much skin was horribly broken. Should Europeans expect their equivalent of SWAT Teams to start charging in if they look up pig farming?
And... and... *double face palms and sighs* Why the hell are politicians so apt to look at 1984 and like books as guides rather than warnings?
by Anonymous Coward: I, for one, welcome the shift from car analogies to pizza analogies. um.. overlords?
Unfortunately clueless politicians proposing illegal and amoral things are just as present in the EU everywhere else.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
They'll outlaw you and list you as a peado for using linux. Try to get around the law will you!
As long as they keep Berlusconi as PM, they are not credible at all.
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
I just mailed this to tiziano.motti@europarl.europa.eu:
And I mean it!
How about you?
Shove it up their ass.
Suddenly old computers will become valuable, and if that is illegal, I'll gladly be a part of the criminal world.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Great idea. Let's kick off this great scheme with Berlusconi's computer.
I agree that childpr0n is horrible but this is worse.
Not only are those children raped and have video's and pictures taken and posted on the internet now they are being screwed by their politicians as well?
Childpr0n is bad but Nation / European / Worldwide censorship is 100x worse. They should invest their money in actually finding and hanging the makers of this crap instead of turning everyone into an criminal.
But I highly doubt the idea will stand for long probably will get shot down the next meeting... They should jail the person/people who came up with this idea.. have they done something against the law? I don't think so but better safe then sorry, right? They might commit a crime at some point. Better jail them for the rest of their lives and make sure that doesn't happen. Lets call it precrime prevention!
Bet you $10,000 that RIAA and MPAA have their fingers in it as well and it will trigger on "stolen digital media"
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Is "the EU debating it", or is it just this one loon who has suggested it to the media? Has this suggestion made it to any committee, showed up in any directive proposal from the commission, been discussed in any meeting of the council of ministers?
If one single parliamentarian doing a mouth-fart is the same as the entire institution he's in "debating it" then the EU is also debating reinstating the death penalty, banning the building of mosques, abandoning the inner market, patenting business methods, etc etc etc.
I propose an alternative - make paedophilia punishable by a bullet to the head, and leave our privacy alone! I'm sick of the "think of the children" excuse being used as an excuse to strip more and more rights away, and increase state surveylance. If it wasn't for paedophiles, they wouldn't have this excuse. I think my proposal solved the problem neatly.
Yeah ive seen the B/W videos of life in the 40s, with some 35yo geezer married to some 14yo with the blessing of her parents.
Does this make every single old fart over 80 a pedo because that was the norm before?
Dont invent new morals, unless you want to retro actively charge 100s of millions of people as pedos in their graves.
Bottom line, govts and leos should all stop destroying lives.
Be fair, and DONT follow the book.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
There seem always to be some brute force policy which affects the privacy of all citizens, because a few criminals. Let them first solve their problems with their president who is a pedophile. I suggest that they put a logbox in his computer and publish all logs for everyone to see!
I also suggest governments should first solve their own ICT problems before exporting those to their citizens by shoving a hardware version of a bundestrojan in everyones throat.
It said log, not censor. All it needs to do is record every IP address that you access, maybe every HTTP URL. It wouldn't take anything like a sun to power it, it's functionality that's already built in to a lot of Cisco switches and takes very little processing power. Presumably the idea is that law enforcement could then retrieve it if you are suspected of politically incorrect thought and see if you have been visiting any subversive web sites. Sorry, I mean check if you've been downloading kiddie porn.
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This would have a lot more weight if you cited exactly which laws you think he has broken...
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ohh.... well that sucks.
Could we overload their system with torrent and streaming porn traffic?
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OK, that sounds easy.
But as I noted on the other comment, wouldn't that infrastructure just get saturated by torrenting and p2p?
I know some people say that those things are against the law anyway but I don't subscribe to that theory much and it isn't my point either.
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Big brother doesn't care too much about the average citizen. He's interested in getting information that can be used to blackmail those with resources or influence.
Yep, and stuff like "BACK DOWN NOW OR WE WILL BRING YOU DOWN" and making treats doesn't help at all. If anything, inane emails like that just hurt the cause.
Funny, I would have flipped that around... seems those with resources and influence try to gain information for blackmail/leverage on government. So it's a rather incestuous relationship, and frankly I wish they'd just leave average citizens out of it.
What do you wanna bet he's doing half the campaign staff
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I'm interested in their thoughts for implementing this.. It's easiest to implement in software, but they can't force everyone to use a specific version of Windows or Linux or OS X (I sure hope!!). I doubt they would develop proxy software for FreeBSD, for example. If it's in hardware, then I'm afraid you will get a big slow-down: most computers are connected to the LAN with the same interface as the WAN, so does it have to check and log all the files you transfer to your NAS? If they do destination-based filtering, then people with multiple public IPs are SOL, and anyone can use a local proxy anyway.. Well, unless that also has this tracking HW of course. This just isn't going to happen, because it screws up too much of IT.
Yeah, just like capital punishment for murder in some countries solves murders. At least with murder there is a clear definition. The end point is that the victim is dead. You make no distinction between the 19 year old who went out and had sex with a 17 year old girl, and the rapist who likes to grab little boys and anally rape them?
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You didn't send him a link to click on? Shame.
But what will we do when all the politicians are dead?
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Governments want one thing, and that is full control over the people. Here in the Netherlands, some minister suggested placing cameras in all daycare institutions. Apart from the fact that this is absolutely infeasible (costs, who has to watch all the camera's so that nothing goes unnoticed?) is this a severe violation of privacy. Furthermore, the people working at daycare institutions won't behave normally when they are under surveillance, which won't benefit the normal development of the children.
The minister could have thought of this. He is either stupid or has to hide something.
They also want to prohibit the use of face covering clothing, of course, this is in order to find anyone and identify anyone. It won't help preventing terrorism, because you still don't know who the terrorists are, whether you can see their faces or not!
They wanted to introduce "kilometer tax" (roughly translated) to make you pay per kilometer. A system should be installed in your car which keeps track of the places you can visit. For obvious reasons, this violates privacy and civil rights.
Concluding, we can say that governments are by nature totalitarian and HAVE TO BE CONTROLLED. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Many people think the above mentioned proposals are normal and accept them. Slowly, we can see our rights and privacy vanish and Orwell's predictions come true.
muckracer wrote:
>You could say, he (God/Jesus) were elected to their currently held positions in A.D. 325
>at the First Council of Nicaea, where Jesus got promoted from just being a human to
>exclusive God privileges by a, albeit tight, vote by those present at the council.
>y extension, his now official Father (sorry, Joseph!) got simultaneously a vote of confidence
>(of existence and supreme rule).
You do realize that Dan Brown's a _fiction_ author? And that he created an alternate history to make his story work?
``The council decided against the Arians overwhelmingly (of the estimated 250–318 attendees, all but two voted against Arius''
--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea
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Oh, I'd love to see that. A server that has bandwidth to cope with a duplicate of all the EU traffic.
I can see a big spike in the tax bills...
But what will we do when all the politicians are dead?
There will be much rejoicing.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
You make no distinction between the 19 year old who went out and had sex with a 17 year old girl, and the rapist who likes to grab little boys and anally rape them?
17? The age of consent where they're considering this black box, Italy, is 14
"The age of consent in Italy is 14 years, with a close-in-age exception that allows those aged 13 to engage in sexual activity with partners who are less than 3 years older. The age of consent rises to 16 if one of the participants has some kind of influence on the other (e.g. teacher, tutor, adoptive parent)."
Teachers can legally have sex with their 16 year old students. Wow, in the US you'd get 20 years for that.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Since I have a colocated server in a different jurisdiction that serves one purpose -- to act as a VPN end-point. Every connection I make from outside my home is visible only as an encrypted L2TP over IPSec packet.
Monitor away.
And for those who don't want to go to the lengths and expenses of colocating your own server, there are several inexpensive VPN services that offer the same thing.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
OK, a 14 year old going out with a 13 year old. It's not impossible - I myself was sexually active at age 14.
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Among European conservatives, a virus was spread. They want to control the Internet, because it has to be controlled. Uncontrolled things are bad. And they all try to argument that with child pornography. They did that with web blockades. We have/had a law to enforce such blockades. However, they do not execute the law and want to abolish it. They had also a law so they can log all your traffic. However, the law was abolished by the Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG = Supreme Court). And they had this state Trojan horse. However, that is illegal. As they all want it so desperate even when it is illegal and stupid and unethical, it must be a virus or it is a new drug which converts normal humans in control freaks.
What do they all want on my computer? There is nothing on it beside recorded TV series, music, and all my scientific and not so scientific publications. Oh I forgot the collection of recipes. I guess they are after the very old dope-brownie recipe.
Ah yes and Mr. Motti can be found here [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/committees/view.do?language=EN&id=96760]
It's just some company donating to his campaign trying to get a win on the Government slot machine for spending by using a politically corrupt politician to push their snake oil as a miracle cure for something. People aren't thinking of the children by any stretch of the imagination. They are either only thinking of their campaign donations or investors depending on what part of this you look at. The general public be damned since they'll be footing the bill for this if it were to go through.
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After the beta test period, where Motti has a camera in his home to prevent the much more serious crimes that officials have the power to perpetrate, we will see how much of the kiddie porn problem can be solved by jailing Motti.
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Catholic monasteries are going to protect our children from being raped? Right.
Let's protect all of our chickens in the fox den. All of our money in Wall Street. Yes, the perfect safekeeping.
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NO, because it will be a box attatched to/inside your computer that will log what you do on the Internet that the police can access when they suspect you of supporting the opposition party....I mean, of acessing kiddie porn (of course, we all know that the opposition party websites are havens for kiddie porn).
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
When every EU child has a recording box on their computer, all the pictures of them will be easily uploaded, and indeed probably "preventively" already uploaded to some EU surveillance database. Including their home webcams and personal phones. Which can be remotely activated.
I can't think of a better way to turn every EU child (and adult) into an unwilling porno star, when someone (on the inside, probably) publishes pictures take of those people without their even knowing it was their own equipment.
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And then criminals will use those computers and phones to make kiddie porn right there in the kids' homes. Brilliant!
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Teachers can legally have sex with their 16 year old students. Wow, in the US you'd get 20 years for that.
Teachers may be able to legally have sex with their 16 year old students in some states, but as we learned recently here in Ohio, there is apparently a law on the books that says teachers can't have sex with their students, ever.
Boot Windows, Linux, and ESX over the network for free.
Or a distinction between the child rapist and the random (or not so random) person who the court convicted and killed "by mistake".
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Somehow I am not bothered by this, I mean other than the fact it will be prohibitively expensive and for that reason wont happen, it will also be trivial to circumvent for those who really want to.
I mean The Great Firewall of China isn't keeping anyone who really wants to see the real web from seeing it.
Admit nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-accusations.
But is it legal in Italy for any teacher to have sex with any student, of any ages? It generally is in the US, too. Because generally in the US a person with some kind of professional power over another (as teachers have over their students) having sex with them is the basis of sexual harassment, where the sex isn't simply voluntary.
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Teachers can legally have sex with their 16 year old students. Wow, in the US you'd get 20 years for that.
If I were a high school teacher, I'd be on the first plane to Italy right now.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
Ah yes, beautiful government, where two legal adults cannot legally have sex with each other without express permission from some old fat bastard hundreds or thousands of miles away....
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
I think such law will be telling by who will be listed as exempt from monitoring.
I have to wonder which common citizens will think this is a good idea?
Thousands die each year (including many children) from drunk driving but the government doesn't force mandatory breathalyzers in cars, so why would they force black boxes for kiddie porn detection. Come on, it's just some MP making noise to get votes come next election. Move along.
~Syberz
Ludicrous measure that will fail epically, but will cause a stink among voters.
It's like politicians are conspiring to get online rights into the political mainstream. What's the recent membership trend for the Italian Pirate Party?
I read something like this and I think, who is funding this guy ? He is an Italian politician, and I have followed enough Italian politics to see no reason to assume he is on the level. That means that child porno is presumably just a cover, but what is it a cover for ? Is some intelligence agency bankrolling this tomfoolery ? Organized crime ?
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If I were him, I certainly wouldn't feel threatened by an email from someone who can't even keep their character sets straight.
I suggest Mr. Motti set an example for us all. Have him install one of these boxes on all computers he personally uses to access the Internet. Better yet, any MEP who agrees with this proposal shall voluntary install these protective devices on their systems. Obviously, the people of Europe have a right to monitor the results of a test like this, so full disclosure online of all logs would be appropriate.
Let's see how well this works for them..
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
Well, it said about providing an early warning, so I guess the data must be analysed somewhere in real-ish time.
Of course, it might just be that he's a politician, has no idea how stuff works and thinks the internet runs on magic.
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Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf:
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people.
As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children,
the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
I've said it before (and been modded "troll") and I'll say it again.
Stuff like this is why Italy is still a third-world country.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Wow, and didn't even post as anonymous coward, guess we don't need a black box for you.
AJ Henderson
Similar to this on the Simpsons.
Again, the ranting and ravings of someone clueless to the internet, yet in power deciding what we should and should not do with the internet.
Any pedophile in today's age knows how to encrypt data...and these are the real culprits,
the ones that upload mega jumbo collection of files to be distributed on the net.....
the ones that will never be decrypted because they know what they are doing....
this will only catch the stupid low end ones which do not care or know about encryption,
and mostly small time compared to what this bill is proposing the needs are for.
No - screw the children. I'm tired of looking out for the little runts all the time. I don't even have kids, so...not my problem!
I'm pretty sure magic is layer 0 in the OSI model.
Since politicians are responsible for everything that happens within their domain, the politicians should be shot if anyone commits pedophilia. <\sarcasm>
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Yea, what a lovely way to encourage the people with a chance of succeeding to rape INTERPOL.
There's this saying about picking your battles... and that right there is one battle they would choose not to fight.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
You *do* know how loose the definition of pedophile is these days, right?
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Er, his point was to flood the logs to the point of uselessness (or exceed storage, probably causing old logs to flush out)
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
If the problem is with perverts looking at child porn then solve it by stopping the small number of perverts from being able to look at it rather than installing software or hardware in every internet capable device with a graphical display (which will then lead to homebrew devices being illegal etc). A fairly simple lo-tech way would be to stop perverts looking at porn by removing the sight of convicted paedophiles. This prevents the convicted ones reoffending and provides a significant dis-incentive for the others. You could either do this permanently ala the middle ages (with a hot poker in the eye), or with some high tech medical procedure (detach the optical nerve under general anaesthetic, possibly reversable after a sentance has been served), or ironically, by strapping black boxes over their heads.
1) Failure to capitalise first word in the missive.
2) Misuse of comma in first sentence.
3) Mis-statement of purpose; Mr Motti wishes to protect children from sexual abuse. The result of this is "Big Brother"-esque monitoring reminiscent of a totalitarian reigime.
4) You state that "... this will not only not help children, but in fact harm everyone, including children." This system would, in fact, potentially protect some children. If you are going to refute this point, you need to provide evidence. Pointing out that black-box recording of all actions on a computer is only useful as a reactive measure, not proactive (nobody's life was saved in an air crash by the black box recorder. It is for ascribing blame after the fact).
5) What is a criminal offence in the EU, and which law is he breaking? You need to be specific, so he can check the legality himself. More importantly, you are not a lawyer, so do not tell a politician what is legal or illegal. He has access to entire departments of lawyers, and will be damn sure that, should it get to that stage, he will shoehorn this scheme through a loophole so small you'd think it was made with an electron gun.
6) Empty threats. Nice.
In short, I think you mean well, but your execution is dire. Find more who think like you, nominate an articulate spokesperson, and have them do the talking.
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Exceptionally disturbing. A government monitoring all network traffic to/from devices? I haven't looked at the specifications for such a device, but I imagine it would still function in a business environment as well, thus exposing proprietary company secrets in addition to other personal information. Not to mention, I'm sure such devices would easily be capable of feeding data back into computers, providing hackers with a common interface and easy monitoring system in every internet enabled device. No need to go to a coffee shop or hop on somebody's wireless to setup a MitM capture, it's already in place everywhere and you just need to figure out a way to take control of 1 to have access to millions of peoples personal information.
Apparently, in Australia, you're a pedophile if you're attracted to an "a-cup breasted" woman.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Yep, I remember that one, but can't seem to find the link. Both here and here have hardly any comments.
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My suspicion is that the law would be written so that you would be required to have a log device large enough to hold the log for however long they require the log to be held. If the authorities show up and your logs do not go back as far as the law requires, you would be just as guilty as if you did not have the device in the first place. While it might be possible to have a flood of entries in the log making it harder for the authorities to find which sites you actually visit, the odds are great that in that flood of sites will be one's that are just as, or more, incriminating than the ones you actually visit.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
Only a pedophile, terrorist, or communist would think of such a thing. Please turn yourself in to the nearest Minitrue for reprogramming.
End of lesson. You may press the button.
How about we make being a child a crime punishable by death? There's plenty of issues that children have to be protected from: sexual predators, illegal drugs, viewing pornography that has adults in it, sexting, political dissent, etc.. However, if there are no children to think of, then "think of the children" is no longer an excuse for anything. Besides, children are mostly social parasites without jobs.
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He's an ephebophile, not a pedophile or a paedophile. This law doesn't cover him, and he likely isn't a high school teacher anyway.
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I knew I shouldn't have started that diary.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
I love how just because a company comes up with some convoluted piece of software, which likely doesn't even work as advertised due to its nature, that every technology-illiterate politician thinks this is naturally perfect to force onto everyone. For the children, you know. Let's just ignore the fact that even the most basic internet filters don't work properly and install a system onto everyone's machines which can automatically flag them for felonies. That can't possibly lead to false arrest lawsuits, or waste millions of taxpayer dollars implementing and "enforcing."
Actually, I just now looked up what LogBox is, and now I'm facepalming even more. It's just a corporate logging system, to make a developer or sysadmin's job easier. So what other part of his proposed system lets them detect child pornography or illegal acts? Where does this get reported to? How much storage do you honestly think you could get away with putting in such a device to contain all of the information? Who all has access to that information? Who's paying for it? What happens if I disable it, or simply buy a computer outside of the country which doesn't contain one? What if I tampered with somebody else's device or used their machine to browse child porn sites to intentionally get them in trouble?
I also guess nobody ever told him that it's impossible to detect if an image is actually child porn if it's an image that the pedo took themselves, so it's not exactly an early warning system of any child being abused. At best, it would let them detect known child porn images already in distribution, but how long did that child have to be abused, photographed, and transmitted around to other pedos before it was entered into a database for matching against?
Oh well. It's hard for me to imagine what it must be like for people with such a blissful ignorance of technology.
Guess where it came from? And how long a history it has...
Think of "government" as an umbrella term that encompasses a number of factions, not all of which have exactly the same specific agendas but all share the same overall goal of extracting resources from the citizens for their own benefit.
I propose we logbox all politicians, including their Blackberrys, so we can see who they're doing favors for, and who's paying them for what they do.
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someone just as bad will step in, after all nature Abhors a vacumn
I, for one, am looking forward to Blackbox on every computer - or even Fluxbox...
*badam tsh*
Andrew Jackson for atrocities committed against the natives.
Franklin Roosevelt for most damage to the future of the country by making the people dependent on government, and don't forget the Japanese internment.
Out of politics we did have Jim Jones, a communist behind a facade of religion, responsible for the Guyana deaths.
Any other ideas? I'm sure I've missed some.
Selective enforcement
... being a successful politician and a successful manipulator share many of the same traits.
No, really, I thought successful politician was a subset of successful manipulator. Really. I can't come up with any examples of successful politicians who aren't successful manipulators.
"What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
"A four-foot prune."
I thought "1984" was translated into many languages, but they must have never got around to Italian.
The computers, cameras, network-switches, wires, cables. These are not the problem. Its the brains. We need to Lo-jack everyone's brain so that it explodes when it sees an illegal image. That way there are no design flaws.
Yes, but if "Trusted Computing" gains its foothold, your live CD will just be a useless coaster. Wasn't there a recent story saying to get a Windows 8 certification, a computer had to turn on the TPM module on by default? Meaning it wouldn't run an "untrusted" OS unless you shut it off in the BIOS. How long until there is no option in the BIOS to turn it off at all? The day may be coming.
Mr. Motti, I salute you: Sieg Heil!
If all else fails, pull the plug and get out...
The Life is out there...
The log-box could in fact be be the holy grail for those who would police the Internet. Any politician worth their salt would immediately recognize the money making potential here. Make the boxes compulsory and suddenly you have an instant market of epic proportions, just think how much money, money for nothing, a politician and his cronies in manufacturing can make from this, then you realize that this has a really good chance of flying.
I propose an alternative - make paedophilia punishable by a bullet to the head, and leave our privacy alone!
This makes little sense, since "pedophilia" is a description of a paraphilia, not a criminal act.
If it wasn't for paedophiles, they wouldn't have this excuse.
If you truly believe that getting rid of one excuse will make any difference whatsoever, then you'll want to look up the definition of "power grab" and take special note that it's not limited to this particular hobgoblin.
I think my proposal solved the problem neatly.
Executing people for "undesirable traits" in the absence of an actual offense has been tried more than once in history, and I defy you to find any single example that even distantly approached "neatly" in that regard. You should really be ashamed of yourself.
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