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UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database
mrspoonsi sends news that "Data taken from tens of millions of child abuse photos and videos will shortly be used as part of a new police system to aid investigations into suspected pedophiles across the UK." The Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) will be available to authorities starting December 11th. It's been populated with data seized in earlier investigations. The database assigns a hash to each photograph, so when a new drive full of illegal images is confiscated, it can immediately be plugged in and quickly scanned to see if there are any matches. It will also catalog GPS coordinates from Exif data.
The purpose of CAID is to eliminate the duplication of effort when investigating these photos. Often when storage drives are seized, they contain thousands or millions of images, and dozens of different police departments could end up unknowingly investigating the same victims. Law enforcement liaison officer Johann Hofmann said, "We're looking at 70, 80, up to 90% work load reduction. We're seeing investigations being reduced from months to days."
The purpose of CAID is to eliminate the duplication of effort when investigating these photos. Often when storage drives are seized, they contain thousands or millions of images, and dozens of different police departments could end up unknowingly investigating the same victims. Law enforcement liaison officer Johann Hofmann said, "We're looking at 70, 80, up to 90% work load reduction. We're seeing investigations being reduced from months to days."
Torrent plox?
For the protection of the children you see, they should have a huge government database of file hashes they deem illegal. This year it's for the children, next year it's for enemy's of the state. You wait, you will see...
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I thought the USA already did this and shared the hashes with companies so they can automatically flag things. De we actually not share our list of hashes? Have we finally uncovered something privacy related the government doesn't share?
They're worried about DUPLICATION of effort?!? How about putting in some damn effort first. More than a decade and over 1000 girls in just one damn city. All the software tools in the world won't help if you turn them away at the station or refuse to do any of the work for fear of hurting feelings. Spend less on computers and more on prosecutions for those cops who let those girls suffer.
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Maybe they should, you know, NOT launch massive amounts of child abuse, inflicted by database. That sounds pretty bad.
Wait, maybe I parsed this wrong.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
I have a small problem with the phrasing "suspected pedophile". It propagates the view that being a pedophile is a crime, not that child abuse is a crime.
Would they have a database of people "suspected of having high testosterone levels" too?
The risk of innocents being caught in a dragnet is, in my opinion, not justified by the heinousness of abuse. A pedophile (or a father, a much higher risk group) who is innocent is just as innocent as a child. And someone who is guilty is just as guilty whether they're a pedophile or not.
A child, by the way, is a suspected future drug criminal with a quite high risk. Better register all children as suspects too.
Anyhow, there's a technical solution to every technical problem. In this case, a viewer that changes one pixel subtly every time an image is viewed would make hashes like this useless.
Some of the files in question may have been subject to change as they were moved from host to host, an analog to mutations in virii. By analyzing the 'mutations' in the image files, it may be possible to gain some insight into the paths the various iterations of the same image took before being found by law enforcement.
the Muhammad story has sources.
What's your source for any bride of Jesus, let alone a child?
"UK Authorities Assembling World's Largest Collection of Child Porn"
I'm more worried about the potential abuse this could cause. Someone takes a child abuse photo, attaches some EXIF data to it pointing to a person they don't like, then uploads it anonymously somewhere. Pretty soon the police are beating someone's door down, stealing all of their computers, and otherwise making their life a living hell.
My first thought was "Good, they seem to have a problem with it in the authorities."
My second thought "Crap, they mean a local databse of all that stuff. What are they going to do, copy it off an MP's hard drive?"
OK call me old-fashioned, but I totally misread the headline.
I thought this was about general child abuse, not just the sexual subset, which could be a just a small part of overall child abuse. What I was thinking of was things like poor treatment by parents, such as receiving beatings or insufficient food or having to live in a terribly dirty home, all that kind of abuses. The kind of abuse children have to be removed from their home for, placed with foster parents, etc.
In other countries, mostly eliminated in the UK, there are of course also issues such as child labour (children forced to work long hours in dangerous or hazardous conditions), depriving children of access to education (particularly girls in Muslim countries), and other serious and highly widespread forms of abuse.
Not to gloss over sexual abuse, which can be pretty bad as well of course, there's a lot more to "child abuse" than just "sexual child abuse". However equating "child abuse" to "sexual child abuse" makes us forget the other forms of abuse, which I strongly believe are far more widespread than sexual abuse. But maybe those are simply not as sexy, politically.
If they wanted to prosecute peadophiles theye'd open and release the dossier from the 80s.
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
"next year it's for enemy's of the state."
Just as well its not France, they would want a database of enemies of the language.
Fortunately for you this website is american, and freedom to mangle the language is implied in the first amendment.
Headline should read: VIP Paedophile Ring Given Boost With Stolen Data
I would like to post survivors' inputs into this story, but the ones I know personally and have already contacted are still in open-mouthed shock at the audacity of it.
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Of a closet pedophile cop...How long until this DB is hacked too? The UK has been brilliant managing governmental IT projects.
Aisha went to live with Muhammad at the age of 9 or 10. A paedophile by today's standards. Was it that unusual in the 7th century ? I do not know. Beware trying to judge peoples in other times or places by your own morals.
"homosexuality" is the gender neutral term. It includes both gays and lesbians.
"we are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
... listing all priests in Britain?
History holds NO-ONE named Jesus, except in the case of Hispanics.
Jesus is a piss poor Greek transfuckuration of "Yeshua"
Every name you have read in the Bible is a fuck-over of the original Hebrew, for no particularly good reason at all.
Does YOUR name change when you go to another country that doesn't speak your language? NO.
If you are a " Christian" , who the fuck are you praying to? You don't even know!
I bet you don't even know the name of the God you worship, and it isn't "God", it isn't Lord, it isn't Jehovah (no "J"s in Hebrew), it isn't Adonai, it isn't Elohim, most of these are titles, not names. Christians are funny, they don't know what they are doing at any given time, just that they were "told to".
There is NO evidence anywhere that Yeshua was a Pedophile, there is historical evidence that Mohammed was.
They should create a child abuser database, from which the public has access.
Most importantly it should highlight prominent pedophiles.
For a list of names, The Franklin Cover-Up would be a good place to start.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
The problem is that Mohammed is viewed as a model by which to live your own life, much as Jesus is by Christians.
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The FBI's DaLAS System has been doing this for several years now, but with things in addition to child abuse imagery. Since we shared the system with the UK they presumably just copied the relevant parts/ideas.
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The U.K. is a child abuse state. In the 70s they were sending children to known paedophiles in what they called "children's homes" they were taking children away from their parents for no other reason than being absent from school only the pretty ones of course. You can find pictures on the Internet of Edward Heath, on his boat with children and another politician and a well-known policeman. There are also pictures of Edward Heath naked on his boat with children. Cyril Smith MP would invite himself into these "children's homes" to abuse children. The British government set up a child abuse ring in Northern Ireland in "children's homes" to entrap dissidents. They created child abuse on an industrial scale in Wales, and one in Cornwall and two in Devon.
Paedophilia in the U.K. establishment makes the Internet look like small time in comparison. The U.K. media love hysteria and the spy agencies love using it to spy on everybody.
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It's totally OK to do that, though. Did you ever read any leftist history books? They judge the whole of American and European history by politically correct standards that didn't exist until after 1990, and they consider themselves completely in the right to do so. Any Western culture that had the misfortune not to foresee centuries in the future is ruthlessly judged.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Don't forget, kids develop a hell of a lot faster these days too. There were no six foot tall 10 year olds girls back then.
UK Authorities making a child abuse database when it's likely that at least a quarter of the people in power are child abusers.
Absolutely fucking stunning!
As I've always said, those that 'think of the children' are usually the ones you need to be wary of.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Why the assumption that Jesus was a virgin?
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This is pure bullshit. You are a bigot and an idiot.
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Probably it's emerging that the best predictor for pedophelia is the perps vehemence in proclaiming his religious convictions.
Opus Dei. OPUS. Idiot.
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And the problem with that, of course, is that a good decade of Jesus' life is undocumented - lord only knows (pun definitely intended) what kind of trouble He got into in His 20's.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Statistically speaking, at least 1 of the Apostles had to be gay. My guess is Simon.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
A paedophile by today's standards.
It's a modern term, logically, it has a modern standard. But just because people in the past didn't know the notion of brain aneurysms doesn't mean that they didn't occasionally drop dead. This is medical issue, not a cultural one.
Ezekiel 23:20
Wow, what a logical and well thought out counterpoint to my completely backed up and logical argument.
WTF?
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uh... he wasn't, he took a prostitute. Even sired a child (Judah)
(source: the Jerusalem Ossuary)
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
No statistically speaking at least one of them was most probably gay and its likely more than one were. Statistically speaking nothing is ruled out, including that they were all gay or none of them were.
Lets say it was completely random selection of individuals, and 10% of the population is gay. Since no one selection decreases the population significantly, each choice has a 9 out of 10 chance of not being gay. Which maybe my math is wrong but (9/10)^12 is .28, or 28% or about 1 in 3 chance of picking an all straight group of appostles.
I wouldn't place many bets on a 1 in 3 chance, but, I wouldn't bet much against it either.
This of course assumes that there is no bias that would say, make gay men more available or more likely to want to be apostles, which, is hard to quantify, and might skew things a bit, but its hard to imagine enough to offset the starting 1/10 starting proportion.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
or the police don't have the name of the victim.
You're a police man, you see a man raping a 4 year old girl so you arrest him. You go to his home and confiscate his computer, and find a dozen images (or more likely tens of thousands) of images of small girls being abused.
Do you know who the dozen small girls are? Do you know whether they're still all 4 years old, or whether they're now in their 50s?
So you're a policeman, so you want to know who those small girls are. They may need help. They may still be getting abused. Sadly the criminal hasn't built a large metadata index matching the abused girls to their name, address, date of birth...
Knowing that 90% of the images have already been investigated because they were found on a previous criminal's hard drive means you can focus your resources on the remaining 10%. That's kind of useful.
not necessarily rejected, they may merely be lost then found (cf. The Dead Sea Scrolls).
Just because the Jerusalem Ossuary was only discovered in 1980 (and quickly authenticated as it was immediately suspected how significant such a find might be) doesn't mean it was to be buried and forgotten. Were that the case, they might just as well have incinerated it.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel