Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
You guys think the skateboarding scene in the Simpsons is porn? Jesus Christ.
no, quite the opposite actually.Lost Fragment said:You guys think the skateboarding scene in the Simpsons is porn? Jesus Christ.
innervision961 said:What happens in the skateboard scene? So do you guys think there is more to this story? And honestly, what if you do go to 4chan, if you've never clicked on an image or nefarious link, how can you be liable for what someone else uploads to the Internet if you aren't seeking it out?
Pandaman said:even more amusing are laws against drawn child pornography.
anyone remember the skateboarding scene in the simpsons movie?
As has been said, when you "delete" something, you don't actually delete it. You just give your OS permission to forget that it's there, and maybe at some point in the future it happens to get overwritten. So the only way to "erase" a hard drive is to write a zero to every little one or zero on the drive.orioto said:There is something that bugs me every times with this "we can reconstruct anything that has been deleted on your computer" thing.
Wouldn't that mean that you can have infinite storage place on any hard drive :lol ??
Wonder how this would work in the world of SSDs.ruby_onix said:As has been said, when you "delete" something, you don't actually delete it. You just give your OS permission to forget that it's there, and maybe at some point in the future it happens to get overwritten. So the only way to "erase" a hard drive is to write a zero to every little one or zero on the drive.
Buuuttt... hard drives are magnetic. They're basically analog, not digital. If you wipe zeroes across your entire hard drive, then it's good enough to count as zeroed as you would normally read it (or use a program to find deleted files), but if the FBI takes your discs into their lab and rips them apart and looks at them close enough under a microscope (apparently they have nothing better to do), there will be a little "echo" difference in that the zeroes which used to be zeroes still look like zeroes, but the zeroes which used to be ones look slightly like ones. They can use this magnetic echo to figure out what you used to have, even if you deleted everything and wiped your drive clean.
If something incriminating has been overwritten by normal use, and they can figure out exactly what files overwrote it, they can even compensate for that and still dig up all your dirty little ones and zeroes.
It's said that to completely erase a hard drive, you have to wipe it with ones, then zeroes, then ones again, then zeroes again, then ones again, and then finally another layer of zeroes. Six passes. Probably doesn't hurt to spill random data all over the drive afterward either. Unless you randomly create child porn. That would hurt a lot.
So no, your hard drive doesn't have infinite capacity. Maybe you can double or even triple (if you can read an echo inside another echo) it's capacity if you had limitless resources, but each increase is incredibly flaky and unreliable and not really useful.
If you happen to want to bail out of the internet now, a liberal amount of fire is much faster than formatting. Just make sure you get it all, and don't leave behind any unburnt bits.
ajim said:I think threads like this show that people should be more computer savvy and even consider full drive encryption, especially for their laptops. Not so much for things like this, but, computers these days are our lives, we do everything with them, our taxes, work related stuff, personal details, banking etc
neoism said:Wow that's fucked up!
Onny said:And bear in mind that (in the UK, at least) if you don't tell the authorities the passphrases to your encrypted volumes, you are liable for 2 years in jail.
Darklord said:You can also be jailed for finding a gun and handing it into the police so it's not like police haven't pulled this kind of crap before.
I bet the jury won't find him innocent either. A man going up on child porn charges means half of them would already call him guilty without seeing a scrap of evidence.
Sol.. said:I have trouble believing this was accidental and if it was it was a law enforcement plant.
p.s. I was just laughing at a friend today when he mentioned searching for porn on frostwire. who fuckin' does that? WHO DOES THAT?!
Onny said:Hello!
Solideliquid said:Well this guy erased the image too, right? Seems the FBI has secret ninja skills and find those pics easily.
Onny said:- Different filesystems have different ways of dealing with deletions, but it is correct to say in broad terms that when you delete a file the filesystem does not remove the data itself from the disk, which is why data can be recovered which has previously been deleted.
eggandI said:Also, how the hell do you download a jpg when trying to download a GGW video? did this guy not notice the difference between .jpg and .avi or the damn file size? Haha there is no way he is telling the whole story. :lol
Milk Lizard said:Well they dont want to have wasted their time. I remember the days of kazaa and shitty p2p like that and accidentally downloading all kind of weird sick porn by searching for live concerts.
xelios said:Yeah, I think it's a bit naive to just assume there's not more to the story. If you downloaded a pic on accident while searching for something else I have a hard time believing the FBI would be this aggressive. They'd also be able to see what you searched for in the first place to stumble upon that file, which would be "intent".
Been burned too many times by stories like these when more info comes out to not be skeptical. I guess since he's pleading guilty we won't get more info in trial, oh well.
eggandI said:Also, how the hell do you download a jpg when trying to download a GGW video? did this guy not notice the difference between .jpg and .avi or the damn file size? Haha there is no way he is telling the whole story. :lol
WickedAngel said:Trust me, they are absolutely ruthless with suspects of pedophilia. My instructor is a former FBI investigator for this sort of crime. We've met former prosecutors in the field; if you're in their spotlight, you're guilty until proven innocent.
DR2K said:How much child pornography was 'accidentally' downloaded?
:lol You straight dudes have it rough though, what if you dont like those fake big boobed woman? Its the era of amateur with no real way to tell ages at the lower bracket.Drek said:See, this is why you got to stick with name brand American made porn. They protect you from this shit.
I know I'll never accidentally get kiddy porn, because all my porn is high quality Hustler, Red Light District, Brazzers, Bang Bros., etc. products with girls that I've seen gobbling knobs for long enough to know that they are FBI approved.
Be safe, steal American!
WickedAngel said:We recently had to interface with the GBI because of child pornography found on a customer computer. In all likelihood, the pornography was put on there by a virus. It's even possible that their computer was used as remote storage for a real pedophile because the computer was entirely vulnerable (Weak firewall settings, no antivirus/antispyware). Computer illiteracy is fucking dangerous now.
quadriplegicjon said:jesus.. that freaks me out. what is happening to them? how do you prove that? i have always wondered what would happen if someone broke into my wireless network and did illegal shit.. how would i prove it wasn't me? what a mess.
The fuck are you talking about, srsly?Milk Lizard said:If you think 12chan is bad you haven't visited russian 2chan... They managed to freak out /b/ which is a pretty big achievement.
vital said:
Onny said:Hello!
Lots of uninformed crap going on in this thread.. hope I can shed some light on some of these issues!
I work for a Law Enforcement Agency, as a Digital Forensic Specialist. So I deal with recovering data and all that jazz.
First of all, regarding the case itself; we are hearing the suspect talk about his side of the case, not what may be the truth. Personally, knowing what I know about how filesystems work, I would be amazed if he had downloaded child porn by accident a year ago, deleted it, and it would still show up in the unallocated space on his HDD. To my mind, the only way this would happen would be if maybe he deleted the images, switched off his PC and didn't use it until the feds knocked on his door. So yeah, that's highly suspicious.
Secondly, why would the FBI "suddenly" turn up at his house a year after the event? If this was specifically due to his "accidentally" downloaded CP then TBFH they could have turned up the next day. And what could have brought him to their attention? It all sounds very fishy.
Finally, bear in mind that this case still has to go to trial, so the jury may yet still find him innocent. If all that he says is true, then IMO he has a reasonable chance of getting off. So to speak (tee hee!).
It is very easy to beat your chest and say how unfair all of this is, but you really need to think about why it has happened. Do you really think your investigators have the time to be chasing after a guy who accidentally a CP image over a p2p network once? Of course they don't.
Other items of business:
- TrueCrypt and other encryption techniques are good but not perfect. And bear in mind that (in the UK, at least) if you don't tell the authorities the passphrases to your encrypted volumes, you are liable for 2 years in jail.
- Different filesystems have different ways of dealing with deletions, but it is correct to say in broad terms that when you delete a file the filesystem does not remove the data itself from the disk, which is why data can be recovered which has previously been deleted.
Hope that's helped a little bit. I can go into the more technical details of file recovery if you'd like, but to be honest there are far better recources online. Christ, just look up FAT or NTFS on wikipedia, that's a good start.
NaughtyCalibur said:Wasn't there a story not too long ago about a guy getting into serious legal trouble over some fictional erotic stories he wrote at one point in his life depicting minors engaging in sexual acts that ended up on a computer at work? I mean, if you can get locked up over fictional text, then anything goes really.
vital said:
a teen girl from Licking Valley High Schoo
Medalion said:This is about censoring all sexuality with kids under the ages of16, not about being a sex offender, it was for a higher moral victory they were making an example of that girl.
While the teen girl who sent these nude pictures of herself to others via MMS is not alone, she has been the only person arrested. She also spent a weekend in jail awaiting arraignment and a bond hearing. The statute she has been accused of breaking has exemptions in place that allows parents and/or guardians to take pictures of their naked children for a list of acceptable purposes. Interestingly, the statute does not provide the same exemption for the child themselves. While the consequences for her have already been laid out by the prosecutor in the charges, the recipients of her messages may be also facing prosecution for their passive role(s) in this incident.
allows parents and/or guardians to take pictures of their naked children for a list of acceptable purposes.
a list of acceptable purposes
teh_pwn said:The other thing I don't understand is suppose he is guilty. Suppose he did have a couple of images a year ago and intentionally deleted, and then pleaded guilty in court. 20 years for that? People get away with less with murder.
Child pornography is available on huge portions of the internet?Kipz said:Let's just stay clear from huge portions of the internet due to draconian laws.
itsgreen said:He must have done something, else you wouldn't settle.
3,5 vs 20... ok.
But afaik, and i'm no American, your life completely fucked when you get a sexoffender registration.
Would fight it till my death.
Ignis Fatuus said:Child pornography is available on huge portions of the internet?
kame-sennin said:If prosecutor's did not have the ability to threaten defendants with draconian sentences, it would be much more difficult to get plea bargains (i.e. convictions) in cases like these. The people who are casting doubt on the defendant solely on the basis of his accepting a plea are missing the entire point of the modern judicial system. Massive sentences are used as leverage by prosecutors to score convictions without having to go to trial. If you think you would fight to maintain your innocence, you don't understand the intimidation factor that's at work here. For a person being put through this system, their incarceration is a foregone conclusion. All that's left for them to decide is how harshly the court will treat them.
On television, clever defense attorneys come up with brilliant legal strategies to protect their clients. But in real life, over 90 percent of people charged are subsequently convicted. Both the prosecutor and your shitty public defender would make this clear to you, and you'd plead guilty too.
This is the general policy not just with sex offenders, but with most crimes. Prosecutor's lobby really hard to get maximum sentences raised, promising it will increase convictions. Politicians who want to appear tough on crime vote to increase penalties and as a bonus, are able to tout higher conviction rates in their districts come election time.