For those of you who are honest, you will admit that at one time or another you have browsed the net for adult material. It doesn't matter if you condone or agree with this practice, the point I have still remains.

Every once in a while, on a seemingly trusted porn site, you might have come across a video containing a young woman in a sex act. You click it, however there is no age verification legal notices or any particular trusted site source watermarked on the video. You soon realize that the girl in the video may or may not be 18 years old. So you click out of the video.
Most men and women fail to realize that those videos often remain in your Temp files. In other words you still retain ownership of that material.

Now, there are 10's of millions of people in ,United States alone, who could possibly have child porn video stored in their computer's Temp files. We're talking millions of illegal videos here.

The conspiracy I have thought of is this. If Law enforcement and DHS were to tag and track those transfers, then they could potentially have legal charges against most of it's citizens. Something they could keep on file should the time come when you start to misbehave.

This is a scary reality which could very well be happening. I can't help but recall the increasing number of high profile people torn down with charges of illegal child porn.

Any thoughts? And BTW, I'd don't really care if you like porn or not so this thread isn't about your views on internet porn. I'm just bringing up a concern so take it easy!!

[edit on 11-9-2009 by juzchilln]

Porn?!? Only perverts search for porn! Just kidding. But can't say I've ever seen these things because I'm married and dont have much time to be searching for porn.

I do however see all kinda random ads and popups on like every site I go to. I make it a habit of not clicking anything unless its something hosted on the site I'm on.

Also there are programs that will go through your computer and delete temp files and all the other crap that gets stored, you can set them to check the computer like once a day or once a week... Stuff like that. I'd reccomend trying those if you worried you have stuff stored somewhere on your comp.

Or you can manually delete all that stuff.


[edit on 11-9-2009 by jeasahtheseer]

I look at porn when ever I want(every cupple of nights, there is no conspiracy surrounding porn, you're delusional, anything posted on a public website(porn website) will be removed, even if it's child porn, the base users will not be effected.

To wit, you don't have to actually intentionally visit. Porn could pop up from a malicious ad, or a search result, or can even be emdedded in a hidden iframe on a web page.

My thoughts? Set your browser's caching to refresh from the web page every time and clear the cache when you close the browser. Don't keep anything but cookies on your puter (cookies are helpful for remembering passwords, etc.)

Don't believe me if you want, but I have never search the web for porn. Those sites are crawling with computer destroying goodies.

If you must look at internet porn then go to sites that do not promote young women or barely legal teens.

Well the laws surrounding the internet are VERY shaky and even more so with something like this. With the child pornography i believe law enforcement to be more focused on people who make and share it. If you are found to have a large collection they assume you are in on an undergorund trading ring.
People would not get in trouble for one or two files in a temp folder. In cases like this the state has to proove intent and one or two illegal temp files in a batch of legal porn would look like an honest mistake. If the LA times put out it's sunday edition and had illegal photographs in it and it was distributed the paper would be at fault. They would not go arround rounding up millions of people for possesion. Much like if you went into a bank to make a deposit and the teller gives you al the money in the drawer and hits the silent alarm for no reason at all you would not be guilty of bank robbing.
There is no conspiracy i know of on this but what i do know is that a friend of mine was a web site creater worked with an adult site for a little while. He told me that the one he worked on if yo were to search their site for anything illegal you would be directed to a fake page that displayed your IP iaddress and said it was being tracked by the FBI. They didn't really work with the FBI it just helped keep the pervs off the site.

Solution :

clean out your temp folder

Defragment

if worse comes to worse destroy physical evidence, ie HD

It is true that the FBI can easily recover deleted data from a Hard-drive that has been intentionally written over up to 13 times. However, that is the limit of recovery, currently. Military Grade tools will allow you to render deleted files unreadable by FBI standards. Likewise, At Boot Encryption is a good way to go as well, and if you use strong 4096-bit or greater Triple-Encryption then unless you provide your passphrase then no one is going to be reading that data, not even the government!

I am not afraid to admit that I watch porn. My girl-friend watches it with me and truth be told, she seems to enjoy it far more than I do. However, I've gotten into the practice of downloading the 18 U.S.C. 2257 Disclaimer with every video or picture I download and keep them in the same folder. That way, I have plausible denial-ability. Part of the law requires the "knowing" transmission or possession of Child Pornography be proven to be found guilty. If a video or picture had a 18 U.S.C. 2257 Disclaimer or Notice, then in good faith you were not "knowingly" commiting a crime. At that point, the law can go after the Source for "knowingly" distributing as well as fraud.

As far as accidentally coming across Child Pornography, I'm not saying that it doesn't exist in the open on the Internet, but I highly doubt it. Because it is something that is universally prosecuted with zeal by every nation on this planet, they are going to exist behind Authenticated Logins or traded via encrypted and trusted networks. Within a day or two of something like that being posted in the open, it is going to be taken down and everyone from the Host Provider to the person posting it is going to be either arrested or slapped with a Warrant and Subpoena.

I think a greater thing to fear, in regards to unknowingly or unwittingly possessing Child Pornography is those images that are hidden using Steganography. Pictures could be hidden undetected as other innocuous images or embedded within video. That copy of Disney's Alice in Wonderland you downloaded for your daughter might actually contain an extra 200 pictures of Kiddie Porn! That Flower Wallpaper that you downloaded for your wife's computer might actually contain another picture encrypted within it that is illegal! I might be against the overly strict IP Laws in the United States, but this is one reason alone that I obey IP Laws and only download content to my computer that is trusted or was made by myself or those that I trust. It's not just malware, spyware and viruses that you have to worry about anymore, but encrypted Kiddie Porn too.

Thankfully, the FBI’s Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE) Team, in cooperation with the Innocent Images International Task Force, have done a remarkable job at keeping most of us safe from unwittingly coming across such things, but one still can't be too careful.

If there is truly a worry of being busted, the only solution is THERMITE!

They can't find crap from a blob of formerly molten metal.

All the encryptions, unless you are a supergenius who created his own unique, never before done encryption, have their algorithms stored by the feds, so it's just a matter of looking at the files to see the encryption type and using the algorithm to break it. Easy Pezy.

Wiping your drives and overwriting is said to be secure(DOD supposedly uses 7 passes), but like was said, the govt always wins. I still use Eraser for 7 pass overwriting, but that's just for personal privacy, I have no delusion that it will stop the govt from reading what they want. They do however have a 35 pass Gutmann option but I haven't used it. the 7 pass takes a whole day, I can't imagine going 5 days without my computer.

Solution- get a Mac.


One can not be held responsible for clicking on a redirect or pop-up, anymore than one can be for spam messages sent to their e-mail account.

If anyone such as even the government wanted to frame someone, most likely they would find a way, even if you destroyed your HD.

I think it depends on what kind of threat or usefulness you serve. No doubt they have cheaper ways of getting rid of someone. Prisons cost much more than they want to spend on someone. Another reason why some are likely targeted in prisons for elimination by gangs.

When I saw the title I thought, damn Im going to jail well this is interesting. I have always been told that you cant really erase anything off your computer, someone will always be able to retrieve it. I know many watch porn but if you didnt know they were underage why should you be in jail? If there is no disclaimer then should you be jailed for not knowing? no! Shouldnt they worry about who filmed it and made it?! Anyways.....there goes more privacy.