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Re:An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content... by OscarCunningham on Monday March 19, 2018 @10:40AM (#16618655)
Only by using your own stock of illegal data.
Re:An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content... by VMG on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:27PM (#16621485)
Re:An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content... by mlindner on Monday March 19, 2018 @05:56PM (#16623598)
You don't seem to understand what Steganography is and how it works. Perhaps you should read that article. You cannot produce illegal information out of non-illegal information without having that illegal information somewhere else to use as a key.
Re:An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content... by VMG on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:26AM (#16627884)
https://i.imgur.com/tn6dav0.png

the "key" is a very simple algorithm, that is obviously not illegal

Re:An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content... by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @01:15PM (#16630524)
But in that case the second image was already stored in (low significance portions) the first. A truly innocuous image won't have such stored data.
Re:An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content... by VMG on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:20PM (#16633306)
That not important.

My point is that you could unknowningly store illegal data, without blockchain being involved.

Anyone sharing the data by torrenting an apparently legal file, reposting an image, or quoting a text could redistribute potentially illegal data.

This problem is not constrained to blockchain.

Re:An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content... by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:55PM (#16633956)
> My point is that you could unknowningly store illegal data, without blockchain being involved.

The problem with blockchain is that a full node will be knowingly storing and distributing illegal content (or at least is likely to held to be, once the chain is widely known to be infested with such content.) The only way to.stop is to stop storing and interacting with the chain.

With a torrent, you could be unknowingly doing so, but very easily stop doing so with the particular content once you discovered it (without abandoning torrents altogether), which may or not be a complete bar to liability but would probably result in generally more lenient treatment in any situation other than the government is targeting you and the actual offense is pure pretext, in which case the content hardly matters.

Re:An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content... by VMG on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:40AM (#16636627)
There are many non-blockchain scenarios where there is difficult-to-remove data. How would one deal with embedded illegal data stored in firmware? Public records?

And which subsets of illegal data are legal?

Re:An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content... by otherwiseguy on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:11AM (#16618945)
Bingo.