News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of priv... by ajb on Thursday May 12, 2022 @11:34AM (#31355663)
Well yes, that's what I though 20 years ago. But I've never seen a report of actual framing of someone via CSAM. gung-ho police mistaking innocent nude kid pics, yes. Criminalisation of sexting by teenagers, yes. But framing? Haven't seen it reported.

There are two reasons I guess. One is that pedophilia is the epitome of evil in our society and even career criminals would find handling CSAM off putting and risky.

The second is that if you can hack someone, there's easier ways of taking their money. Stealing their credit cards being the obvious one. Money motivated criminals always go by the easiest route.

That doesn't rule it out. If we get an uptick in cyberwarfare, I wouldn't be surprised to see this tried, because 'authority says its okay to do this' is an effective

Re:EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of priv... by frickinLasers on Thursday May 12, 2022 @01:40PM (#31357424)
Re:EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of priv... by insta_anon on Thursday May 12, 2022 @11:59AM (#31356007)
> But I've never seen a report of actual framing of someone via CSAM

Here you go: https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/hamburg-bank-s...

Re:EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of priv... by kingcharles on Thursday May 12, 2022 @12:53PM (#31356676)
Re:EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of priv... by lamontcg on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:27PM (#31358189)
Well some other people already posted that it has actually happened.

> There are two reasons I guess. One is that pedophilia is the epitome of evil in our society and even career criminals would find handling CSAM off putting and risky.

Every time I see this argument I find it hopelessly naive.

If I was sitting on a few million in cocaine or heroin I'd be sweating bullets, but other people deal in more than that all the time.

There are people out there willing to do murder for hire, which seems like total insanity to me (huge legal risks and you have to get up close and messy and be actually willing to kill someone). Yet sociopaths out there look at their skill set and decide the fact that they're completely okay with killing people is a profitable skill they can market. Sitting on a pile of CSAM and hacking into phones to frame other people seems relatively tame by comparison, and certainly prone to attracting people who are overly-smart technically and have the weakness that they think they're so smart they'll never get caught. Far from seeming implausible, it seems highly plausible.