Re:EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of priv...
by lamontcg on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:27PM
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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.
> 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.