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[ NNSquad ] New York AG, Facebook, etc. announce c-porn "hash value" project
New York AG, Facebook, etc. announce c-porn "hash value" project http://bit.ly/cSVAjd (ABC News) Of course, despite its presumably laudable motives, this will end up being primarily a political stunt. Just a couple of the many reasons why: - Even sophisticated hash value algorithms can be defeated with some effort at image manipulation. Simpler algorithms can be trivially defeated. - Only people naive enough to post such images "in the clear" on the participating sites would be vulnerable to such checks. Even mandates for scanning of e-mail could be defeated through simple encryption. Interestingly, you can find discussions of the limitations of this technique as far back as two years ago and more, when this concept was also being widely discussed: http://bit.ly/aj4Wap (ars technica) --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator