Thursday, October 1, 2009

Real police work - not a filter.

Spy software, then police, swoop on child porn file sharers.

POLICE have secretly identified thousands of suspects who are allegedly trading child pornography images through online networks. Detectives expect to make hundreds of arrests, having used a breakthrough software program to spy on files held in private computers.

Designed in the US to pinpoint computers holding known child pornographic images, the software has been used in Queensland for six months.


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Is Conroy's filter going to stop the police from being able to find and act on this information.