My opinion about:
1. Every pedophile know about the existence of this system, so I don't think it will be useful to fight those monster, maybe only marginally;
2. Anyway, is that legal ? Even if some crazy store material on his Apple hardware isn't that illegal search non usable in law courts ?
3. Child abuse is often used as Trojan horse to introduce questionable practice. What if:
- the system is used to looking for dissidents: I look for people that have a photo of Tiananmen Square protests on their pc, for example;
- for espionage: I have the hash of some documents of interest, so all the PCs with that kind of documents could be a valuable target;
- profiling people: you have computer virus sample on your PC -> security researcher/hacker;
I think that the system is prone to all kind of privacy abuse.
4. this could be part of the previous point, but, because I think it's the final and real reason for the existence of that system, I give to this point its own section: piracy fight. I think that the one of the real reason is to discourage the exchange of illigal multimedia material to enforce copyrighs.
For the listed reasons, I think that is a bad idea. Let me know what are you thinking about.
2. Anyway, is that legal ? Even if some crazy store material on his Apple hardware isn't that illegal search non usable in law courts ?
3. Child abuse is often used as Trojan horse to introduce questionable practice. What if:
- the system is used to looking for dissidents: I look for people that have a photo of Tiananmen Square protests on their pc, for example;
- for espionage: I have the hash of some documents of interest, so all the PCs with that kind of documents could be a valuable target;
- profiling people: you have computer virus sample on your PC -> security researcher/hacker;
I think that the system is prone to all kind of privacy abuse.
4. this could be part of the previous point, but, because I think it's the final and real reason for the existence of that system, I give to this point its own section: piracy fight. I think that the one of the real reason is to discourage the exchange of illigal multimedia material to enforce copyrighs.
For the listed reasons, I think that is a bad idea. Let me know what are you thinking about.