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Posted by Dante on Thursday, December 11 2014 at 3:34:03PM
In reply to [link]UK warns 'pedophiles have nowhere to hide' posted by Husky on Thursday, December 11 2014 at 02:27:13AM

Meanwhile, according to my sources, their ability to even remove the most widely distributed series from plain view on the open net are coming to naught.

You'd think that the purported software that could track well known images could automate the removal of well known decades old imagery.

Methinks that there's two things going on, and neither of them have to do with the eternal game of Internet whack-a-mole. The first is outright lying and claiming that they have technological resources better than word recognition for file names. ( Removing all images entitled "Mona Lisa" without being able to recognize the image when its called "127476560." ) And the other may very well be NOT wanting to use a tool that would allow search engines to remove the images from their sting operations before the entrapment scheme even gets to its target. Left hand, meet right hand.

OTOH, if they truly are waging a war on privacy, secrecy and encryption in order to eliminate private uses, then the political bullies who want to bluster their way to reelection have truly defeated the effectiveness of the intelligence community's efforts to support democracy worldwide.

It was acknowledged that the private use of TOR was the price that was necessary for naval intelligence to be able to talk to its man on the ground in Tehran without getting him killed. The only encryption deserving the term "unbreakable" is that without a backdoor to peek into private content.

If they are willing to dismantle their ability to eavesdrop from the shadows because they hate private uses of shadows, then Julian Assange has won. Assange made it clear early on that the information gleaned from leaks was only a secondary benefit. That the REAL purpose of facilitating leaking was to make it impossible for governments to keep the secrets necessary to coordinate modernized oppression. There are only two responses possible; an open society using modern global communications systems, or a retreat away from coordinating any actions and collating information.

Now its still most likely that this is pure empty political bluster like the claims several years ago about removing well known image series from the open net. And it seems as if the genie is truly out of the bottle when it comes to private use of govt-level encryption. Further, I don't even have to be a conspiracy theorist who believes that the intelligence community has eliminated heads of state who threatened it in order to believe that it would not just roll over and play dead while puffed up city councilmen made campaign promises about eliminating the very things it spent decades to set up.

As for this particular promise. I'll believe it when I cease seeing news articles about arrests based on some poor schmuck stumbling across decades old imagery from the Ukrainian series out there in plain view on common social media and image-sharing sites. After all, that was the last promise that they made, to eliminate the well documented from the most-visited.

"Darkest corners" my *ss. They should first prove that they can do something about the massive billboard erected in front of town hall before they presume to follow-up on policing the shadows.

Of course THAT also sounds just like them when it comes to KP and transparency. It is illegal to evaluate if there is anything there at all when it comes to the content. But they still claim to keep finding folks possessing that stuff they will not allow anyone to see. So maybe its only natural that, in an effort to eliminate ALL transparency, that they take their fight to a corner of the internet that cannot be documented.

"I just raided a house for drugs I can't show you on a street you can't find with a map. Please fund me for more of this stuff I can't prove exists."

Dante

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