How do police gain evidence for child porn?

inferno

inferno

inferno

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Does an officer have to scan through all the images and videos on some persons PC? That could take days and seriously mess with the officers mind?

I reckon I could take investigation a crime scene, but look at thousands of horrible images and videos?:(
 
mate of mine did work experience with police computer crime unit, I could not do that job for any amount of pay, |I suppose you need the thickest of thick skins. And on top of that if I worked for them and I saw something I could not trust myself not to go round the perps house and burn it with them in.
 
They have a facial recognition system (B.R.E.A.D) which checks the interpol face recognition database (M.U.S.T.A.R.D) for underage people in photos, then they check if the photos in the results are pornographic.
 
I did some work with the Akron police in this area. I was surprised to find how restricted they are. There is a national database of child porn photos where they've previously proven in court that the child or children pictured are illegally underaged. They MD5 all of these and make the sums searchable. Computer forensic techs search the computer and MD5 sum any suspicious photos or videos. If it matches the database they'll get an arrest.

Essentially they run md5 /* > md5.txt

It's completely different busting the actual pornographer, not a trafficker. In that case they need to do the footwork and find the child(ren) and verify their ages.
 
Nymins said:
Have the FBI not set up websites to catch people? Like lure them in thinking it is a child pornography site and then grab them?
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Yes. The FBI use honey-pots quite regularly apparently. I wouldn't be surprised if they started doing it to catch file-sharers next lol And no, I don't believe file-sharing in any way compares to those *****.
 
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