Fucking Governmnent...

[Rokcet Scientist]

Having child porn is very different from being a child molester.

Not to me. If you have child porn it just means you're a wannabe child molester.

Then you're the biased thought police.

No, YOU could have put it there! Or I could! Or anyone of 7 billion people could have.

You have on average a million files or more on your PC. Most of which you have never even seen and didn't consciously put there. Are you really sure none of those contains child porn, or bomb recipes? Are you really, really sure...?

Because when 'they' find it you hang... whatever your 'defense'.

Sorry, but the only person who has access to my computer is me.

Dream on: you're on the internet NOW, arent you?
Then every hacker in the whole wide world has access to your computer, my friend. Without you having a clue. And since having paedo files (pun intended) on their PC is illegal they store them on someone else's computer. Those PC owners, like you, haven't a clue anyway.

I don't know what PC you use, but I do not have millions of files on my PC

Yes, you do. You just don't know it, and you can't see them. But that doesn't mean they are not there.

and I know where exactly each one is. Luckily my PC has folders that are labelled to make it easier...My Documents contains document, My Videos contains vides, etc.

You really don't have a clue what you're talking about.

[Doubting Thomas]

Well just take a look at all the files in your Windows system and system32 folders, not to mention thousands of other places. Then go look in your temporary internet files. Yes, you get millions of files on your computer without even realizing it. This isn't 1982.

[Autumnlicious]

Between the usually-completely-technically-wrong-but-overall-correct Rokcet Scientist and the Damns-Anyone-Without-Considering-Context Atheist Fascist, erm, Anarchist, I cannot tell how this will end.

But I weep for technical literacy... And for our (shared) "Innocent until proven guilty" legal system.

[NoMoreFaith]

Not to me. If you have child porn it just means you're a wannabe child molester.

Large files tend to be compressed in order to make downloading large files more efficient, this is especially true of downloading via Usenet, and occasionally torrents instead of the more napster/kazaa based p2p which is no longer very popular.

No, you cannot see what is in this compressed file, you generally need at least, a partial sample of the archive.

But according to you, if it contains things you weren't expecting or wasn't in the description, you're still a wannabe child molester?

You're still a criminal, just a marginal one. What is naive is going to the police about it.

Just for the record thou, there's no shame in admitting ignorance.

[Ace Otana]

Not to me. If you have child porn it just means you're a wannabe child molester.

And if you had unwanted child porn downloaded onto your computer. Would that also make you a wannabe child molester too?

[Autumnlicious]

And if you had unwanted child porn downloaded onto your computer. Would that also make you a wannabe child molester too?

Nah, that makes him a wannabe unwanted child molester.

[Jaysyn]

A virus isn't child porn.

You do realize that their are "viruses" that can basically turn your PC into a hub for transferring things of an illegal nature, including child porn, right?

You do realize that there are techniques to make files & programs almost completely invisible to the Windows API, don't you? These rootkits take special software &/or training to discover & the average person & anti-virus kit aren't going to be able to suss them out.

But I'm sure you knew all that before you started talking in absolutes.

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and I know where exactly each one is. Luckily my PC has folders that are labelled to make it easier...My Documents contains document, My Videos contains vides, etc.

You really don't have a clue what you're talking about.

Oh wow, I didn't read that. He really has no idea what he's going on about, does he?

[Violet]

Someone has a fetish? Cool, leave them be.

Someone molests a child? My understanding of a 'crime'.

I don't believe that possessing child porn should not be a recognizable offense, no more than possessing tentacle porn, or porn that in some way involves nonhuman animals.

Next thing you know they'll be arresting me for seriously wanting to sock a motherfucker in the face, and walking away. Anyone who owns a movie which contains a form of battery in it should be arrested for committing battery, and charged as such.

[Rokcet Scientist]

Next thing you know they'll be arresting me for seriously wanting to sock a motherfucker in the face, and walking away. Anyone who owns a movie which contains a form of battery in it should be arrested for committing battery, and charged as such.

Absofuckin'lutely!
And they also should arrest everyone driving a car or bike, because they are of course potential killers. Not to mention they should arrest every lady-of-the-household in possession of potentially lethal cutlery. They have whole collections of those murder weapons, you know!

DAMN! We'll make this world safe for our children yet!

[theVOID]

I think that such things are not really common

That's why you don't hear about it very often.

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I have bad news for you, my friends: all those compromising photos and videos that once were on your digital device are still there today! When you thought you deleted them you didn't actually delete them, but you only trashed the 'headers' and icons of those files. The stuff you can see on your desktop. That's gone. But the files themselves are not. They are still there, and any software engineer can retrieve them, even years later!

So while you don't even know yourself that you have compromising material on your PC or other digital devices, you do IRL! And 'they' can nab you for it! Which is e.g. why TSA checks are so dangerous.

Still like your digital devices as much...?

I have more bad news for you. You're wrong. They will be there until such time as the sectors of the disk used to store the data are rewritten with new data, this isn't a matter of years for most users (who's storage medium is near full capacity at any given moment) but rather the sectors will be rewritten multiple times within months of the deletion of the files in question. Fragments of the data *may* be recoverable depending on the storage medium - specifically magnetic disk devices (such as the typical hard disks where the polarisation of the magnetic platters can 'bleed' out and reveal binary data in the spaces between the 'write targets') but for solid state devices once the data on the device (nothing more than patterns of transistor states) has been rewritten the data is gone.

Moral of the story: Paedophiles should use SSD drives.

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Does formatting get rid of anything you've deleted?

It's still recoverable usually. Use something like DBAN instead.

Or merely populate the drive with data, format again, repopulate, format, repopulate, format etc DBAN is much quicker, as is the typical write-to-zero approach.