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• On the post: The FBI Is Apparently Paying Geek Squad Members To Dig Around In Computers For Evidence Of Criminal Activity

  

  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 07:46pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Disturbing

  Breaking into a house is illegal. It's called "burglary".
  Attempting but failing, to break into a house is illegal. It's called "attempted burglary".
  
  Same thing with child porn.
  Viewing child porn is illegal, as your computer has to download it from the web server to display it on your screen (even if you don't save it to the harddrive). And of course this downloading fits the crime "receiving child pornography".
  If you try to get to a child porn website, but instead end up on an FBI sting-operation fake child porn site, you still attempted to do the above mentioned crime. Therefore the crime you will be charged with in this case is "attempted receiving child pornography".

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 07:40pm

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  There is a "wanted" poster in place. That's what you seem to be missing. The "wanted" poster is in this case, not for a specific person, but rather for any computer that has child porn on it. This is no different than a bounty hunter. This is just the modern day version of a bounty hunter, because it involves computers, technology that never used to exist in the old days.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 06:29pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Works for me...

  The fact that he had a child porn pic in that case would be proof of browsing such a site. That by the way is illegal.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 06:27pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  The only CP pic, but their could have been other pics. He could have just checked a few files after doing a recovery, and just happened to run across this pic.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 06:24pm

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  Actually it is. The definition of hacking (under the law) is to gain accesses to a computer system without permission of, or against the will of, that computer system's owner.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 05:33pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Works for me...

  A virus won't cache or delete anything. If a virus plants CP on your computer, it's going to be in plain view, though in some folder that you aren't likely to look in (like windowssystem32 folder), so you won't be able to find it and remove it, unless you knew to look there for it.
  
  The fact that it's deleted suggests that it was something well known about by the computer owner, and that they deleted it to hide the evidence.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 05:29pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Those guys aren't FBI employees. They are ordinary citizens who are seeking a reward for catching badguys. They are bounty hunters. It's perfectly legal.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 05:26pm

  Re: Three Words...

  Why are you trying to give advice to pedophiles for how to better hide their child porn? They may already know the technique you described, but why try to aid those who don't know by telling them? Are you a pedophile, or a pedo sympathizer?

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 05:03pm

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  The guy with the little lulu dvd, did he get convicted or acquitted?

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 04:18pm

  Re: Re: Did tech put it there?

  What part of the narrative is false?

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 04:16pm

  Re: Re: Re: Disturbing

  The kiddie porn sites they run, don't have actual CP images on them. They are fake sites that the FBI uses just to log the IP addresses of pedophiles.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 04:15pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Works for me...

  A person who is a genuine pedophile, is going to delete their pictures. Finding a deleted picture is not proof of innocence, but rather proof that they committed a crime, KNEW that it was a crime, and tried to COVER UP the crime. If it's in slack space that makes them even MORE guilty. If a virus downloaded a CP image to your computer, you wouldn't know about it, and it would remain in a normal (not deleted) state on your harddrive. The fact that it's even deleted means the person knew the picture existed on their harddrive, and they deleted it, which is highly indicative of them having intentionally put it on their harddrive in the first place.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 04:10pm

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  Maybe so, but in your comment I was replying to, it stipulated that the person you were talking about had images they believed to be illegal, even though they weren't illegal images. The conduct of the person you are describing is clearly criminal conduct, because they intentionally came into possession of something that they believed was illegal, and just by chance the material wasn't illegal. That's an "attempt" crime, like "attempted murder". The person clearly was trying to violate the law, and would violated the law if they had the chance, but just by accident they failed to commit the crime. Thus they actually ARE guilty under the "criminal attempt" laws.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 02:00pm

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  If (as you said) the people in question had no idea that it wasn't porn, then that means they thought it was porn. And if the images they thought were porn were of children then that means they knowingly and intentionally were in possession of images that they believed were CHILD porn. In other words, they intentionally were performing actions that they believed were illegal, and only by chance did those actions happen to not be illegal. These people you are defending clearly had the INTENT to commit a crime, and attempted to commit a crime, believing fully that their actions were illegal.
  
  Even if the pictures that these people had were technically not CP, it does not make these people's ACTIONS any less criminal.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 01:51pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Actually this is legal.

  Big difference between FBI agents (hired employees) and some guy who sees a wanted poster, so they personally set out to find the bad guy, and notify the FBI when they find him. Claiming your reward money, is different than being a hired employee. This is just the digital version of a bounty hunter. It's 100% legal.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 01:49pm

  Re: "The Russians did it" stuff

  A lot of people here today defending child pornographers. DISGUSTING!

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 01:48pm

  Re: 4th Amendment Violation?

  It's probably enough for the police to get a valid search warrant, and then they can do a properly documented search, which WOULD be admissible in court.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 01:40pm

  Re: Re: Actually this is legal.

  What the Geek Squad guys did, was certainly legal. Seeking out info on a crime so as to be able to claim reward money offered by law enforcement. And there is no 4th amendment clause preventing non-law-enforcement people from digging through somebody's computer files, even if ultimately they do turn over what they find to law-enforcement, and as long as they aren't actually hired on as law-enforcement officers (which would terminate their status of being non-law-enforcement). Digging through somebody's computer, in an attempt to claim REWARD MONEY does NOT terminate your status of being non-law-enforcement, as claiming reward money offered by law-enforcement is NOT the same as being a hired employee of law-enforcement.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 01:27pm

  Re: So that's why.....

  Based on this article, it sounds more like the Geek Squad rummages around your folders, not like they do a deep scan of your hard drive.

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  Animedude5555 ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2017 @ 01:24pm

  Re: Disturbing

  FBI doesn't run CP websites. That would be illegal, as it would require possessing actual CP to put on those sites. Instead they are fake sites, who's contents are text or pictures that merely IMPLY that if you click the next link there will be real CP. Of course there's no CP when you click the next link. Instead it logs your IP address, and you get a knock on your door from the authorities. I've read about that tactic before. So no, the FBI is NOT running any actual child porn website.

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