what would you do?

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: OILFIELDTRASH

Originally posted by: edro

Originally posted by: amdhunter
I'd have blackmailed the shit out of that guy. $1000 and a copy of the files for personal use would have shut me up.

wtfbbq 😕

I was wondering the same thing? He is one sick puppy.

woof.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: DontMindMe
hmm...great fiction IMO

this

Originally posted by: Evadman
There are so many holes in that story it isn't even funny.

IRL though, if I was moving data from one machine to another, I probably wouldn't have ever caught that there was a 5 GB size discrepancy. When someone asks me to move data for them, I usually just put the old hard drive in an external enclosure and tell the user to take whatever they want off it.

Ding Ding Ding Winnar!

if moving just data, how the hell do you know the 5gb isnt taken up by programs?
hell, my Windows directory alone is 3gigs.
god knows what size my programFiles dir is

Originally posted by: Throwmeabone
Most people who look at child porn are probably not involved in making it. If the client really was a long time friend I would probably just delete the folder and tell him to get professional help or something. Also shens on the story.

This too!
long time friend = look the other way

Originally posted by: Platypus
Definitely not true.. I did a lot of work with cyber crime units / computer forensics including and talked to countless members of all local and federal gov agencies during this time and it definitely never moves that quickly nor would they have been able to prosecute the guy without using very specific techniques for examining the data. This guy would have lawyered up and gotten off scott free if it went down like that story was written. Furthermore they wouldn't have had a citizen accompany them on the 'bust'

Not to mention these cases are backlogged by months if not years and a lot of times they're never prosecuted properly because there are so many loopholes and ways to screw up since the officers in these programs aren't trained properly. Furthermore they all use commercial software for this since very few are actually trained properly on how to do a proper forensic investigation and it's hard to prove a case without using commercial software since proving it in court is half the battle and without established techniques it's easy to get a savvy lawyer to get the perp off. Having a civilian recover the data like that is definitely not likely and wouldn't be admissible in court anyway.

Not trying to be a dick.. just offering my experience.

YUp!

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Total shens.

tough to call shens on it when you know it happens every day. *shrug*

It's BS total shens. The police do not let a citizen accompany them on a search warrant. They are not going to let him bust into a house with them. Come on now.

It does say in the post that the guy worked for the PD.

Now this guy knows I do work for the police department.

And I could see the other officies allowing this guy to ride along for the bust even if he was off duty.. So I suppose it's possible. However, the story seems more than likely to be fake by my eyes.

I almost wish I had a "oops, found kiddie porn" story to go along with all the other posters, but I don't. 🙁

 

[MikeMike]

man, i remember when i was like 14/15 always trying to find 14/15 yr olds pics... was always such a bitch

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
i was waiting for "i whistled for a cab and what it came near, the license plate said 'fresh' and there were dice in the mirror...."

Haha I was afraid I was the only one. As others pointed out the story sounds ridiculous.

I have trouble believing that somebody would be stupid enough to have child pornography as their desktop or screensaver, though. To the guys who have encountered this, was it jailbait, or actual child pornography?

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Total shens.

tough to call shens on it when you know it happens every day. *shrug*

It's BS total shens. The police do not let a citizen accompany them on a search warrant. They are not going to let him bust into a house with them. Come on now.

It does say in the post that the guy worked for the PD.

Now this guy knows I do work for the police department.

And I could see the other officies allowing this guy to ride along for the bust even if he was off duty.. So I suppose it's possible. However, the story seems more than likely to be fake by my eyes.

"do work for" isn't the same as "i work for".

 

[0roo0roo]

i guess the question is how do they know u didn't plant it?

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: DontMindMe
hmm...great fiction IMO

Posting from jail? When's the bond hearing?

 

[DayLaPaul]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
In that situation I'd probably try to get him busted but since he's a good friend (possibly) I'd maybe have trouble doing that. Maybe I'd confront him about it, I don't know. It's a tough one. Maybe secretly tell on him but make it clear to police that they should not get you involved. Maybe something totally anonymous like a letter dropped off in a PD suggestion box or something, 6 months later. (by that time he'll have accumulated more porn).

I don't understand how people don't secure their porn better though. If I was into that stuff I'd put it all on some obscure server in the attic with super high encryption then share it out on another server somewhere else in the house, then share it out again on another server, so if the main servers are browsed or physically accessed and the share is not mounted, it's nowhere to be found.

Man, if he knew how to do all that, he wouldn't be hiring someone to transfer his data.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
man, i remember when i was like 14/15 always trying to find 14/15 yr olds pics... was always such a bitch

Today, theres plenty of non-nude sites with teen girls.
But when I was 14-15 I was looking for pics of naked women. And believe me, that was DAMN difficult on Gopher!

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Total shens.

tough to call shens on it when you know it happens every day. *shrug*

It's BS total shens. The police do not let a citizen accompany them on a search warrant. They are not going to let him bust into a house with them. Come on now.

yeah this part makes it shens unfortunately

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: amdhunter
I'd have blackmailed the shit out of that guy. $1000 and a copy of the files for personal use would have shut me up.

:| There's crossing the line and there's crossing the line.