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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:51 am Post subject: In child porn case, a digital dilemma |
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This is an amazing story, maybe Bush could just send him to Gitmo for some waterboarding to give up the password.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22672241/
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The federal government is asking a U.S. District Court in Vermont to order a man to type a password that would unlock files on his computer, despite his claim that doing so would constitute self-incrimination.
The case, believed to be the first of its kind to reach this level, raises a uniquely digital-age question about how to balance privacy and civil liberties against the government's responsibility to protect the public.
The case, which involves suspected possession of child pornography, comes as more Americans turn to encryption to protect the privacy and security of files on their laptops and thumb drives. FBI and Justice Department officials, meanwhile, have said that encryption is allowing terrorists and criminals to communicate their plots covertly. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:05 am Post subject: Privacy |
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Welcome to the Orwellian society!
(The scenario given, is a bit of a dilemma, though. I abhor child pornography, like most people). Where do the government / police draw the line? |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:35 am Post subject: Re: In child porn case, a digital dilemma |
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What lazy G-men! How much are government cryptographers paid, and then all they can do is force people to give up their passwords? They should get off their lazy butts and get to work, like they did in WW2 when enemy codes were broken.
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| The case, believed to be the first of its kind to reach this level, raises a uniquely digital-age question about how to balance privacy and civil liberties against the government's responsibility to protect the public. |
I've never really understood how preventing people from looking at pictures protects the public. In fact, in "The Perverse Law of Child Pornography," published in the Columbia Law Review, Prof. Amy Adler argues that child pornography law is actually counterproductive.
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| In this Article, Professor Adler argues that child pornography law, intended to protect children from sexual exploitation, threatens to reinforce the very problem it attacks. The Article begins with a historical claim: Our culture has become preoccupied with child sexual abuse and child pornography in a way that it did not used to be. The Article traces the rapid development of child pornography law, showing that a cultural transformation in our notion of childhood sexual vulnerability has coincided with the birth and dramatic expansion of the law. Professor Adler then introduces various causal accounts of this chronological correlation between the regulation of child pornography and the growing crisis of child sexual abuse. First, she explores the possibility that the burgeoning law of child pornography may invite its own violation through a dialectic of taboo and transgression. She then presents another reading of the relationship between child pornography law and culture: The law may unwittingly perpetuate and escalate the sexual representation of children that it seeks to constrain. In this view, the legal tool that we designed to liberate children from sexual abuse threatens us all, by constructing a world in which we are enthralled�anguished, enticed, bombarded�by the spectacle of the sexual child. |
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