Man's life Over, Cops Decide He Watched Child Porn in First Class

I have zero sympathy for pornographers in general and especially for anybody involved in child porn, but the cure in this case is insane. They could put ANYBODY in prison for this ****; how hard do you really think it would be to manufacture a virus which would place a hundred images on every computer it ever got into??

@gungasnake,
Do you know of any cases where someone was convicted for having images spread by a virus?

The government provides instructions for how to handle unintended downloads--and you can contact them for assistance......

On a scale of one to ten for really bad/stupid ideas, that (telling some government agent that you think you have dirty pictures on your computer and you don't know how they got there) would be an eleven or a twelve. Ordinary colleges and high schools do not have courses in how to survive in the real world and apparently a lot of people (like you) are growing up in dire need. Best thing I could suggest at this point would be joining the US Army for two or three years, that sometimes helps where everything else fails.

With all my layers of protections that in theory should keep anyone out of my hard drives up to the new many acrea two/three billions dollars NSA super computers center in Utah if I found CP on any of my hard drives I would drill many many holes into the drive and throw it far away as in a body of deep water.

In your case, no one would believe the child pornography wound up on your heavily encrypted computer "by accident".

Ithaca man gets prison term for child porn possession
By LINDA GITTLEMAN
06/12/ 2012

The Ithaca man who pleaded guilty to distributing and promoting child sexual abusive material and to using a computer received two prison terms to be served consecutively.

Justin Mosher, 38, was sentenced to a total of 46 months to 10 years for possessing child pornography on his computer.

His crime was discovered by a member of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, said Gratiot County Prosecutor Keith Kushion. Using the name Gay Lover 22, Mosher had been sharing files of more than 3,000 images with others.
Some of those images included infants and toddlers without adults, Kushion said.

If a ciminal is sentenced to more than one prison term, the terms are usually served at the same time, Kushion said. But because a computer was used, the law allows the judge to sentence the offender to consecutive terms.
“Some might say he was only looking at photos, he wasn’t actually abusing children,” Kushion said he argued. “But because of that, he generates a market, which generates child exploitation.”

On May 14, Mosher pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing or promoting child sexual abusive material and three more counts of using a computer to commit a crime.
Gratiot County Circuit Court Judge Michelle Rick sentenced Mosher Monday to 23 months to seven years on the charge of distributing abusive material. She then sentenced him to 23 months to 10 years for the use of computer charge.
She ordered that the prison terms are to be served consecutively, which means that Mosher will not be eligible for parole until he’s served nearly four years, Kushion said.
http://www.themorningsun.com/article/20120612/NEWS01/120619923/ithaca-man-gets-prison-term-for-child-porn-possession

On a scale of one to ten for really bad/stupid ideas, that (telling some government agent that you think you have dirty pictures on your computer and you don't know how they got there) would be an eleven or a twelve. Ordinary colleges and high schools do not have courses in how to survive in the real world and apparently a lot of people (like you) are growing up in dire need. Best thing I could suggest at this point would be joining the US Army for two or three years, that sometimes helps where everything else fails.

With all my layers of protections that in theory should keep anyone out of my hard drives up to the new many acrea
two/three billions dollars NSA super computers center in Utah

if I found CP on any of my hard drives I would drill many many holes into the drive and throw it far away as in a body of deep water.

Drives are far too cheap to keep one around that once contained such materials that the society happen to be so crazy about.

It is not an equivalent situation.
On a public street you have no expectation of privacy.

I dunno, but I imagine that if someone felt a need to preserve secrecy
(e.g., a lawyer protecting his client's secrets) that fire cud be used to destroy a hard drive; yes ?

David, if you aren't going to discuss the topic of child pornography with some rationality, I'm not going to respond to you.

Courts have already weighed in on violations of privacy issues and continued sexual exploitation of the children shown in those images when the images are re-viewed by those who download them. Go read the case law--which has already been discussed in this thread.

I'll say it again, with terribly few exceptions, I find the idea of anybody ever being charged with any sort of a crime for owning something or having something (other than stolen property) in their possession, totally offensive