What if child porn is encountered during research?

[mick at pauldotcom.com (Michael Douglas)]

You *need* to consult a lawyer.

Also it helps if you can reach out to your local law enforcement
community *before* you get in such a situation.  The local InfraGard
chapter is pretty good where I'm at so I was able to get to know the
agents who covered these cases.

Excellent question, but I don't think there's a stock answer...

- Mick

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Adrian Crenshaw<irongeek at irongeek.com> wrote:
> While doing research on anonymizing networks, what is the best policy to
> follow concerning inadvertently captured contraband (child porn, copyright
> infringing files, etc.)? In the case of child porn, the authorities should
> be notified under normal circumstances, but with anonymizing networks the
> origin of the files is hard if not impossible to determine. Would it be
> correct to just wipe the data after research on the network is done?? As I
> understand it, even having it on your hard drive because of peripherally
> relevant research would be a crime.
>
> Adrian
>
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