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What if child porn is encountered during research?
From: strandjs at gmail.com (strandjs at gmail.com)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:56:03 +0000
Ahh.. Crap... Came to this late. Notify law enforcement now. Do not delete anything. And yes... Talk to a lawyer. John Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Jack Daniel <jackadaniel at gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:54:35 To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List<pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com> Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] What if child porn is encountered during research? Echoing Mick's answers- talk to a lawyer, and your local Infragard is probably a good resource. Do not make assumptions as to what would or would not be of value to law enforcement, allow the investigators to make those decisions. I am not a lawyer...but I would stop and document what I had done and what I thought I had found as soon as I discovered something potentially ugly and stop my investigation- then make contact with legal and/or law enforcement before proceeding. Jack On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Michael Douglas <mick at pauldotcom.com> wrote:
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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