What if child porn is encountered during research?

[irongeek at irongeek.com (Adrian Crenshaw)]

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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