I am amused by the statements here that you have nothing to worry about if there is no porn on your computer....that all they will do is enter your home with a search warrant and seize your computer and then return it when they are through digging in it.
First, since when is it of no consequence that the cops enter your house and go through all of your private papers and business????
Second, who has a computer that does not have something private on it, even if it is only his bank account and stock investments?
Third, why can’t the holy and pure see that this is unreasonable search. Clicking is not probable cause,,,downloading is.
Last, I have a new Logitech mouse and when I use it with linux, which I am now, it occasionally gets very sensitive and will click when I don’t intend for it to. For instance, when looking at the weather, it will occasionally click on one of the ads as I pass over it to go to another part of the forecast. So far, I have not been able to adjust the sensitivity to the point that I can cure this.
So accidental, highjack, phish or whatever, this is one of the most stupid ideas I have ever heard of.
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....Third, why can’t the holy and pure see that this is unreasonable search. Clicking is not probable cause,,,downloading is.
First, I am also amused by those statements -- which is why I used such statements as one of two ridiculous extremes. The other extreme, of course, was the idea (apparently conveyed by the author of the article) that one errant click could result in a completely innocent victim being whisked away to the gulags for life.
Second, why can't those who see anyone not signing up for a lifetime membership in the ACLU over this as "the holy and pure" see that the probable cause (as somewhat clearly stated in the article) arises not from simply clicking but from actually downloading a file that purports to be kiddie porn.
As for the alarmism that somebody will cleverly disguise these links to look like something innocent to punk people into jail, if it is so easy for these pranksters to discover the links (without landing themselves in jail first) and incorporate them into their devious schemes, then the whole program would be completely ineffective as a sting operation aimed at kiddie porn users.