Thursday, October 28, 2004
Net extortionists in child porn threat | The Register
Summary: pay up or we distribute child porn in your name. Quite a ramping up of the denial of service attacks against the gambline site Blue Square, but it also raises some interesting side issues.
With people being dismissed for sending abusive or inappropriate emails, it's clear that this approach could be used to land a colleague in serious trouble. That much we already knew. But now, if it's common knowledge that stuff sent may not be from who it purports to be, there is a reasonable defence for anyone to use. It wasn't me, I didn't do it, I wasn't there - and proving otherwise may be difficult.
With digital photos able to be manipulated on almost any PCs, digital videos being composited on powerful desktops, images are not sacred. And this is more evidence that, in these days of digital everything, knowing anything is for real has been lost forever.
Summary: pay up or we distribute child porn in your name. Quite a ramping up of the denial of service attacks against the gambline site Blue Square, but it also raises some interesting side issues.
With people being dismissed for sending abusive or inappropriate emails, it's clear that this approach could be used to land a colleague in serious trouble. That much we already knew. But now, if it's common knowledge that stuff sent may not be from who it purports to be, there is a reasonable defence for anyone to use. It wasn't me, I didn't do it, I wasn't there - and proving otherwise may be difficult.
With digital photos able to be manipulated on almost any PCs, digital videos being composited on powerful desktops, images are not sacred. And this is more evidence that, in these days of digital everything, knowing anything is for real has been lost forever.
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