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Monday 20 October 2003

Porn, your inbox and the law [slim]

There was an article in my local paper this week about a guy who'd been found with some very illegal porn in his internet explorer history folder. He said they were from unwanted emails he'd received that were deleted right away. Now this can go both ways, the IE cache could on the one hand be a defence for a genuine perv scumbag, or it could be a pot of evidence against an innocent man. I know I get some pretty grubby emails that I definately didn't ask for, and I delete them. But I know IE does cache pages automatically, and outlook uses IE to view html emails, and if I don't clear out that cache, those dodgy images are still around. What have I done wrong?
This guy got booked for it, and will probably go on the sex offenders register.
My wife recieves more porn spam than I do, not sure why, some scumbag's got her email from somewhere and decided it'd be a good idea to chuck this stuff her way. Does she want em? No! So I set up spamassasin, all the porn gets filtered into a folder called 'spam', unread. You think our courts are going to know what that means if she gets accused of anything? I don't.
What happens if someone who doesn't like you subs you up to a child porn list and phones the police? Vile I know, but what could you do about it? Is the law up to date enough to take into account your complete lack of control here?
Take a look at your own inbox and have a think about it.

2 comments:

  1. Looking at my in-box, I would think the law would concluded that I have a small willy and need special pills to get it up and that apparently I have lots of friends that would like me to visit their web site where they have real hot pictures of themselves.

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  2. Well, two out of three isn't bad. Shame about the hot pictures, though.
    Thankfully The Bat doesn't download images off the net into email bodies, so you basically miss out on the vast majority of this sort of nonsense. It's certainly worrying how much illegal material we probably end up with on our PCs without even thinking about it, though - I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot more cases involving IE cache files going through in the near future.

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