In my last article, I bashed Canadian law enforcement. In this one, I will praise them. The Ontario Provincial Police have announced that they have made a massive child porn bust. But, it doesn’t involve people. It involves a data center:
What we do know is that police traced users trading child sexual exploitative material online to a file sharing service, which was hosted by an Ontario company with millions of dollars in profits. Police then proceeded to seize over 1.2 petabytes of data—about 1,200 terabytes, or just under one million gigabytes. The volume of information is so expansive that in order to store and analyze the data safely and securely, police had to purchase storage hardware similar to what was used by Canadian military forces in Afghanistan. To access the files, many of which are password protected, the cops developed password-cracking software in-house that is slowly sifting through the mountain of information.
This is a very unique method at attacking this evil problem. Don’t go after the individual consumers of child porn. Go after the data and where it’s hosted instead. Get that and the consumers will dry up due to lack of supply. It’s an interesting tactic. The only question that remains is if the owners of the data center are on the hook for this. They make money off of hosting this crap. Does it not stand to reason that they are responsible for what’s there? That’s an interesting question with no clear answer. Perhaps they should care what their clients host as a bust like this would have a serious impact on their business economically at the very least. Plus the owners might get criminally charged. If they did take an interest in what’s hosted in their data center, that would be another way to get this crap off the Internet for good.
Bravo to the Ontario Provincial Police for this bust!
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Canadian Cops Make Largest Child Porn Bust Ever…. Involving A Data Center
In my last article, I bashed Canadian law enforcement. In this one, I will praise them. The Ontario Provincial Police have announced that they have made a massive child porn bust. But, it doesn’t involve people. It involves a data center:
What we do know is that police traced users trading child sexual exploitative material online to a file sharing service, which was hosted by an Ontario company with millions of dollars in profits. Police then proceeded to seize over 1.2 petabytes of data—about 1,200 terabytes, or just under one million gigabytes. The volume of information is so expansive that in order to store and analyze the data safely and securely, police had to purchase storage hardware similar to what was used by Canadian military forces in Afghanistan. To access the files, many of which are password protected, the cops developed password-cracking software in-house that is slowly sifting through the mountain of information.
This is a very unique method at attacking this evil problem. Don’t go after the individual consumers of child porn. Go after the data and where it’s hosted instead. Get that and the consumers will dry up due to lack of supply. It’s an interesting tactic. The only question that remains is if the owners of the data center are on the hook for this. They make money off of hosting this crap. Does it not stand to reason that they are responsible for what’s there? That’s an interesting question with no clear answer. Perhaps they should care what their clients host as a bust like this would have a serious impact on their business economically at the very least. Plus the owners might get criminally charged. If they did take an interest in what’s hosted in their data center, that would be another way to get this crap off the Internet for good.
Bravo to the Ontario Provincial Police for this bust!
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