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Old 02-08-2007, 08:30 PM  
Daruma
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John McCain Wants ISP Monitoring

http://news.com.com/Senator+to+propo...3-6156976.html

"The Securing Adolescents from Exploitation-Online Act (PDF) states ISPs that obtain "actual knowledge" of illegal images must make an exhaustive report including the date, time, offending content, any personal information about the user, and his Internet Protocol address. That report is sent to local or federal police by way of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The center received $32.6 million in tax dollars in 2005, according to its financial disclosure documents.

"Afterward, the center is authorized to compile that information into a form that can be sent back to ISPs and used to assemble a database of "unique identification numbers generated from the data contained in the image file." That could be a unique ID created by a hash function, which yields something akin to a digital fingerprint of a file."




while I think its a good idea for the cp shit - it could also be used be abused or used for other things - personally I think its going a bit too far..
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