Police Could Charge a Data Center in the Largest Child Porn Bust Ever

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It could be the largest child porn investigation ever conducted.

 

Canadian police say they

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Send the paedophiles to Guantanamo.

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1 word for this.

Good.
 

[primexx]

 

police had to purchase storage hardware similar to what was used by Canadian military forces in Afghanistan

 

That just means that the police had to purchase hardware, at all. Because they evidently didn't have them before. What is military grade hardware? Ruggidized versions of the exact same ###### that a tech company uses? This isn't the days of export restrictions. It has no relevance at all to the actual capabilities of the hardware.

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That just means that the police had to purchase hardware, at all. Because they evidently didn't have them before. What is military grade hardware? Ruggidized versions of the exact same ###### that a tech company uses? This isn't the days of export restrictions. It has no relevance at all to the actual capabilities of the hardware.

Actually there's a huge difference, ANY police investigation needs to be done on duplicate media NOT the original hard drives as they can be contaminated, and the process MUST be done by creating a clone of the original hard drive with the original hard drive having a physical hardware write blocker attached to it and using an approved hard drive copying device (for different interfaces it'll cost more, as server hardware is likely SAS you can bet it's the most expensive model). Then the hard drives that police or external bodies check through must also have physical write blockers attached to them when they're transversed through.

For legal court cases, you need to use approved qualified equipment, you cannot just pick up no-name equipment off the shelf and use it because if you do, the first thing you'll be asked to do is show that the device you used didn't contaminate the evidence, if it's not approved, you have got nothing and you'll lose the case right away.

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1 word for this.

Good.

 

 

Unless you're using a legitimate service hosted in that data centre.

[primexx]

Actually there's a huge difference, ANY police investigation needs to be done on duplicate media NOT the original hard drives as they can be contaminated, and the process MUST be done by creating a clone of the original hard drive with the original hard drive having a physical hardware write blocker attached to it and using an approved hard drive copying device (for different interfaces it'll cost more, as server hardware is likely SAS you can bet it's the most expensive model). Then the hard drives that police or external bodies check through must also have physical write blockers attached to them when they're transversed through.

For legal court cases, you need to use approved qualified equipment, you cannot just pick up no-name equipment off the shelf and use it because if you do, the first thing you'll be asked to do is show that the device you used didn't contaminate the evidence, if it's not approved, you have got nothing and you'll lose the case right away.

 

besides the fact that milspec isn't equivalent to forensically proven equipment, how does any of that affect the performance/capabilities of the hardware?

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besides the fact that milspec isn't equivalent to forensically proven equipment, how does any of that affect the performance/capabilities of the hardware?

Proof. What's the difference between a genuine mobile phone charger from a well known company and a cheap chinese knockoff - the genuine charger will have been thoroughly tested and hold legitimate safety approvals, the cheap chinese product won't have been tested and will have fake authenticity seals, thus it can't be guaranteed to even work or do what it's meant to do, there's a much higher risk of it going on fire for instance. It's the same concept with forensic data analysis.

[primexx]

Proof. What's the difference between a genuine mobile phone charger from a well known company and a cheap chinese knockoff - the genuine charger will have been thoroughly tested and hold legitimate safety approvals, the cheap chinese product won't have been tested and will have fake authenticity seals, thus it can't be guaranteed to even work or do what it's meant to do, there's a much higher risk of it going on fire for instance. It's the same concept with forensic data analysis.

 

That still doesn't address how it's any different in performance to off the shelf equipment.

 

The line in the article is trying to imply that they had to get specially powerful hardware just to be able to sort through all the stuff, using the word "military" to make it sound more demanding than it is. When in fact there's no difference in how powerful a "milspec" computer and a regular computer is. If anything milspec is probably slower and less capable because it needs to be ruggidized (and go through additional testing, etc. that takes longer). Whether or not it's forensically sound is a different issue altogether and entirely irrelevant to the sensationalist nature of that description. The article doesn't even mention forensics at all.

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Unless you're using a legitimate service hosted in that data centre.

Yep.

In such cases police should go after the distributor. Visitors should get couceling and jail time.

 

But if you got after the hosting service, good lord that is a nail in the coffin for services like Mega.