Adrian Boliston wrote:
> "Robbie" wrote in message
> news:63q2jkF28tgphU1@mid.individual.net...
>
>> judith wrote:
>>> Sue has raised the question in another thread :
>>> someone goes looking for warez software and downloads files named
>>> "XP-Hack.exe" but, unnknowingly are actually
>>> self-extracting files of kp images - guilty of creating kp images, or
>>> not?
>>>
>>> I have also wondered what does one do in these circumstances - a
>>> friend of mine said that he had received some near to the mark images
>>> in a spam e-mail for . - what should he do?
>>>
>>> I must admit I did not know: I told him to document exactly what had
>>> happened. Save all of the e-mail including headers - excluding the
>>> images. Outline describe what the images were in a document to be
>>> kept on his machine - and to delete the original. Also to send
>>> e-mails to a number of friends saying what had happened and "warning"
>>> them not to open the e-mail if they themselves received it; - not just
>>> as a warning but a further "documentation" of what had happened.
>>>
>>> Any views - better ideas?
>> Report the email to the internet watch foundation. Then delete the email
>> and forget about it.
>>
>> That's all you can do really.
>
> But doing this would be admitting the offence of "making" child ., as by
> viewing the email the image would be cached on your hard drive, hence the
> "making" offence.
>
>
>
The IWF get about 35,000 reports per year from the public - technically
that's 35,000 people who have possibly committed an offence but the IWF
need the public to make reports or else it could not exist.
The IWF site says this:
Criminal liability
If you have inadvertently accessed suspected child .ual abuse images
online, or been the victim of an unsolicited e mail that possibly
contained child .ual abuse content then we advise you to delete all
records of the reported material from your computer. Under current UK
law, accidental exposure to such content does not make you criminally
liable, but we must advise you that this is not the case if you
deliberately seek out such content.
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Robbie |