[FDE] I wish all pedophiles were this stupid

[Allen]

I am led to speculate what would happen to a professor of 
sociology or cultural anthropology who is working on a treatise 
about the cultural mores of the 21st Century and the disruptions 
caused by the cross cultural standards of immigrants to this 
country versus the dominate mores of the current population.

Would they be arrested for "intent" to download child pornography 
in the process of gathering evidence to support their research?

Or take the case of an art historian downloading pictures from 
pre-Renaissance time of Mary and the child Jesus, who has his 
genitals showing, be arrested for having child pornography on his 
computer.

Or, to take an example much closer to our own fields, would one 
of us who deals in security be arrested for attempting to 
download pornography when we were running tracert and other 
analytical tools to track where a malicious e-mail with an 
embedded link came from?

Even more interesting is the situation where one could visit a 
web site that used a pre-fetch mechanism to load the next page 
you would most likely visit based on historical data of past 
visitors. It would be quite easy to insert child pornography into 
almost any computer this way.

I can't speak for you, but I have on more that one occasion 
discovered potentially compromising files on my computer that I 
was not even aware I had downloaded. Should I be arrested?

Are we really sure we want to go down this road?

Allen

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