The $300 system in the fight against illegal images

guest · Jun 19, 2018

The $300 system in the fight against illegal images
A security researcher has built a system for detecting illegal images that costs less than $300 (£227) and uses less power than a lightbulb.
June 19, 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44525358

Christian Haschek, who lives in Austria, came up with the solution after he discovered an image showing child sex abuse had been uploaded on his image hosting platform Pictshare.

He called the police, who told him to print it out and bring it to them. However it is illegal to possess images of child abuse, digitally or in print.

Instead he put together a homegrown solution for identifying and removing explicit images.
He set it to find images which the system could say with 30% or more certainty was likely to contain pornography - he said he set the possibility low so as to be sure not to miss anything.

"There are thousands of images on PictShare - I can't look them through even in a year so I had to think of something else."
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