Net Security techniques to be used in stopping child pornography
There was a time when the Internet boom began when it seemed as if the quickest way to make it to a millionaire was by setting up an adult site. While many made several millions from hosting such websites, it has also seen the web usage going more down the road that once used to be less traveled - Child pornography.
Five major Internet service companies - Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, EarthLink and United Online - announced that they are joining hands with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to launch a campaign against child exploitation on the Internet. Together they intend to fund a new technology coalition with NCMEC to develop and deploy tools that will disrupt and stop the predators in their devious acts. Given the rich, vast and varied expertise each of these companies possesses they will collectively be able to address this serious issue.
The Objectives: The Coalition has four main objectives - Developing and implementing technology solutions; Improving knowledge-sharing among industry members; Improving law enforcement tools; and Researching predators' technologies to enhance industry efforts.
Tools that would be developed would in many ways be similar to those we use to fend of phishing, spams or virus attacks. Considering that technology exists today to prompt you before you view adult oriented results on most good search engines, it should not be too difficult to better this technology to crawl the web and accurately pin point pictures pertaining to child exploitation.
As regards individuals privacy issues, it goes without saying there will have to be a tradeoff to keep a tab on what the Internet user is doing yet not get unnecessarily nosey when the user goes about his activities innocently.
While there will always be crooks out there to outsmart any new technology that is introduced, it is opined with the combined muscle power of the five big names on the Internet, the net will in the days ahead be a whole lot safer for the future generations.
Five major Internet service companies - Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, EarthLink and United Online - announced that they are joining hands with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to launch a campaign against child exploitation on the Internet. Together they intend to fund a new technology coalition with NCMEC to develop and deploy tools that will disrupt and stop the predators in their devious acts. Given the rich, vast and varied expertise each of these companies possesses they will collectively be able to address this serious issue.
The Objectives: The Coalition has four main objectives - Developing and implementing technology solutions; Improving knowledge-sharing among industry members; Improving law enforcement tools; and Researching predators' technologies to enhance industry efforts.
Tools that would be developed would in many ways be similar to those we use to fend of phishing, spams or virus attacks. Considering that technology exists today to prompt you before you view adult oriented results on most good search engines, it should not be too difficult to better this technology to crawl the web and accurately pin point pictures pertaining to child exploitation.
As regards individuals privacy issues, it goes without saying there will have to be a tradeoff to keep a tab on what the Internet user is doing yet not get unnecessarily nosey when the user goes about his activities innocently.
While there will always be crooks out there to outsmart any new technology that is introduced, it is opined with the combined muscle power of the five big names on the Internet, the net will in the days ahead be a whole lot safer for the future generations.
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