Originally Posted by
Sanlmar
So while Sonatine answered a direct question in an entertaining way I wonder if he thinks shit is a lot more nefarious on the government side?
Let me put it real bluntly;
The government built this shit. It's theirs to monitor as they see fit. And they see very, very fit to archive pretty much everything you can imagine. Because honestly; why not? Why on earth not? We have no right to privacy on the internet; its not ours.
That said, CP is a whole different ballgame. For one thing, the good guys arent just the FBI etc, its every single government that answers to INTERPOL. So right off the bat, if youre fucking with CP, you're on borrowed time.
For another thing, back in the days I wanted to build an OCR layer to read poker cards off the screen. I asked a friend whose deep into the public sector infosec game for some help and he pointed me to this totally weird little library that was designed to assess color palettes / profiles from image files in arbitrary ways.
You know who was developing it?
Google.
You know why?
Because they use it to actively monitor every single image that passes through gmail.com to see if it matches known samples of CP.
And that was well over a decade ago.
Surveillance is seriously the natural state of things, privacy is a goofy myth. If you want to opt out, get a cabin in the woods and get to work on that manifesto.