Post B9Zr3Xfah4D2a2UkZU by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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(DIR) Post #B9ZUCnN3OBZww8Gehs by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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imagine walking into a repair shop with a laptop filled with CSAM and asking them to "back up the pictures"https://youtu.be/YG48pm80pZA
(DIR) Post #B9ZUFgNbq1Nk7gu7vM by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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it's ok he just wanted to share them with getty images
(DIR) Post #B9ZUNo1NJN448gNUEy by whitequark@social.treehouse.systems
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@ariadne my ex worked in a repair shop, which is how i know this apparently happens often enough that the owner had cops basically on speed dial
(DIR) Post #B9ZUROVW755GASBh2m by bremner@mathstodon.xyz
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@ariadne Was it Elon Musk? In that case he just wanted to train his AI.
(DIR) Post #B9ZUbdNffX77C0OtTU by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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@whitequark i cannot accept the possibility that someone can be this stupid though
(DIR) Post #B9ZUgwAbEr8yujobHE by whitequark@social.treehouse.systems
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@ariadne i think it's not stupidity. rather, they don't really think of it wrong? kind of how a lot of people think of their children as property and get upset if you tell them they can't do what they please with "their property"
(DIR) Post #B9ZUkTc9LkJ7VbOC7k by cadey@pony.social
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@ariadne @whitequark I have absolutely no difficulty imagining this magnitude of stupidity
(DIR) Post #B9ZUvd2cdn3xvo5aoy by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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@whitequark i suppose (and that is basically the argument the guy was trying to make by saying he was saving them to send to getty images), but still he should have had enough awareness of the cultural zeitgeist to know CSAM is bad
(DIR) Post #B9ZV30hX4YKRL1kDXE by whitequark@social.treehouse.systems
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@ariadne one thing the internet has taught me is to never underestimiate how insular of a circle can someone exist in even if they have a firehose of the entire world delivered to their face daliy
(DIR) Post #B9ZVfr5YkGL6orVPIe by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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to be clear, in a hypothetical situation where i owned a repair shop and somebody gave me a laptop full of CSAM to back upyour laptop is going directly to the police
(DIR) Post #B9ZWJpFV0KfshHDKpE by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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@whitequark i mean clearly, if you are so uninformed as to walk into a repair shop filled with CSAM with windows configured to show the pictures folder in preview mode...but still, this is incredibly stupid
(DIR) Post #B9ZWOEw9RI0JWcGki0 by gsuberland@chaos.social
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@ariadne @whitequark this is literally how Gary Glitter got caught. took his laptop full of CSAM to a PC World.when he got out of prison the first thing he did was post to Twitter asking how to access the dark web. instant parole violation and straight back to prison.
(DIR) Post #B9ZWZHwAcm2C12XwLA by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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@gsuberland @whitequark incredible. 10/10. no notes.
(DIR) Post #B9ZWzDrUOpjeuAiuI4 by gsuberland@chaos.social
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@ariadne @whitequark I can't tell whether he was just incredibly stupid or believed in his own main character syndrome so hard that he never even considered that there would be repercussions.
(DIR) Post #B9ZXtVhvEjmOT95Xua by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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@tooth yes, i remember things like #!!!18+momdogsex on DALnet for example in the 90s
(DIR) Post #B9ZZxj31mMoouV68uG by rho@social.treehouse.systems
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@ariadne @whitequark they certainly were that stupid in the 90s, we had more than one call to the cops, and in college called the fbi to come in while running the dorm/network
(DIR) Post #B9Za0qGVOxHEABt8D2 by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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@becomethewaifu @whitequark please FOIA the bodycam video of this incident, i need more excuses to eat popcorn
(DIR) Post #B9ZpbtjIywiKw3UEiW by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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@dalias such is why i do not own a computer repair shop
(DIR) Post #B9ZqAD1FlptgbfF6Ui by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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@cr1901 @dalias my point remains: it is 2026, you should fucking know CSAM is illegal by nowergo, you should not be taking your CSAM into the computer repair shop
(DIR) Post #B9ZqOLNtSwVkbYZYP2 by cr1901@mastodon.social
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@ariadne @dalias Well, yea. This is BTK asking the police "can files deleted on a floppy disk be recovered?" levels of cluelessness.
(DIR) Post #B9Zr3Xfah4D2a2UkZU by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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@dalias @cr1901 in this case, he literally had the pictures folder set to gallery view, so as soon as you opened it: *bam* CSAM
(DIR) Post #B9ZrjrTxQE2SBpEVk0 by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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@dalias @cr1901 also, he said explicitly "back up the pictures" when told a windows reinstall would be needed :P