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Re: Google's email scanning

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Hils wrote:
> The company has previously said that it watches for this type of content
> by creating a database of ‘hashes’ – unique codes that correspond to
> known images of abuse and that allow the company to ‘look’ for abusive
> content without examining the image itself or keeping a permanent
> database of abusive content.

So, the child porn fiends who acquire or distribute such images should 
make some small change in the image so that the hash is different; if 
I'm understanding this policing mechanism.

There is probably some AI recognition tech afoot which could recognize 
(or at least suspect) child porn by some logic a little fuzzier than the 
precision of a hash on a specific and exact image subject to change.

-- 
Mike Easter

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Google's email scanning Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-08-05 05:44 +0100
  Re: Google's email scanning Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-08-05 14:43 -0700
    Re: Google's email scanning Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-06 01:34 +0000
      Re: Google's email scanning Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-08-07 10:20 -0700
        Re: Google's email scanning Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-08 23:12 +0000
          Re: Google's email scanning Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-08-08 22:19 -0700
  Re: Google's email scanning john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-08-19 12:57 -0800
    Re: Google's email scanning Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-08-20 08:45 +0000

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