tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post371035329368476922..comments2024-03-27T08:40:31.785-06:00Comments on Clayton Cramer.: Clayton Cramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-8945279892229059842018-04-08T15:33:07.427-06:002018-04-08T15:33:07.427-06:00Long ago, when "chat rooms" were popular...Long ago, when "chat rooms" were popular using modems on the telephone line, I had a friend who was arrested for possession of child porn. It turned out that he'd been sent a packet of photos from someone in one of these chat rooms, in compressed format; he opened one picture, saw that it was porn, and immediately deleted them all- or thought he had. <br /><br />He wasn't well-versed enough with computers to know that merely putting something in the "trashcan" didn't delete it; so the prosecutor told the court that my friend was trying to hide these illegal photos by putting them there. Fortunately for my friend, he was found innocent of the charges (there was also an electronic trail on the computer showing where they had come from originally, and he'd told the truth throughout.)<br /><br />In court it was almost amusing (the seriousness of the charges certainly weren't funny) watching the judge holding 11"x14" photos, enlarged from the thumbnail pictures, and trying to make out what they showed. The defense attorney told me that all the pictures were very small thumbnails, so it was extremely hard to even tell that it was child porn (if it actually was, which I doubted at the time- but I was never allowed to see the images, so I won't ever know.)Eskymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15947922645001422523noreply@blogger.com