disgusting, yet inevitable
I'm involved with my company's email system. Our email is inspected for viruses and spam by an external service which does a very good job. (85% of our inbound email is crap -- spam, forged senders, bogus recipients, viruses, etc.) The service also inspects for pornography, but this feature is not accurate. It frequently triggers on baby pictures and sunsets, and sometimes stranger things like furniture, and even baseballs. So we don't use it for blocking email, but we do let it copy suspicious messages.
When I reviewed today's catch, there were several varied pieces of spam with the same attachment, a JPG of child rape. (No child that young could consent.) I've always felt that people should be allowed to do whatever they want, as long as it doesn't harm anyone else. Most of our porn is women more-or-less in bathing suits or lingerie; sometimes it's men. But nothing like this has shown up before. I knew it existed, but I'd never seen it myself. This act mauls a defenseless little girl, too young to even understand what is happening. I have trouble coming up with any punishment too severe for the unidentifyable man in this photo. Tar and feather, Bobbittize, eviscerate, draw and quarter -- somehow barbarism seems appropriate.)
It is beyond my comprehension why anyone would want to molest a child sexually. I find it disgusting that anyone else would want to watch, or ogle the photos afterwards. And given that people can be arrested for simply having pictures like this, I'm angry that anyone would email these files to my company, placing them onto my servers unbidden. (It was clearly unsolicited spam. Only one addressee was a current employee, one left us years ago, and the others were completely bogus.) I'm looking for an address (FBI or such) to forward them to, if there's any serious hope of investigation for prosecution.
When I reviewed today's catch, there were several varied pieces of spam with the same attachment, a JPG of child rape. (No child that young could consent.) I've always felt that people should be allowed to do whatever they want, as long as it doesn't harm anyone else. Most of our porn is women more-or-less in bathing suits or lingerie; sometimes it's men. But nothing like this has shown up before. I knew it existed, but I'd never seen it myself. This act mauls a defenseless little girl, too young to even understand what is happening. I have trouble coming up with any punishment too severe for the unidentifyable man in this photo. Tar and feather, Bobbittize, eviscerate, draw and quarter -- somehow barbarism seems appropriate.)
It is beyond my comprehension why anyone would want to molest a child sexually. I find it disgusting that anyone else would want to watch, or ogle the photos afterwards. And given that people can be arrested for simply having pictures like this, I'm angry that anyone would email these files to my company, placing them onto my servers unbidden. (It was clearly unsolicited spam. Only one addressee was a current employee, one left us years ago, and the others were completely bogus.) I'm looking for an address (FBI or such) to forward them to, if there's any serious hope of investigation for prosecution.