Microsoft launches tool to rid Internet of child porn

[JamesMike]

I'm glad Microsoft decided to do this for free. It should help.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/15/technology/microsoft-photodna/index.html

 

[maflynn]

Nice move, though sadly it won't help those people will find ways around such attempts

 

[rhett7660]

Is it sad that a tool had to be designed TO DO this?!?!

Good job MS!

 

[Khalanad75]

Good on MS. Too bad those sick bastards will find a way around it.

 

[lowendlinux]

Nice!

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

Is it sad that a tool had to be designed TO DO this?!?!

Good job MS!

As Edmund Burke is paraphrased as saying, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

This is good men and women doing a great thing. For those that say that the bad people will find another way, I say, "good." They need to be shamed into a deeper and deeper hole, and hopefully, those that are caught will provide those that are inching towards this depravity an exit to leave this activity.

 

[keysofanxiety]

720,000 child porn images posted daily ... that's a pretty harrowing number.

 

[TomGolden]

While I whole heartedly applaud any and all efforts to do this, it is not likely to succeed 100%. As we all know, once anything is on the internet, it is forever. Hopefully this effort can and will slow down new instances of this filth, and maybe help to eliminate those existing instances that are wide open and not well guarded by the people who host such garbage.