Defense Department Uses New Tools To Fight Child Porn

KingFishKingFish
edited January 2005 in Science & Tech
Faced with competing demands for efforts to combat terrorism, the U.S. Department of Defense has spent $500,000 and put its top cybercrime researchers on a program to make the fight against child pornography more efficient, according to officials at the agency.
The DOD's Defense Cyber Crime Center launched the Known Image Database System, or KIDS, last July to hasten the identification of pornographic images depicting children. Another benefit of the program is to relieve the workload on swamped computer crime investigators.

Use of the system is pioneering investigative strategies and tools for cases involving huge quantities of seized data, and may yield techniques that help the DOD prosecute other kinds of cases as well, including cyberterrorism and espionage, according to U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Ken Zatyko, director of the DOD's Computer Forensic Laboratory.

The emphasis on fighting child pornography is the result of a flood of such cases that has swamped DOD forensics examiners, as well as their counterparts in federal, state, and local law enforcement, said Bill Harback, a senior forensic examiner at the DOD Computer Forensic Lab in Linthicum, Maryland, who spoke in January at a DOD Cyber Crime Conference in Florida.
Funny (well not really funny) this news item comes across as I'm waiting for a thread to complete in a computer forensic program I'm running while investigating a child porn case myself. -KF

Source: PC World

Comments

  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Why is DOD doing what DOJ should be?
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