Child Porn OK With Browser Cache Off
December 2nd, 2006 by admin
OK, I’ll admit that is not true but this is just another great example of how the laws badly need re-shaping for the world we live in today. In Pennsylvania, a man’s conviction for possession of child pornography was thrown out by Pennsylvania Superior Court because the man didn’t know his browser cache saves the images onto his hard drive. The court says he unknowingly possessing child pornography.
So, in a way isn’t that saying it’s OK to view child porn as long as you turn off your browser cache? Then, you wouldn’t knowingly possess any of the smut. Hmm… as bad as that sounds, in a way an innocent could also be harmed if we looked at this the other way around. What if, Joe invited ‘Jack’ (characters fictional) to my house for a few days. In that time, he used Joe’s computer to child porn but Joe had no knowledge about it. Police come storming in for whatever reason and finds the images in his computer
cache. Does that mean Joe is guilty? Of course not.
We don’t know if this man was actually caught in that scenario but that can happen to anyone. I don’t know, as ridiculous as the law sounds it also makes some sense. I guess it all boils down to smart police work which is frustrating. What would you suggest?