Another Bill Going Through The House...

[Matt 26z]

Afterward, the center is authorized to compile that information into a form that can be sent back to ISPs and used to assemble a database of "unique identification numbers generated from the data contained in the image file." That could be a unique ID created by a hash function, which yields something akin to a digital fingerprint of a file.

Details on how the system would work are missing from McCain's legislation and are left to the center and ISPs. But one method would include ISPs automatically scanning e-mail and instant messaging attachments and flagging any matches.

It sounds like their plan is to create a database of known CP images, and then special software will scan internet traffic to see who is sending or receiving any of it. Intriguing, but this has to be illegal. They can't tap phone lines without reason and use software to flag people for saying certain phrases. This is basically the same thing.

Another section of the draft bill says that anyone convicted of certain child exploitation-related offenses who also used the "Internet to commit the violation" will get an extra 10 years in prison.

OH MY GOD!!! He used a COMPUTER to do it!!