FC: Nightline on morphed child porn; Frontline on hacker-terror

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

ABC News' Nightline on Monday was devoted to the morphed child porn law and 
challenges to it. David Horowitz was kind enough to find a link to the 
transcript:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/nightline/transcripts/nl010212_trans.html

The law, of course, is more complex than my description above suggests and 
covers the creation, distribution and even the possession of far more than 
just Photoshop-twiddled images. Background:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=morphed

Speaking of news programs devoted to these issues, PBS's Frontline last 
night covered hackers (both malicious and otherwise). During the portion of 
the show devoted to terrorism, complete with footage of recent mideast bomb 
attack on a U.S. Navy ship, DoD special agent Jim Christy warned that:

"anonymity is built into the process"
"you can do it remotely and... have the same effect"

-Declan




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