Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?!

[David Brown]

On 03/12/15 07:24, Chris in Makati wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 08:57:44 +0000 (UTC), Juha Nieminen
> <nospam at thanks.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> In comp.lang.c++ Steve Hayes <hayesstw at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>>> You download things FROM a computer, you upload them TO a computer.
>>
>> It's a matter of perspective. If a hacker breaks into your computer and
>> starts a download from somewhere else into your computer, isn't the hacker
>> "downloading" things to your computer?
> 
> Does it matter? As far as the law is concerned, it is possession of
> child porn that's illegal. How it got there is irrelevant.
> 

You are posting to a wide range of international newsgroups (with this
thread being way off-topic for all of them...).  It makes no sense to
talk about "the law", because this is not something covered by
/international/ law.

What counts as "child porn", what counts as "possession", how relevant
intention, knowledge, etc., is, varies enormously from country to
country.  Even if the OP is telling the truth (and if Skybuck said that
grass is green, I'd recommend going outside to check), and he gets
caught with this stuff on his machine, punishments can vary from "it's
fine as long as you don't distribute it" to "25 years for each picture,
to be served consecutively".