Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?!

[Chris in Makati]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 09:16:32 +0000 (UTC), Juha Nieminen
<nospam at thanks.invalid> wrote:

>In comp.lang.c++ Chris in Makati <mail at nospam.com> 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.
>
>Most judiciary systems are not robots following a narrow set of instructions.
>If they determine that it wasn't your fault, they will not punish the
>innocent.
>
>Besides, how would they even know what's in your computer?

If you do a Google search for <child porn arrested> you will find
literally thousands of cases where raids have taken place and people
have been found with this material on their computers.

In many of these cases the authorities have traced the IP addresses of
people whose computers have made connections to known sites that host
child porn. It's no use trying to claim that a bot you weren't aware
of downloaded it without your knowledge. If you could get off the hook
that easily everybody who was interested in the stuff would
deliberately install such a bot and use that as an excuse.