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The $300 system in the fight against illegal images
The $300 system in the fight against illegal images
By Zoe Kleinman
Technology reporter, BBC News
19 June 2018
Image copyright
Christian Haschek
A security researcher has built a system for detecting illegal images that costs less than $300 (£227) and uses less power than a lightbulb.Christian Haschek, who lives in Austria, came up with the solution after he discovered an image showing child sex abuse had been uploaded on his image hosting platform Pictshare.He called the police, who told him to print it out and bring it to them. However it is illegal to possess images of child abuse, digitally or in print. "Erm... not what I planned to do," Mr Haschek said.
Instead he put together a homegrown solution for identifying and removing explicit images.Mr Haschek used three Raspberry PIs, powering two Intel Movidius sticks, which can be trained to classify images. He also used an open source algorithm for identifying explicit material ca…
The $300 system in the fight against illegal images
By Zoe Kleinman
Technology reporter, BBC News
19 June 2018
Image copyright
Christian Haschek
A security researcher has built a system for detecting illegal images that costs less than $300 (£227) and uses less power than a lightbulb.Christian Haschek, who lives in Austria, came up with the solution after he discovered an image showing child sex abuse had been uploaded on his image hosting platform Pictshare.He called the police, who told him to print it out and bring it to them. However it is illegal to possess images of child abuse, digitally or in print. "Erm... not what I planned to do," Mr Haschek said.
Instead he put together a homegrown solution for identifying and removing explicit images.Mr Haschek used three Raspberry PIs, powering two Intel Movidius sticks, which can be trained to classify images. He also used an open source algorithm for identifying explicit material ca…