You said — “If your kids share any of these images on the home computer, the images can be retrieved from the hard drive even if you believe you “deleted” them. Should the authorities ever look on the computer and find these images, get ready to register as a sex offender for a very long time after you get out of prison.”
Anyone should be concerned about deleting things from their computer for various reasons. One good one is if you sell the computer or replace the hard drive. If the hard drive is shot and replaced, you should take a sledge hammer and pound it into pieces, especially the inside platters. Make a real mess of it. That’s assuming that it doesn’t work any more and you can’t do a real good “scrubbing” of the hard drive.
Otherwise, there are programs that are available to really scrub the hard drives. The more effective you want it, the longer it’s going to take. But, that wouldn’t be a bad idea, in any case.
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However, concerning pictures that your kids send, that could be a problem. If you’re concerned, you can get a program that can monitor all the activity on your computer. It’s spyware, but it will do the job. You’ll, at least, know what’s going on and if you have to do anything about it.
But, as far as the “kid culture” is concerned, the situation is bad and a lot is going on. Whether you think so or not, with your own kids — it more than likely *is* going on.
I mean, I can talk to some kids in the family about what is going on with “so and so” — somewhat distantly removed and I can be told, “Yeah, she thinks because her daughter is going to a good Christian school that she’s not doing anything. She doesn’t know what ‘so-and-so’ and her boyfriend are doing.” And this is supposedly from a “real good kid”, you see...
And from what I’ve read on prior threads and other things that are going on in our culture, this is a massive problem. The entire culture is hyper-sexualized and the kids are going right along with it — and I mean *kids* — like 10-11-12-13 and up...
It’s a bad situation...
I had a hard drive fail. I sent it to a recovery firm, and they can recover nearly anything. I can only imagine the feds have a lot more power.
That said, I will never let a hard drive leave my possession again.