That crap is everywhere. When I got my first RV, I was looking for a site specifically related to the Travco motorhomes. To my surprise, the site opened with a porn picture.
I uded the DELETE button and carefully retyped the web address. It again popped up on my screen. DELETE ! ! !
The third time I types each character one by one and verified each one before proceeding to the next character. ENTER ....
Not Again! DELETE!!!
I then got in contact with the man who gave me the web address. He laughed and said I had confused a small “L” with the number “1”.
That made all the difference. Travco images came up, not porn images.
Moral: Thanks to the police state mentality you can become a felon by mere typo.
Isn’t living in the Liberal, post structuralist, United Police States of AMerica wonderful?
Remember, it is a crime to destroy evidence.
Of course Now I have a tight spam filter an do not open any strange messages ever
Additionally, people who use file-sharing programs like Limewire need to be extra vigilant. There's a lot of nasty stuff that could be inadvertently accessed, even while searching for "safe" files.
It doesn't matter. It still landed somewhere you had access to. It doesn't have to be your own computer. Actually, it's worse if it lands in an internet email account - they have so many customers it doesn't hurt them in the slightest to hang someone out to dry.
I've been a network email administrator amongst other related things for almost three decades. What kind of experience do you have with this sort of thing?
Question: If someone walks by your house/apartment, stuffs your mailbox with child porn, then arranges to have someone call the police asking them (in not so many words) to look at your mailbox, are you guilty?
"Tight spam filters" aren't. "Tight controls" aren't. Not when it comes to email. Who cares whether you "opened" the message or not? Possession is 9/10s of the law. The imap protocol is a nice convenience, but it has extinguished any traditional concept of possession.
I have over 30 years experience with electronic mail mostly as a developer (the faceless programmer who has to write the code to make the stuff work) and I also work for the company that routes most of the internet packets in the world. What's yours?