Bad scripts and bad people make for bad data retention laws

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I got to thinking about the esteemed Congresscritter from Colorado's befuddled response to her mandatory data retention law, and got amused at how easily a badly configured HTTP proxy could be fooled into registering false positives. Imagine running a script like this on someone you hate's computer, only with domains and file names that don't look absurdly fake on their face like the ones I used:


import httplib

domains = [
    "www.wehostkiddyporn.com",
    "www.welikeemreeeelyoung.com",
    "www.misckiddypornsite.com"
]
files = [
    "13yoldgangbang.jpeg",
    "12suck_dick.jpeg",
    "6yrold_teacher.jpeg"
]

for domain in domains:
    con = httplib.HTTPConnection(domain, "80")
    for file in files:
        con.request("GET", file)
        con.close()

The scary part is that let's say that it does come up as a bunch of 404 errors, as it should. How many cops, judges and jurors are not going to believe that this script's bogus requests weren't a sincere effort to get ahold of some illegal content? Reason 53,632 why this is a dangerous bill.

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