POMF is shutting down... i'll need an alternative
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> Even worse, everyone in the current US administration who wasn't forced out by layoffs or principles is jockeying for power and recognition from the toddler in charge, manufacturing outright lies in the perpetuation of a false meritocracy, and I would be a juicy target for someone's promotion.
SO...now that Biden's not in charge, CP isn't in fashion anymore?
SO...now that Biden's not in charge, CP isn't in fashion anymore?
>Most importantly though, is the heightened potential for a corrupt justice system or a single braindead federal agent to see Pomf and get the wrong impression, and then proceeding to slander me and ruin my life over it, which is apparently now **kosher** to do. As you may be aware, **Pomf gets attacked by pedophiles daily** who upload vast archives of CSAM. I have worked tirelessly to actively intercept and destroy these archives way beyond what is required of me by law, and I have put in preventative measures to stop its upload like blocking Tor or specific HTTP referrers or doing informant/foreign LEO outreach or using the NCMEC hash database in-line to the upload.php script for Pomf. Of course, no security system is perfect and attackers evolve over time, so regrettably some material does make it through. Now, Pomf pushes about 600-800TB of traffic a month in general, but most of it is perfectly benign. Imagine cherry picking "CSAM" and "Massive bandwidth" from the above statements, getting a judge to sign a warrant, and the false and misleading headline "Owner of massive CSAM distribution ring arrested" suddenly seems plausible. Now imagine how hard it would be to repair that reputational damage over time even with all charges cleared. Imagine how much it would cost to even accomplish that. Nobody is coming to defend me. I'm not even newsworthy. It is honestly a miracle it hasn't happened yet, although in the back of my mind I do wonder if someone is already building that case. Even worse, everyone in the current US administration who wasn't forced out by layoffs or principles is jockeying for power and recognition from the toddler in charge, manufacturing outright lies in the perpetuation of a false meritocracy, and I would be a juicy target for someone's promotion. In reality, there was always a potential for this to happen, but I counted the occurrence of it happening as remote and therefore did not include federal or state agencies in my operational threat model, as the previous administration was largely inept, not actively malicious. These days, you'd be a fool not to at least wargame out how you would handle a potential federal or state intervention or character assassination and make preparations to counter it, even if you don't think you are vulnerable or special. You can read more in this post I made here (https://comp.lain.la/notice/B2YXE9NvZ3zNAvfNgm, you may need to click "Show Content") that discusses the current US political environment factors that pushed this portion of my risk analysis over the edge, and that was posted even before the most recent events occurred. If a federal agent reading this would like to make themselves known and assure me that this won't happen (yeah right), you can always reach out to me at my personal email. I'm sure you know it. It's a shame too, because I considered myself on the forefront of interdicting CSAM through novel measures like forcing uploaders into encrypted 7z files to evade my defenses, and then subsequently smashing those to bits through custom hashcat scripts and massive password lists that I collected from multiple sources. I even worked with the Norwegian police! I had so many great ideas to fight this plague, like starting to inject stealer log malware into successfully cracked 7z files so I could score a few pedophile arrests, or open sourcing PhotoDNA because Microsoft won't. It's not like criminals have any recourse, and it sure would be better than whatever the hell Zuckerberg is doing flooding the NCMEC tip line with 20 million largely unactionable reports a year (which is for some reason required by federal law even though it does NOTHING. Malicious compliance?). Too bad. I want nothing to do with the feds now (especially considering most of THEM are pedophiles), because as the saying goes, the fish rots from the head down. Maybe in 2029!