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by flumpcakes 22 days ago
It already exists. Most CSAM tools are checking against a hash database.

Why would you NOT want this to exist? This seems the only method to not raise false positives.

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Let's delete it then.

Why? Because I don't want such pictures to be kept or archived by anyone. This isn't hard.

I'm unsure how these databases work, although it could simply be a database of hashes, with the file contents deleted. That sounds like the sane, safe way to handle this.