[potatosareok]

Searching for collisions in a corpus of robust hashes seems to me like the post office drug sniffing packages, and people seem to be ok with that. The same way the drug sniff dog won't give away anything other then drug/no drugs (is that how they work? I thought so?), this scheme shouldn't give anything away more then CP/no CP.

At the same time I think that to eliminate CP entirely you need to get rid of some of the freedoms we enjoy. I'm sure you can 100% get rid of CP if you track what everyone is looking at on their computers, but is that a tradeoff you want to make? Even if the filter really only can ever report looking at CP/not looking at CP, would you be comfortable with that running on everything you own?

I could be arguing to a nonsensical extreme, but the NSA tracking all data is following this to some perverted extreme - if we can track EVERYTHING that is going on, and eventually actually make actionable data out of it, we can catch all the criminals/stop crime. But I think we accept the possibility of a bit more crime in exchange for preserving some of our freedoms.