Covering ourselves when it comes to policing porn viewing

[Zentek]

Hi Buzzard,

 

I would support Bossman's view that common sense should prevail, however it would ultimately depend on the severity of the image in question.

 

If the image in question is of an extreme nature, and were thought to be "illegal", then you should ask your local Police to attend and take a look. Hi Tec Crime Unit, Abusive Images Unit or CID. Their opinion would be necessary.

 

However, if that approach were to be taken then be prepared for them to shut your Server down at the time of viewing and take it away for forensic examination!

 

If you had such an image, and were genuinely concerned, and are within an hour's travel of Manchester i would be willing to send one of my Technical Directors along. FOc, to view on your behalf. She is an expert in Paedophilia and worked for GMP Abusive Images Unit for 6 years. (and she won't take your Server away).

 

Additionally, if you or anyone reading this wants to contact me I would be happy to send them/you a USB pen drive that will scan your network drives/home user areas/laptops for any inappropriate images and provide you with a report as to what has been found and where. FOC.

Just request by email to [email protected]

 

 

Good luck

 

Regards

 

Andrew Ramsden.

Managing Director

Zentek Forensics Ltd.

 

Chairman

Zentek Solutions Ltd.

[chrbb]

Should we be regularly looking for 'inappropriate material' on our networks and staff laptops? If so how?

 

Because I work in a junior school I would expect that I'm unlikely to come across anything more extreme than a picture of a scantily clad female from a year 6 boy with developing hormones.

[cRaZyBoRiS]

Just wanted to bounce this topic.

 

I have only been in this role for 5 months and have spent most of that time bringing the 4 year out of date network up to scratch (SP 2 !!)

 

apart from doing a network search of .JPG or .MPG files what is going to be the best way to search for any material ?

 

This especially goes for staff laptops as I have managed to find 2 that have LIMEWire loaded on them..

 

advice would be really appreciated

 

Thanks

Chris

[GrumbleDook]

We use a combination of Counterspy to search for P2P software and we are looking at Pixalert for skin tones and so on in pictures.

 

We have a demo of PixAlert arranged for a few weeks time hopefully and I can give fuller feedback then.

 

The other thing we have is ICT Teachers randomly looking at home areas. Anything they are not happy or sure about they log the kid off and let us know immediately. The home area is search by a member of the team with a second person (support staff or reliable teacher) looking on.

 

Anything of an illegal nature is referred immediately to the Child Support Officer and CEOPs

 

We are reviewing our eSafety policy for the school to be based on County guidelines that will be published shortly.