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How High Heels and Fishnet have Driven Internet Innovation
& Information Security:
Chris Kubecka
SecurityEvangelistEU.wordpress.com
All are welcome in the House of Bytes
English Language Presentation
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Who am I?
Currently advises for several NGOs who
protect/serve victims of sexual trafficking
in a voluntary/unpaid capacity
 Experienced investigator for legal and
illegal pornography incidents
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Questions for Last Hope #9
How many have heard of “friends” using
the internet to surf porn?
 Have you ever investigated security
incidents involving pornography in a
professional capacity?
 Does anyone think they were exposed
to illegal pornography online?
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What is Legal Pornography?
Not any photography or computer
generated images involving or depicting
minors (18 U.S.C. §2256) >18 years
 Erotic materials not considered obscene
 Definition differs from jurisdiction to
country
 “I know it when I see it!”
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Porn Driven Internet Innovation
First porn online services offered in late
1980s with after the arrival of the home
PC
 World Wide Web usage rose
dramatically
 Dot Com boom driven by global demand
for porn
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Security related incidents
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Melissa virus 1999
Anna Kournikova virus 2001
Naked Wife virus 2001
PC Stripper 2007
Turing Porn Farm 2008
Twitter Porn Spam 2009
Operation Titstorm 2010
Facebook Porn Spam 2011
Anti-Child Porn Spam Protection
Randsomware 2012
Porn driven security
Pop up blockers
 Policy based internet filtration
 Policy based email filtration
 Pushing for TLS over SSL
 Privacy mode in web browsers-Porn Mode
 Digital IDs to ensure age verification
 Private VPNs/proxies
 Safer to surf porn than to read blogs
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Economics of Internet Porn
Unknown revenue generated by:
web proxy filters
email/spam filters
employee web browsing costs hard/software
 internet pornography generates more
revenue than all combined revenues of all
of the NFL, Major League Baseball and
NBA sports franchises
 In the USA a new porn movie is created on
average every 39 minutes
 Global market estimated at $4.9 billion
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Global Adult Porn Legality
Cybercafé owners are required to
photograph their customers
 All computer screens must be in plain sight
 A copy of client identification is kept
 Browsing histories are stored for at least 1
year
 Each month Cybercafés must forward this
data to the government
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Thailand Current Blacklist
Started as child pornography protection
 Any website which depicts minors
engaged in any erotic or obscene
situations is illegal
 >1200 websites critical of the royal
family are blocked
 Blacklist is not transparent
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Australian Blacklist
Current USA Climate
Previous and current presidential
administrations support the AntiCounterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA)
 Parallels between ACTA, PIPA and
SOPA
 A Presidential candidate has stated if
elected he will sign an executive order to
block or otherwise censor legal
pornography on every home computer
to protect minors from exposure
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Current International Climate
ACTA was defeated by the EU parliament
on 4th of July, 2012
 The United Kingdom is considering opt-in
for legal porn at the ISP level
 The United Kingdom is considering a black
box installed in every home or personal
computer to monitor all activity
 ACTA is back with CEPA a Canadian/EU
agreement without any parliamentary
approval or process
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What can be done?
Appropriate transparency of all
government sponsored blacklists
 Censorship of the internet should be
based on legislation or judicial authority
not opinion
 Information technology expertise should
be consulted prior to legislation and
implementation
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Know your Representatives
US Elected Officials
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
 United Kingdom Parliament Members
http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/
 India Parliament Members
http://www.india.gov.in/howdo/otherservice_d
etails.php?service=23
 European Union Parliament Members
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/searc
h.html
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Organizations against Censorship
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USA-American Civil Liberties Association
(ACLU)
http://www.aclu.org/
Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF)
https://www.eff.org/
International Pirate Party
http://www.pp-international.net/
France/Germany Chaos Computer Club
https://ccc.de
International Declaration of Freedom
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/freedom
Organizations to report Child
Pornography
National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children – Report any Child Pornography in
the USA
1-800-843-5678
https://report.cybertip.org/index.htm
 International Association of Internet Hotlines
INHOPE
http://www.inhope.org/gns/report-here.aspx
Virtual Global Taskforce combating online child
sexual abuse
http://www.virtualglobaltaskforce.com/reportabuse/
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References/Attributions
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National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children
Merriam-webster.com
Wikipedia user NuclearVacuum
(pornography laws map)
Wikipedia user Hoshie (Obama IMG)
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ (Censored)
Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult
Entertainment? Benjamin Edelman