USB Stick Scans Your PC for Porn
In case you forgot where you stored them.
For those of us who have older kids surfing the Internet, the Porn Detection Stick (PDS) could certainly be a handy tool. Developed by Paraben, this $100 thumb drive scanning device will dig through your hard drive and uncover currently stored images--or previously deleted for that matter--related to pornographic imagery.
"The Porn Detection Stick uses a complex series of algorithms to analyze flesh tones, shapes and curvatures, face detection, body part separation, and more to alert you to images likely to contain pornographic material," said Proof Pronto, a re-seller of the USB device.
Or it could just do a system wide search for *.JPG, etc.
Using Windows-compatible image detection software, the PDS will scan around 70,000 images in less than two hours. The device cannot detect pornographic videos, nor can it can scan images on the Internet. Nevertheless, Paraben promises less than 1-percent false positives on images found locally on the drive.
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Great...you've realized your son watching porn...now what? Awkward story about the bird and the bees?
i guess i need an external drive now.. thanks a lot :S
gotta love when ppl shell out $100 for something to replace a tiny bit of know-how (history, recent documents). Besides, I'll bet it can't scan images in encrypted archives, which is probably when a kid with the type of parent who'd spend $100 for this port detector drive would hide theirs.
and lol @ the fact that it hunts down images but cant do anything about video. i'm pretty sure that format has caught on for porn.
I think I will teach my son about full disk encryption and placing his porn under "Taxes 2008" in a password protected folder.
Who looks at porn pics anymore? Videos FTW! I mean, with dial-up virtually a thing of the past, downloading and streaming is so much more...well, more effective for that purpose (not that I'd know lol), if that's what you're looking for.
hehe.. porn stick....
i guess if i find one of these, i know what to do....
what a worthless piece of equipment...
Can it detect and scan hidden partitians?
I think this could be fun to play with and see how much false positives it can give me.
$100 do find the multi-gig folder called "homework" hidden 6 levels into a random folder that contains nothing else? Nah, I think I can find that on my own...
Besides that, there is market for this? Are these parents just illiterate with computers or lazy? Though this is a bit late in the day of streams... Any child knowingly disobeying their parents and looking at porn is miles ahead of being able to avoid this kind of tech...
I hide all my porn in encrypted archives and change the file extensions to ".dat"
I get the feeling this will be used more by suspecting spouses then anyone else. For $100, the limitations are to much. Pictures only and I'd be willing to bet it can't scan archieves, etc. There are better ways to hide/find porn then this. The difference is you have to know how.
just password disable your usb drives...done!
"images found locally on the drive." I lol'd.
Great, it doesn't matter anyways because I store porn videos in my computers.
I wonder if it will pick up cached internet porn pics. Even if your on a site for videos, there will be a few pics on the site.
35,000 images an hour?
This thing would be busy all day.
LOL...
This is for Dad so he can leech the porn off his sons (or daughters) computer.
Hey... thumbs up for anyone who sells this and finds suckers for it.
- Picasa can find photos. (free)
- Space Monger is a great way to find files (free)
Type in a search window words like: pu**, Fu**, whor*, slut, coc*, bukake, girls, MILF, etc... that'll work.
If you kid is hiding his porn that good... let him keep it.
No one seems to realize, this can also be used to find LOST pictures and such. Also, if it finds the pictures, it's quite likely you store most of your collection in one place or close to that so all you'd have to do is just follow the path to the glory ho- folder and ta-da! You'll have all your pics and vidyaz thar. So then you can be all like "Dayum, I forgot I had this stuff..." or it could make you cringe because you had some odd fetishes back in the day but that's a different story...
Porn is a way of life if any women(the only people using this) think they can stop a mans desire for porn they are mistaken.
One potential market for this product, lazy store "techs". Saves them scouting around your hard drive or running long catch all searchs in order to find home made porn to steal, lets face it your "home movies" are gonna be somewhere close to your home made pics
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As far as keeping an eye on kids goes, As a long serving IT manager I "hope" I can outwit my kids. The oldest is 7 Ive got a few years yet before my wife and I need to decide what stance we're gonna taken on that. My wifes German so she grew up with porn on regular TV and a TV in her bedroom. I grew up in Britain, before the internet. Underwear section of a catalogue was about as good as it got in my teens.
I'm still at a loss to understand why some people find it acceptable for children to see images of one person's hand smashing into the face of another person, but change the body parts and it's "whoa there" - taboo; even if they're quite happy for the body parts to be doing whatever they're doing. What an odd world...
What a load of BS.
Kids can watch a violent film (blood, gore and the rest), but god forbid they should see a nipple (see J. Jackson "wardrobe malfunction")
Besides, as many posters already said, video streaming is where it is at now, so what is the point of this?
It can't even scan movies?! What the hell is that for? "Still porn" is so 1995.
err...can't they just write a software for it instead of putting it on a usb stick? unless they wanna store those naughty images onto the drive at the same time...
actually, i think geek squad would be all over this, since they routinely scan computers that come in for pr0n, according to consumerist
What a load of BS. Kids can watch a violent film (blood, gore and the rest), but god forbid they should see a nipple (see J. Jackson "wardrobe malfunction")Besides, as many posters already said, video streaming is where it is at now, so what is the point of this?
Sure begs the question which is worse? I too find it a little strange, for lack of a better word, that violence is giving a passing glance compared to whether or not a kid sees some woman's breasts. I guess extremism is here today, tomorrow it will be the other way around. Its all based on who yells the loudest in protest.
Search *.jpg
Imagine that USB Stick picture above but with this on it instead:
"Colon Detection Rectal Stick"
The day may come when colon detection may be in a stick...hopefully a small one like this. *Cringes*....
Big market for this in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Customs would love it.
I doubt a lot of people store images when there are videos.
I don't see the point in this. First off, if it's for suspecting spouses; they should be trusting. If it's for parents; Eww, and you're not going to stop children looking at porn. Bosses; Okay, I understand this one. Schools; I understand this one. Everyone else; Probably scanning their friend's PCs to find pictures of their girlfriends. Sick.
Big market for this in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Customs would love it.
That's kinda scary that they do that...