Against technology because you think its harming social harmony or that it's making us all slaves? Well. You might have taken too many things for granted. For there are a lot of technical help to social works all over the world. But here is an example.
Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee using their supercomputer Jaguar have developed an algorithm to search suspicious patterns through internet traffic which may eventually lead them to preparation of child pornography.
The algorithm works this way. It targets the search terms in peer-peer and file sharing networks and if a search term relating to child abuse is found, it is flagged. The algorithm then analyses the response of various IP addresses to this query and points law enforcing agencies to the computer that is posting the new materials into the web.
The cause:
Pornography may well be legal in several parts of the globe, but child pornography is banned almost throughout the globe and is an evil and unforgivable act. According to recent statistics, 1 out of every 3 girls will be sexually abused by the age of 18 and one out of 7 children are abused!
But the problem with policing child pornography online is that there is simply too much of it, says Grier Weeks, executive director of the National Association to Protect Children. "We could quadruple our law enforcement dedicated to this problem overnight, and they'd still be overwhelmed," he says in an interview by New Scientist.
So, when the group at Oakridge laboratory were consulted, there were stunned over what they heard and agreed to help with their supercomputing capabilities he acknowledges.
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