Technomaly » stick http://www.technomaly.com technology anomalies Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:25:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Porn Detection Device Created By Some Monster http://www.technomaly.com/2010/03/07/porn-detection-device-created-by-some-monster/ http://www.technomaly.com/2010/03/07/porn-detection-device-created-by-some-monster/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:00:07 +0000 Asterios Kokkinos http://www.technomaly.com/?p=3882
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    • ]]>     porn detection software stickA company named Paraben has, for some god awful reason, created a device that searches your hard drive for illicit JPEGs. It’s a USB stick – just plug and play – and a report pops up, revealing the ugly truth to whomever happens to be conducting their search.

    How’s the software work? Paraben says it scans images, then focuses on “flesh tones, shapes and curvatures, face detection, body part separation, and more” to separate out the guilty images.

    In the test case used to sell the abomination, a 500-gigabyte hard drive with 70,000 images took about 90 minutes to scan, and yielded 400 false positive results – meaning, the system’s not perfect, but it’s pretty darn close.

    The stick goes for about $100, but should be destroyed for the good of mankind. What’s next, some kind of stick that finds pornographic videos on our hard drives by analyzing sound patterns? Wait, don’t give them any ideas, me!

    Source & Image Source: PCMag

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