https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/14/silly_police_infosec_parental_advice_poster/
The UK's National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or – brace yourself – Discord.
Issued by the West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit (WMROCU) via local area councils, the poster in question lists a slack handful of common infosec tools – as well as some that clearly have nothing to do with computer security.
Should your child install Kali Linux, virtual machines (the image on the poster looks like Virtualbox) or internet privacy tool Tor, West Midlands Police wants to know immediately. And if – Heaven forfend – your sprog installs Metasploit to learn how to secure code, uses free chat service for gamers Discord, or gets a Wi-Fi Pineapple for research, you may as well report straight to your nearest prison and abandon your tainted offspring forever.
Here is a link to the poster in question.
(Score: 4, Informative) by khallow on Saturday February 15 2020, @01:21PM (5 children)
Apparently, the denial is being walked back a little.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2020, @04:30PM (4 children)
When I was still a teenager, someone explained to me that you could use a pencil to draw your own porn -
probably because I asked him to buy me a top shelf magazine.
Being terrible at drawing, I decided I could write it instead. The great thing about PCs is that you can delete it afterwards.
And, since the invention of semiconductor memory*, if you don't save to disk, there is probably no evidence left after
powerdown.
This experience demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that mentoring can corrupt and deprave, pens and pencils
are tools of the pornographer, and that PCs are the work of the devil (especially when PC stands for Police Constibule).
* In the olden days, we had porn on PDP8s with core memory and Teletypes with hard copy ONLY UPPER CASE.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Saturday February 15 2020, @08:48PM (3 children)
But to draw your own porn you need a model, not so easy for a teenager to find, unless it is tentacle porn when you just use imagination.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 16 2020, @04:02AM (2 children)
You can find a clothed woman in a magazine and lay a sheet of paper over it and trace all the details except for the clothing. Then draw nipples on the boob outlines and a small triangle of fur by pencil burnishing.
(Score: 2) by pipedwho on Sunday February 16 2020, @04:48AM (1 child)
Porn is != to nudity
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Sunday February 16 2020, @05:41AM
No, but lots of people use nude imagery as porn. And, per GPs comment, you could easily create 'prurient' material through tracing over clothed figures and introducing your own 'enhancements'.