People producing child pornography and using the Internet to share their material could be living dangerously because of a technology developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex. The system employs software agents to rapidly and thoroughly scan confiscated hard drives to find illegal material and help rescue children from danger. "We will be combining network, text and image analysis tools to rapidly find the worst of the worst offenders," said Tom Potok of ORNL's Computational and Engineering Sciences Division. The technology dramatically reduces the amount of time required to scan a hard drive, which lessens the forensics analysis backlogs and could double the number of offenders who can be prosecuted. ORNL and Y-12 are teaming with the Tennessee Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Knoxville (Tenn.) Police Department.
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