The Internet is for Porn!

1. How High Heels and Fishnet have Driven Internet Innovation & Information Security: The Internet is for Porn! Chris Kubecka SecurityEvangelistEU.wordpress.com All are welcome in the House of Bytes English Language Presentation

2. Disclaimer This presentation is solely the opinion of the presenter and not necessarily shared by any clients, current or subsequent employers of the presenter. The presentation is published under a Creative Commons Un-ported 3.0 license

3. Who am I? • Currently advises for several NGOs who protect/serve victims of sexual trafficking in a voluntary/unpaid capacity • Experienced investigator for legal and illegal pornography incidents

4. Questions for Last Hope #9 • How many have heard of “friends” using the internet to surf porn? • Have you ever investigated security incidents involving pornography in a professional capacity? • Does anyone think they were exposed to illegal pornography online?

5. What is Legal Pornography? • Not any photography or computer generated images involving or depicting minors (18 U.S.C. §2256) >18 years • Erotic materials not considered obscene • Definition differs from jurisdiction to country • “I know it when I see it!”

6. Porn Driven Internet Innovation • First porn online services offered in late 1980s with after the arrival of the home PC • World Wide Web usage rose dramatically • Dot Com boom driven by global demand for porn

7. Security related incidents • Melissa virus 1999 • Anna Kournikova virus 2001 • Naked Wife virus 2001 • PC Stripper 2007 • Turing Porn Farm 2008 • Twitter Porn Spam 2009 • Operation Titstorm 2010 • Facebook Porn Spam 2011 • Anti-Child Porn Spam Protection Randsomware 2012

8. Porn driven security • Pop up blockers • Policy based internet filtration • Policy based email filtration • Pushing for TLS over SSL • Privacy mode in web browsers-Porn Mode • Digital IDs to ensure age verification • Private VPNs/proxies • Safer to surf porn than to read blogs

9. Economics of Internet Porn • Unknown revenue generated by: web proxy filters email/spam filters employee web browsing costs hard/software • internet pornography generates more revenue than all combined revenues of all of the NFL, Major League Baseball and NBA sports franchises • In the USA a new porn movie is created on average every 39 minutes • Global market estimated at $4.9 billion

10. Global Adult Porn Legality • Cybercafé owners are required to photograph their customers • All computer screens must be in plain sight • A copy of client identification is kept • Browsing histories are stored for at least 1 year • Each month Cybercafés must forward this data to the government

11. Thailand Current Blacklist • Started as child pornography protection • Any website which depicts minors engaged in any erotic or obscene situations is illegal • >1200 websites critical of the royal family are blocked • Blacklist is not transparent

12. Australian Blacklist

13. Current USA Climate • Previous and current presidential administrations support the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) • Parallels between ACTA, PIPA and SOPA • A Presidential candidate has stated if elected he will sign an executive order to block or otherwise censor legal pornography on every home computer to protect minors from exposure

14. Current International Climate • ACTA was defeated by the EU parliament on 4th of July, 2012 • The United Kingdom is considering opt-in for legal porn at the ISP level • The United Kingdom is considering a black box installed in every home or personal computer to monitor all activity • ACTA is back with CEPA a Canadian/EU agreement without any parliamentary approval or process

15. What can be done? • Appropriate transparency of all government sponsored blacklists • Censorship of the internet should be based on legislation or judicial authority not opinion • Information technology expertise should be consulted prior to legislation and implementation

16. Know your Representatives • US Elected Officials http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml • United Kingdom Parliament Members http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/ • India Parliament Members http://www.india.gov.in/howdo/otherservice_details.php?service=23 • European Union Parliament Members http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html

17. Organizations against Censorship • USA-American Civil Liberties Association (ACLU) http://www.aclu.org/ • Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) https://www.eff.org/ • International Pirate Party http://www.pp-international.net/ • France/Germany Chaos Computer Club https://ccc.de • International Declaration of Freedom http://www.internetdeclaration.org/freedom

18. Organizations to report Child Pornography • National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – Report any Child Pornography in the USA 1-800-843-5678 https://report.cybertip.org/index.htm • International Association of Internet Hotlines INHOPE http://www.inhope.org/gns/report-here.aspx Virtual Global Taskforce combating online child sexual abuse http://www.virtualglobaltaskforce.com/report-abuse/

19. References/Attributions • National Center for Missing and Exploited Children • Merriam-webster.com • Wikipedia user NuclearVacuum (pornography laws map) • Wikipedia user Hoshie (Obama IMG) • http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ (Censored) • Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment? Benjamin Edelman