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It identifies files by alternative means (so just renaming the .jpg to .whatever will NOT do the trick)

"Sophisticated parameters" means that it looks for skin tones, and then measures how much of the image has skin on it (as opposed to, say, landscape)... If the skin-to-landscape ratio is high, it reports it as "possible pr0n"

On videos I think it also looks for movement patterns..

But this is definitely not new. Whoever claimed it as "new" is a scam

(I don't remember the name of the other program, I've been using Linux for a long time... I don't know about Windows things anymore)]]>Nov 10th 2008 9:37PM