Paraben Corporation has begun shipping a so-called “porn detection stick,” a USB drive with embedded software that intelligently combs through your (or another user’s) file structure, looking for illicit JPEGs.
The “stick” contains a version of Paraben’s P2 Commander software, which added the anti-porn detection capability in 2008. Embedding it on the USB key, however, allows the software to be installed without physically loading the CD onto the target PC.
Examining a 500-Gbyte hard drive with 70,000 images will take about 90 minutes. The search isn’t perfect; in the company’s scan, the 70,000 images yielded about 400 false positive results.
The software will log its results, and a “remember this computer” option can launch an automatic scan when re-inserted.
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