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How Ashton Kutcher is building tech to fight child sex traffickers

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Re: How Ashton Kutcher is building tech to fight child sex traffickers

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Can they not make it open source to get help from the community? I am sure many would sign up to the cause.

I imagine a large part of Thorn's effectiveness comes from exploiting weaknesses in trafficker's infosec. If traffickers could see how the software works they could figure out ways to hide from it. That would likely be a net loss compared to what the open source community could do to help.