Thanks.

I really enjoyed the hunt. I used to scan through 16 million lines of logs per day. I used PERL scripts to do a lot of the sorting then scanned through the output from the PERL. I also had a script that downloaded every image that was included in my extract file. I found things every day and would make a few phone calls to users to say, "Everything you do online is logged and I can see EVERYTHING. I would like to remind you of your obligations under [policy]. None of this is in writing and there will be no record of this conversation. If I have to call you again things will be very different." That solved 99% of the problems. The other 1% sometimes got nasty.

My director told me when I started that it wasn't for everyone and it could have an impact on you that you wouldn't perceive right away. He said I could stop any time I needed to. He said if I needed help I would get it immediately. Having that out and that safety net really helped. He was working on a big CP case and thought that he was ok until he went home one night and was putting his coat in the closet when his wife came up behind him and hugged him from behind and he said, "GET THE FUCK OFF ME!" He immediately sought help after that to get him through the end of that investigation.

There was CP but I never had to deal with a CP investigation, just the occasional image that I had to deal with, but I did have a LOT of violence, violent porn, violent bondage, murder videos, etc. that I had to deal with. It was the environment that we worked in.

I have Asperger's which made me good with the logs and the hunt. It also made me able to isolate that stuff.