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Installation
Depending on your need, SCARt can be install by your own technical department or by our technical partners.
For testing purposes, you can use the standalone docker version which can easily setup in a local environment. You can get a first impression of the tool. For more details, see the Testing installation guide.
When you want to have a local installation of SCARt and don't get that many reports, you can install SCARt in a webserver environment. For more details, see the Webserver installation guide.
When you are a hot- or helpline with more then 2 analysts and are processing more then 100 reports each day, then you are adviced to use the professional service from the S3group. This is also an option when you or your organization don't have the technical skills to setup or maintain a SCARt hosting environment. For more details, see SCARt as a Service.
General description
The primary workflow in SCART is based on automatically scraping input URL's, let the analyst classify (annotate) these and automatically sending hosters Notice and Take Down (NTD'S) emails to the hosters with the URL's of illegal images.
The import can be done manual, but also automatically be read by SCARt from ICCAM (Inhope) and website forms. See chapter Import.
The classification can be done based on default questions provided in SCARt, but you can add your own questions. Each image can be viewed and marked as illegal or not illegal. Also you can set "first police" by which the URL's first are send to the Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) contact you provided. See chapter Classification.
After classification SCARt will monitor the illegal classified URL's. For each hoster the URL's are grouped within one NTD. Periodally the URL's are checked if the image is still online. If so, a new NTD's will be send. See chapter NTD....
Important is that all information in SCARt can be exported for statics or other
reasons.
See chapter Report.
Within SCARt different kind of functions are included such as:
- Automatic rules based on a domain specification
- Maintenance of abuse contacts
- Workflow management sending to LEA
- workflow management change of hosting information
- maintenance of own source definitions
- maintenance of own NTD (email) templates
- Cloudflare lookup of the real IP address
- block days on which NTD's will not be send
Start with going through the basics, use it and check the details for help.
Abbreviations & terms
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| SCART | Sexual Child Abuse Reporting Tool, https://scart.io |
| YAML | Yet Another Markup Language, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator, eg https://www.example.com |
| Referrer | Identifies the address of the web page (url) from which the resource has been requested |
| Scrape | The process of getting the images from a web page uniquely addressed by the url |
| LEA | Law Enforcement Agency is any government agency responsible for law enforcement within a specific jurisdiction |
| mainurl | The report with image (media) content items attached to it |
| imageurl | A content item existing of a image or video or other internet content |
Used standards in the text
Reference to functions are made in uppercase. So for example INPUTS or CLASSIFY refer to this function in the main menu of SCARt.