@[email protected] to [email protected] • 21 days agoUS: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted appsarstechnica.commessage-square147fedilinkarrow-up1406cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•20 days agoLikely, data may have been encrypted but he may have leaked compromising metadata. Even more likely it was bad operation security linking a personal identity to his anonymous persona. I’m always thankful for incompetent criminals.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•20 days agoThankfully it seems pretty unrealistic that someone addicted to CSAM would maintain perfect OpSec over a lifetime of abuse.
Likely, data may have been encrypted but he may have leaked compromising metadata. Even more likely it was bad operation security linking a personal identity to his anonymous persona.
I’m always thankful for incompetent criminals.
Thankfully it seems pretty unrealistic that someone addicted to CSAM would maintain perfect OpSec over a lifetime of abuse.