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US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps (arstechnica.com)

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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

It seems irrelevant whether this person is using encrypted channels if they failed to maintain anonymity. If they distributed material and leaked any identifying info (e.g. IP address), then it would be trivial for investigators or CIs to track them down.

[–] addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i watched some documatnary about hackers, and usually, they catch them because they talk way to mouch about themselves.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This dude wasn't a hacker by any stretch

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

But when you do anything illegal like this, you need to act like one.

[–] addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

i believe thats a given....

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