US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps

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US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps
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Fuck this human

Tldr; Asshole used encrypted everything and Tor to create and spread csam. Government isn't disclosing how they caught him

If you distribute encrypted materials you also need to distribute a means of decryption. I'm willing to bet a honeypot was used to trick him into distributing his csam right to the government hinself.

True. Or it could have been a backdoor in his phone, or the full running browser in his sim card, or the backdoor into his CPU chips... Maybe they do old fashioned police work for these cases and only use the pegasus spyware for others?

Pretty silly to do anything illegal on a computer when we know how flawed they are, imo

Hey, could I get some info on the

Full running browser in his SIM card

Thing?

I'm quite curious and haven't been able of finding anything on the internet about it

Neither Tor nor end-to-end encrypted messengers will cover the endpoints. It's possible that they caught him using good old fashioned detective work. You don't need a software back door for that.

Tor was created by NSA, half of Tor servers are run by NSA, not that secure

Tor was created by the Naval Research Labs, and was released to the public because it is secure.

The problem is that if it's only the CIA or DIA using it, it's easy figure out who is using it and where. Make it global and now there is a lot of noise to separate out.

Please don't talk about child predators, and use the term "back door" in the same sentence. It ain't right....

we’re talking about encryption here, not…that. please get your mind out of the gutter