Well it probably wasn’t a Vic Mackey-style rubber hose attack, because it sounds like this chump is getting hauled into court.
Comment on US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months agoNeither Tor nor end-to-end encrypted messengers will cover the endpoints. It’s likely that they caught him using good old fashioned detective work.
mkwt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please don’t talk about child predators, and use the term “back door” in the same sentence. It ain’t right…
yoshisaur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
we’re talking about encryption here, not…that. please get your mind out of the gutter
Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Tor was created by NSA, half of Tor servers are run by NSA, not that secure
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Tor was created by the NRL, which is a part of the US Navy and Marine Corps.
psmgx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.