In the list of apps he was using I don’t see any mention of a VPN. How much you want to bet he raw dogged it with encrypted apps over the clearnet so it was trivial to leak his real IP address
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tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
It seems irrelevant whether this person is using encrypted channels. 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.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Baalial@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
He posted the AI filth to a “public server”, so I’m willing to bet his plan was just full of holes. I don’t mind pedos getting taken down, buy I do mind encrypted software being owned by the government - any government.
Clent@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It sounds like he created material, not only AI but actual children then distributed it. The tools to track down the creators of CASM is only getting better.
A single legal image of any of those children posted to social media is going to allow algorithms to make the match and its routine detective work from there.
It only takes one child to talk. No amount of encryption is going to stop that.
addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
i watched some documatnary about hackers, and usually, they catch them because they talk way to mouch about themselves.
x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Bad OPSEC is what that’s called.
addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
thanks!
psmgx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This dude wasn’t a hacker by any stretch
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
But when you do anything illegal like this, you need to act like one.
addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
i believe thats a given…
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All this is obvious.
Since nobody pressures Signal and Wire in Europe, it really seems to me that the pressure is mostly applied to those who do have the ability to spy upon their users.
That would be too optimistic about humanity, but maybe not. What if.
ours@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Thankfully it seems pretty unrealistic that someone addicted to CSAM would maintain perfect OpSec over a lifetime of abuse.