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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Thankfully it seems pretty unrealistic that someone addicted to CSAM would maintain perfect OpSec over a lifetime of abuse.