US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps
arstechnica.com
Encryption alone won't save you from the feds.

All the recent dark net arrests seem to be pretty vague on how the big bad was caught (except the IM admin’s silly opsec errors) In the article they say he clicked on a honeypot link, but how was his ip or any other identifier identified, why didnt tor protect him.

Obviously this guy in question was a pedophile and an active danger, but recently in my country a state passed a law that can get you arrested if you post anything the government doesnt like, so these tools are important and need to be bulletproof.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Compromised ? Maybe, but this guy doesn’t provide any evidence one way or the other. He’s using at least 7 other possible vectors (apparently Calculator Photo Vault just hides the gallery, no encryption, so it’s over right there) which is way too many for good opsec.

    With Tor the question has always been compromised exit nodes as I understand it.

      • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 months ago

        Not against a government that can compel the organizations who issue the https certificates and run the https servers. And not against leaks that occur outside of https.