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minus-square@ours@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish18•20 days agoLikely, 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.
minus-square@technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish8•20 days agoThankfully it seems pretty unrealistic that someone addicted to CSAM would maintain perfect OpSec over a lifetime of abuse.
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.
Thankfully it seems pretty unrealistic that someone addicted to CSAM would maintain perfect OpSec over a lifetime of abuse.