Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
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Re: Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
#2There is some heavy editorializig by the BBC here.
As a cheese lover, the cheese was fine. That person just posted a photo that also included their fingertips.
Re: Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
#3There is some heavy editorializig by the BBC here. As a cheese lover, the cheese was fine. That person just posted a photo that also included their fingertips.
It was posted as a "cheese photo", it just happened to include his fingerprints.
Re: Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
#4There is some heavy editorializig by the BBC here. As a cheese lover, the cheese was fine. That person just posted a photo that also included their fingertips.
I was hoping it'd be some extremely rare regional cheese that allowed them to find the guy.
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#5There is some heavy editorializig by the BBC here. As a cheese lover, the cheese was fine. That person just posted a photo that also included their fingertips.
I was hoping it'd be some extremely rare regional cheese that allowed them to find the guy.
I kind of wanted it to be a Wallace and Grommet crossover with Breaking Bad.
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#6In reality, the police were likely violating his rights and doing some good old fashioned parallel construction. They had his prints from his products, knew who he was already, waited until they watched him post a picture of cheese, then claimed it was only the picture that caused him to be caught.
This is a clear change in police methods, enabled by tech, and an abuse of your constitutional rights if this was a U.S. citizen. But hey, it’s funny because the guy liked cheese.
Re: Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
#7This is a very good example of showing that decentralized anonymous communication channels of any type are not enough to ensure free speech. I'm not saying that this particular example has anything to do with free speech, but it does show that you can not speak freely even over encrypted anonymous channels. You can still easily be doxed.
We can not rely on any technology to ensure freedom of speech. We need to engender social acceptance and our laws to encourage it.
Re: Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
#8In reality, the police were likely violating his rights and doing some good old fashioned parallel construction. They had his prints from his products, knew who he was already, waited until they watched him post a picture of cheese, then claimed it was only the picture that caused him to be caught. This is a clear change in police methods, enabled by tech, and an abuse of your constitutional rights if this was a U.S.…
Almost certainly true and seems to show a fairly deep understanding of police work in the real world. I am truly conflicted about these techniques.
Re: Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
#9In reality, the police were likely violating his rights and doing some good old fashioned parallel construction. They had his prints from his products, knew who he was already, waited until they watched him post a picture of cheese, then claimed it was only the picture that caused him to be caught. This is a clear change in police methods, enabled by tech, and an abuse of your constitutional rights if this was a U.S.…
If the photo in the article is the actual photo posted, then I'm most impressed. It seems out of focus in all the areas you'd expect to need detail to match fingerprints.
Re: Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
#10In reality, the police were likely violating his rights and doing some good old fashioned parallel construction. They had his prints from his products, knew who he was already, waited until they watched him post a picture of cheese, then claimed it was only the picture that caused him to be caught. This is a clear change in police methods, enabled by tech, and an abuse of your constitutional rights if this was a U.S.…
Nope this is all from the compromise of Encrochat.
There have been dozens of stories about the pseudonymous users of that service being linked back to real identities since the initial first large wave of arrests
Sometimes you don’t need crazy parallel construction theories - just a simple criminal network cracked because the participants believed it to be secure