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Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there were as many women in prison as men you can be sure there would be as many or more men interested in them.

Can I be sure? How? There are plenty of women in prison as-is, although high profile cases are rarer.

Relatively speaking there aren't plenty of women in prison for violent crimes. It's about a 9:1 ratio. Men obsessively sexualise everything in our patriarchal society.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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post #137

This is an old story about an old investigation. It is old news dredged up to try to win sympathy for DHS/ICE. It is propaganda resurrected to make DHS look useful. They cherry-picked a story that they knew would win public sympathy since no one wants a child molester to run free. Lets show a time when an agent solved a case for an excellent outcome. Pick a DHS/ICE story from this year and see what kind of dystopic s…

The BBC spent 5 years making a documentary and just finished. They had no idea that the US would in its current state when they started. That doesn't free them from criticism of the content, but the timing is a coincidence. I haven't watched the video (linked from the article) and I certainly hope the current events caused them to reflect on whether pushing for DHS to have more power is wise, but the last line in the…

Although the past couple of years have been an even more stark descent into incompetence and malice, there has not been a moment in DHS's 24-year history at which it was worth defending, let alone with this pattern of propaganda.

It is perfectly possible to investigate and prevent child abuse without this particular configuration.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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So do I read it correctly that good old detective work did the job, and that breaking e2e encryption and client side scanning wasn’t needed? Politicians tell me a different story.

Not that I agree with either of those things but I think the implicit argument is that breaking encryption would lead to faster arrest and fewer years of abuse for the victims.

Except people wouldnt post such material to TOR if they knew the crypto is backdoored. They'd post it to an alternative that ignores the law

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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post #29

First of all, sorry to hear about the poor girl’s ordeal, and I’m glad she was rescued. But after reading about all that complicated digital sleuthing, it basically comes down to this: "The team realised that in the household with Lucy was her mother’s boyfriend - a convicted sex offender." I feel like the police should’ve started there: cross-referencing people in her close circle against a list of known sex offende…

Or, you know, if they knew who she was they would just go and rescue her?

How are people struggling so much with basic logic on this one? This is quite strange. Are some of you just unable to imagine having limited knowledge and not being able to just look everything up?

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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post #209
post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

95% of cases are settled before reaching jury trial. Usually a plea bargain for criminal cases. Settlement for civil cases. Or dismissal. The other 5% are expensive.

Would peeing in a bush be a criminal charge? I'm not American but I thought there was a difference between misdemeanors and "actual" crimes.

Unfortunately in the US we do in fact go so far as to criminalize urinating in public. It's weird to me that speeding (up to some limit) in a school zone is ranked below pissing in a shrub along the road.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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So do I read it correctly that good old detective work did the job, and that breaking e2e encryption and client side scanning wasn’t needed? Politicians tell me a different story.

Not that I agree with either of those things but I think the implicit argument is that breaking encryption would lead to faster arrest and fewer years of abuse for the victims.

They don't even arrest pedophiles when they have them on video tape and a client list when the president is on them. This has all become one big joke, justice I mean. There is no justice.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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post #20

I’ve spent just a teeny bit of time helping international ICE investigators (not that one; internet child exploitation) postpone PTSD with technology. It seems like after two years of their job, they’re going to have a mental break. So postponing is all you can really do. It’s disheartening how underfunded these agencies are compared to, what feels like at least, the severity of the crimes they’re up against. These f…

Another comment mentioned ICE as well, so I've been looking into it, and imagine my surprise to learn that ICE (yes that one) has been working in this space since since the Obama admin. Huh. https://www.ice.gov/careers/hero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_for_Victims_of_Traffic...

This administration pulled people off catching child predators to go after some Juan at home depot. in light of the epstein coverup, its hardly surprising.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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post #233

first part of the article reads: Darkweb a encrypted part of the internet. Isn't darkweb just the part where bots don't index? is it realy encrypted?

I thought that was the deep web. The dark web I always understood as referring to the Tor network.
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