Human agents, for once, not AI agents.
Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
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#272Am I reading this correctly that the address where they found the child was where her mother’s boyfriend was living? > "So we narrowed it down to [this] one address… and started the process of confirming who was living there through state records, driver's licence… information on schools," says Squire. > The team realised that in the household with Lucy was her mother's boyfriend - a convicted sex offender. There’s a…
The registry did come up, as soon as they had enough information for it to be useful. They were looking for a specific child, starting just from the images that her abuser was sharing on the internet (in which he intentionally tried to hide identifying details).
The registry is just a big list of names and addresses.
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#273Note: the "agent" the title refers to has nothing to do with an AI/LLM agent. Originally I thought this had something to do with an AI agent, as if someone put an AI agent in charge of identifying dark web pictures for clues. It's a good story nevertheless and I'm glad the victim was rescued, but nothing to do with AI/LLMs.
The term "agent" with regards to law enforcement substantially predates "agent" in the context of AI.
True, but with every other article on HN being about AI nowadays I assumed there was something to it.
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many of these sex offenders bought this couch and live close to this brick factory in homes built in that time period?
About 0.3% of the adult population is on registries in the US. With 40,000 couch sales, there would be roughly 120 sex offenders would have bought that couch. You can see what I mean about the registries being bloated. Doesn't really narrow things down until you add the brick factory, but then they already had it down to 40 houses. But it's a mistake to even assume the couch was bought by the same house as the offend…
> But it's a mistake to even assume the couch was bought by the same house as the offender.
It’s not a mistake, it’s a convenient assumption to make until it’s proven otherwise, especially when you have basically no other information to go on.
I have no doubt these investigators are intelligent enough to have considered that possibility.
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, I do not remember that because I've seen different things. There is a lot of different things going on, like perceived confidence. This is just myth. There is no woman out there who wants to live in fear.
It’s not a myth. What convinced you that there is a myth?? Almost everyone seems to agree it’s a real thing from what I see online. I recommend you watch this video by YouTube channel @Elephantintheroom https://youtu.be/Gvj8hG2UvbA?si=qz_7aC4jYq2CBfJl Apparently it’s much worse than what we see around us. Women literally fall in love with monsters.
Please don't treat half of the people on this planet as if they were some alien species. Treat people like people.
Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
#277I wonder if the GeoGuesser guy has ever been reached out to by LE.
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#278This is awesome - but they shouldn't have revealed the secret on how they caught them.. like 1000's of other offenders could land up making similar mistakes. It just makes sense to keep your mouth shut and keep on hunting.
This is a common dilemma in intelligence. One of the most famous examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_telegram
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#279Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are constitutionally entitled to a jury trial for any criminal charge in the US under the Sixth Amendment.
Thanks. I’d imagine it would be cost prohibitive to take a peeing in the bushes charge to jury trial though? Sounds like the sort of thing one would only do if they were aiming to set a precedent for some reason?
The US judicial system LOVES to overcharge as a means to forcing a plea (and avoiding the cost/time of full trial).
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#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think you understood, we weren't understaffed, that's besides the point as it's not hard to reply to an email. The main aspect is you should demand a warrant because you as someone that works for a private company shouldn't be the arbitrar of if a cop has enough or not (plus the cop will obviously not give you any details besides ongoing investigation in most cases). There's a job for that which is a judge. I…
> we Ah ok, never mind me then. I've in FBs position and I'm happy to report that we had a very well oiled process to deal with pederasts and assisted LE in putting a couple of them - also in the US and Canada - behind bars. That's one of the reason I knew that officer that I mentioned above. These people need all the help they can get, their departments are overworked and understaffed. Investigations are often a bit…
Mate I never worked at Facebook what are you on about. Sure if you're looking at evidence of a crime you don't need to wait for a warrant you can proactively reach out. That is not what I was talking about.