Date: May 13th, 2020 12:37 PM Author: hairraiser cruise ship
My guess is home NAS setup. If he used something like Amazon Glacier it would still be expensive and I'd assume someone so into CP would be concerned that some of the images would signature to known CP and get flagged when uploaded. I'm not sure if Amazon, Google, etc. actually scan/screen that way, but I wouldn't be shocked if they did and no one in the CP trade is going to risk that shit.
It's pretty bad PR if your platform becomes known as a place for pervs to trade CP.
Also it's not a terribly computationally expensive process. They get supplied a DB of hashes of known CP files. All they have to do is hash the files on their own service and see if any of them match.
Date: May 14th, 2020 1:39 AM Author: fluffy cerebral stead coldplay fan
I was admittedly having old-fashioned thinking about DMCA storage safe harbor provisions and whether they could get pwnt for hosting infringing copyrighted material since they obviously have the means to police it if they're policing CP
he's probably not using all of it but needs it for entree into the CP world.
so, eg, if he's into something specific like 7 yo russian girls it's still very worthwhile for him to collect 12 yo haitian boy cp because all of the elite cp circles operate on reciprocity.
so most of it was probably more currency than personal use.
its just the best way to get new product while ensuring the people youre dealing with are legit.
i have some knowledge of what is probably the biggest CP investigation of all time. Were talking about years and the involvement of everyone from FBI/NSA/CIA to Interpol to agencies in other countries, etc.
Nobody could get into the internet board. They had enough opsec in place that it was too hard to fake it. The board/ring revolved around people providing their own supply. If someone stopped uploading they were out.
Eventually law enforcement got access by other means than trying to get in the front door with an agent....and engaged in what i believe was legally and ethically questionable actions of sticking around for years, uploading and downloading CP.
In the end the case was wrapped up with the majority of players still unknown. Opsec was too good and the head guy literally posted elsewhere on the internet that nobody could touch him even though they infiltrated the group and were exchanging CP with him for years. and he turned out to be right. case closed and he was free bc we the people werent even close on him
Date: May 13th, 2020 1:06 PM Author: olive cumskin menage
yeah this has got to be like when some kid gets caught with weed brownies and they charge him for possession of THC equal to the weight of the brownies.
LJL at people on XO just immediately believing something published by the fraud media. The 58TB figure is just the raw drive capacity that the cops seized, not the actual quantity of CP.
This press release was issued the same morning that they served the search warrant on the guy. That's obviously not enough time to do any sort of analysis at all on the drives. And note the verbiage used: "Several electronic devices were seized which contained approximately 58 Terabytes of data related to child pornography"