US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps
US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps
Encryption alone won't save you from the feds.
This whole thing is horrifying, but the last paragraph is especially disturbing:
Since Herrera himself has a young daughter, and since there are "six children living within his fourplex alone" on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, the government has asked a judge not to release Herrera on bail before his trial.
Even more disturbing is it said he was also producing content.
The Ars article seems to suggest that they were able to crack his phones pretty easily, which is a bit scary. I don't see anything about a computer.
Although it doesn't appear he was actually using any encryption apps to store material; rather, he used a fake calculator app as password protection. Obviously not the brightest bulb in the drawer.
When my mother got breast cancer, my Facebook page suddenly filled up with ads for laetrile and quack clinics across the border in Mexico. Even though I know better, I might have grasped at straws had it come to that. Thankfully it didn't, but I love my mother and Facebook was happy to sell that vulnerability to advertisers.
And the thing is, I had never posted about it. My two sisters had used the chat feature to discuss it, and FB made the connection.
That was the moment that privacy and encryption became important to me. Most encryption services have probably been infiltrated by the feds to some degree, and I can live with that. It's the corporations I want to hide from.
It is also because of people like him that laws like Going Dark become plausible to the eyes of the politicians and the masses
the fool! you can't use ROT-104 encryption against 4 cores!
It's all publicly approved backdoors until feds are planting child abuse imagery on your PC because you spoke out against them in the wring venue. No one will believe you when they do. Currently you can't trust articles like this, maybe the dude was actually hurting kids. Maybe the feds just needed a win. You won't ever know, and neither will I so long as the same ideology is in control. Now watch them turn every single kid in the pics into a sex offender because the fed believes if you were raped, you WILL rape someone in the future. But by all means keep enjoying their rage bait.