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[โ€“] ours@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Likely, data may have been encrypted but he may have leaked compromising metadata. Even more likely it was bad operation security linking a personal identity to his anonymous persona.

I'm always thankful for incompetent criminals.

[โ€“] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

Thankfully it seems pretty unrealistic that someone addicted to CSAM would maintain perfect OpSec over a lifetime of abuse.