Re: The FBI's new tactic: Catching suspects with push alerts

From	Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
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Subject	Re: The FBI's new tactic: Catching suspects with push alerts
Message-ID	<fa5666f97c5b69b97a1a2e4eec20c703@dizum.com> (permalink)
Date	2024-03-11 11:45 +0100
Newsgroups	alt.comp.issues.privacy, alt.privacy, alt.privacy.anon-server
Organization	dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider

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Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:51:53 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
>said: 
>
>> Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/29/push-notification-surveillance-fbi/
>>>
>>> The alleged pedophile "LuvEmYoung" had worked to stay anonymous in
>>> the chatrooms where he bragged about sexually abusing children. A
>>> criminal affidavit said he covered his tracks by using TeleGuard, an
>>> encrypted Swiss messaging app, to share a video of himself last month
>>> with a sleeping 4-year-old boy.
>> 
>> The hard way to learn, that encryption doesn't implicate anonymity.
>
>Not only that, but it should also inspire significant skepticism with regard 
>to any provider's claims about generation and retention of any data that 
>could potentially identity you. Case in point: 

>4) Remember the lessons of history -- Hushmail made similar promises, and we 
>   all know how /that/ turned out -- 12 CDs of *decrypted* email turned over 
>   to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). 

Trust us, we're a Swiss company (as the Crypto AG once was).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG>

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