• @atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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          21 year ago

          Yeah, and the FBI has been doing that for at least 7 years now, to catch some pretty disgusting criminals

          The outrage…

          • Lexi Sneptaur
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            1 year ago

            The outrage comes from the fact that the FBI had to literally distribute that kind of content in order to catch people, and it kind of borders on entrapment.

            I don’t have any sympathy for these predators. I’m glad they got locked away. I just think the FBI is using unconstitutional means to do so

            • @atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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              81 year ago

              That’s not my understanding of “entrapment”. It needs to coerce somebody into something they otherwise would not do.

              “Making available” illicit material is not coercive.

              • Lexi Sneptaur
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                41 year ago

                If I remember correctly, it was brought up in court but dismissed. So you’re right there.

                • @DudeDudenson
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                  01 year ago

                  Is the FBI gonna start giving away cocaine to try and catch dealers too?

            • @0ddysseus@lemmy.world
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              -41 year ago

              Nah fuck that.

              Number 1 - the world exists outside the USA and a lot of those fuckers live there.

              And Number 2 - kiddie fiddlers don’t get rights and if you can get them through entrapment the its just as good as any other means.

      • @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        How you think they got Silk Road?

        The only time I used TOR mode in Brave was to do download some obscure old 32 bit iPhone IPA games which was an onion link

        • @ninchuka@lemmy.one
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          31 year ago

          didnt the silk road guy use his IRL name for it somewhere and was bragging about it in someway, I remember reading that he didnt have any opsec at all

        • @jimbo@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          They’ve gotten a number of people operating Tor sites through things like tracing crypto transactions and web hosting mistakes. One example I heard was a site that was hosted in Tor, but the images were hosted on a home server straight over the internet instead of through Tor.

      • @Rooki@lemmy.world
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        -31 year ago

        If someone has a Microsoft defender HE IS the honeypot. MD can just hook into that browser and track them.