• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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          Yeah, and the FBI has been doing that for at least 7 years now, to catch some pretty disgusting criminals

          The outrage…

          • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.social
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            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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              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.

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

            • 0ddysseus@lemmy.world
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              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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        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

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          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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          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.

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