• DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    She’s obviously a monster.

    However:

    Authorities were notified by Snapchat itself after the company flagged the message as possibly illegal, and FBI agents contacted Stapp at her home just 10 days after the message was sent.

    Most shocking part of the story?

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      2 days ago

      What about this is shocking? That unencrypted messages are read by governments? That it took them 10 days to follow up? That people will use snapchat?

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        For me it’s 10 days. I expect some automated monitoring with unencrypted messaging services. But automated things should work more or less immediately.
        I wonder what went on for the 10 days. Was most of it waiting for manual review, FBI taking the time with… something, whatever else.

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          Investigation. Snapchat flags it, someone reviews it and sends it to the FBI. The FBI sees it, reviews it, and gets all their ducks in a row to build a case and present an arrest warrant to get signed by a judge. Then they schedule a time and place to find her and actually perform the arrest.

          10 days for that is quick. It’s not like Snapchat’s filter flags it and sends it right to an arresting agent.

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          You ever contact the police? They aren’t there to stop crime. They are there to take a report after the crime has been committed. If there were welfare queen CEOs involved, the swat team would have arrived within 5 minutes. But this incident didn’t involve “real” people.

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            22 hours ago

            My SO is a therapist with a client who’s being stalked by a severely mentally ill man. Her children are being stalked. I’m like - yes, police reports and whatnot, but they all need to have guns at this point, because the police aren’t going to stop it, and this guy is determined.

            They are going to arm themselves.

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                  16 hours ago

                  Does it? I wouldnt want MY THERAPIST telling my shit to others but only leaving out my name.

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                The client knew of me, that I have been stalked and gay bashed, and asked my husband to get my take. Therapists are allowed to share relevant details about their own lives if it’s helpful, it’s unusual for clients to follow up on them tho. I don’t have their name, just their situation, which is vague enough to share here.

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                  So not only is your SO talking about you and youre past but they’re sharing their patients info with you? No no thats not how that should work. You or your SO could be lieing and leading people into giving out info they shouldnt.

                  I meam fuck youre posting on here describing their situation. Your SO should be fired.

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          So, 10 day…if it were me…flag the account review her other connections get her phone records review DMs with other members. Access all connected devices associated with her phone, fb, Google, other socials. She’s basically a node and if she’s doing this shit on social media all of it is traceable. 10 days actually likely means she was acting alone and NOT part of a larger network but it took ten days to confirm it.

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          It’s pretty expected at this point. Snapchat was found early on to be keeping all of the photos people took for legal coverage. Only makes sense they’d have tool to automatically flag and review that content.

          If you’re not using a service whose entire focus is security and privacy (I would consider Snapchat to be more of a social platform, even though they advertise differently), assume you are always being watched.

          It’s not the fault of the user they’re being watched, but something we should be aware of.

          All that said, glad she was caught. Fuck her.

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      2 days ago

      Having unencrypted messages and automated flagging of specific stuff can actually be a good thing.

      In the fight for privacy I do realize kids can be in danger and a decent solution is to keep them on monitored platforms.

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    My bet is she never planned to do it because she said “half now half later” and it’s just one of those scams where you Venmo her the money and she blocks you. However, that scam is usually “safer” to do when you don’t actually have a child.