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US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] psmgx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Timing attacks work, but if they're running those then they have a pretty good idea as to both sides of the convo.

Put another way, if they've got to that point your opsec has already failed.

[โ€“] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well without that they would've needed probably months correlating things like "goes to bed at X o clock" with those chat logs. For a whole neighbourhood to then get a search warrant with that. Which of course is not above the capabilities of a state actor but depending on how big a fish he was they might not have bothered spending the resources. Being able to pin-point a house in maybe a day when all you have is a municipality is a whole different ballpark.