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A comment on Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online.

Re:Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail... by hprotagonist on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:20PM (#20566964)
A fine example of why the push for encryption backdoors is wrong-footed: we can reliably trust people to be idiots online, regardless of intent or skill level.

good opsec is hard; middling opsec is reasonably easy; "not bragging about your mad sploits on twitter" is nothing we can trust humans to reasonably do, apparently!

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Re:Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail... by tareqak on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @02:47PM (#20567903)
I agree: there is no such thing as "the perfect crime" and the use of end-to-end encryption does not make it so. What there is a however is a lack of good, old-fashioned police-work in criminal cases where the police run up against end-to-end encryption.
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