Remember when the NYT published a high-res, straight-on photo of the TSA luggage master key? Good times.

It's not like you can't find them on Amazon for cheap. There's also more than one master key it's a whole set. That said, when the lock picking lawyer bought a bunch of TSA locks, they all used master key #7 I think.

Eh. Wasn’t a big deal honestly.

It takes little effort to reproduce the key by disassembling the lock to get access to the plug.

I assume the original was a lot higher resolution, else that stinks of parallel reconstruction.

The article also mentioned the whole platform he was using was cracked by police. They might have been able to get the metadata but not want to explain that to others still using that platform.

The BBC made a good podcast about the busting of Enchrochat.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001v9ds

Possibly/probably only available to UK IP addresses.

I think most audio-only BBC programmes are available globally, even if they sometimes have ads inserted into them which aren't present if you're in the UK.

Plays fine in France.

Here's a direct podcast URL you can add via your favorite podcast app:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/gangster/id1562843329

The ads under that article are about as funny as the article itself. Lots of hilariously bad AI generated images and stuff

You don't run an adblocker?

Clearly they don’t.

Maybe his comment is an opsec deflection strategy.

I don't buy that they got his fingerprints and palm prints from that photo.

Why not? Seems like a pretty clear shot of three of his fingers and a good partial print of his thumb. I assume the original was higher resolution than the version in the article.

The CCC made a point a couple years ago by publishing finger prints of high ranking German government officials extracted from photos

I think they went even further and 3d printed their thumbprint and unlocked their phone with it, if I remember correctly.

Just change your thumbprint after a leak, no problem.

A dedicated criminal wouldn’t have fingerprints.

Fingerprint tech is ridiculously advanced. I saw a documentary where they lifted a print off a pillow case decades later.

I did fingerprints from a digital photo in 2012 maybe earlier. Old mate was holding up drugs to be photographed. Bit of contrast, blew it up, sent it to fingerprint bureau and what would you know, we had those prints on file. Not the crime of the century and not absolute proof, but a damn good start for a case from a simple post on socials. More useful than most intel/hearsay that ends up in crimestoppers or similar channels.

No longer a friend?

"Old mate" is an Australian/NZ colloquial term for someone who you either don't know or don't want to name.