After serious thinking Anonymous wrote :
> In article <j2h32519u6bh6djplpaenslkqo2lg0539s@4ax.com>
> anon <anon@privacy.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 30 May 2009 01:21:30 +0200, Frank Merlott <Frank@has.no.email>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> PGP was not the cause of their problems. It was because one member
>>>> sold them out to try and save his skin. Apparently it did not work
>>>> because despite being treated leniently by the Australian LEA because
>>>> of his cooperation, he was then pursued by the American LEA, who
>>>> want/wanted to extradite him. Does anyone know if this was
>>>> successful?
>>>
>>> I never heard of such thing, and it strikes me as odd, why would the US
>>> extradite him and leave alone all of the other people?
>>
>> You've missed the point. The group member was busted for something
>> completely unrelated to the group. However in an attempt to reduce
>> his/her sentence he/she told LEA of the group. Apparently up until
>> then, they were unaware of the group's activities. After that, as
>> they then had access to the groups pgp keys, they could follow all
>> that went on. I have no idea whether they actually participated,
>> meaning posted themselves. Thus LEA are now present in both this
>> group and alt.privacy and probably many others.
>
> Duh.
>
> It is absurdly simple to track where pedos are posting and there are many
> ways. Perhaps the easiest and most thorough is to set up a full-feed news
> server and script searches for various keywords - if I'm smart enough to do
> it chances are LEA has been doing it for years.
Mmmm...I do not see alt.binaries.triaxer.encrypted on your list, may it
be because you cant see inside encrypted files?
Yes I thought so. While Joe Doe will obviously be arrested, people
using encryption and using common sense will not.
I think LEA needs a different approach to the problem.
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