• sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    How can they not get more than 1400 suspects? Don’t they have payment information, IP addresses, and more PII on some of these people? Surely 99.9% of pedos don’t have flawless opsec

    • KhanCipher [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      3 days ago

      How can they not get more than 1400 suspects?

      The reality is that even if we go full idealistic true believers that think that the system works as it’s described and intended (assuming the US justice system), the whole justice system really doesn’t have the resources to go after every single person, and would rather go after those that they can be sure the charges would actually stick.

      It’s kinda the same way with where if every single person accused of any crime refused to take a plea deal, and went to trial, the entire system would be bogged down to the point of being non-functional.

      Don’t they have payment information, IP addresses

      Payment info could easily be stolen cards. As for IP addresses, those can easily get semi regularly rotated around, and I highly doubt ISPs are in the business of keeping a history of who had what IP at certain dates.

    • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 days ago

      Hopefully this is just the tip of the spear, and there are plans for a long-term operation to match account names to perpetrators using the info they now have access to.