RE: FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images
January 23, 2016 at 12:08 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2016 at 12:08 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 22, 2016 at 10:30 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(January 22, 2016 at 6:55 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: You'll need to demonstrate that your comparison is apt. Simply shutting down the website doesn't necessarily preclude arrests.
Additionally, the absence of any reporting on international arrests in that article implies that there are few if any to report.
It wouldn't be the FBI's responsibility to arrest people abroad, that would be put upon interpol and the law enforcement from other countries.
Thanks, Captain Obvious. My point is that given the absence of reports of arrests abroad -- by whatever agency -- you can't reasonably say that 137 arrests aren't all that there are. If you want to build an argument about the efficacy of this operation, you'll have to present better numbers. And you'll have to avoid relying on suppositions. You wrote:
Quote:Well exactly, you don't know one way or the other about the other arrests or the percentage of the overall users of the website that were in America so the percentage you established as a success rate is void.
The success rate that I have quoted is supported by the numbers we have at hand. The success rate you wish to use in justifying this operation has no support in the data, by your own admission.
(January 22, 2016 at 10:30 pm)paulpablo Wrote:Quote: the FBI infected the sites with software that punctured that security, allowing agents to identify hundreds of users.
To me it seems logical that if the FBI simply shut down the website that would mean they wouldn't have been able to infect the website, and identify it's users.
Obviously not the case. They could shut down the site, and at the same time redirect anyone trying to browse it to a page which infects their computer without delivering kiddie porn. This isn't rocket surgery.
