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Nope this is all from the compromise of Encrochat. There have been dozens of stories about the pseudonymous users of that service being linked back to real ide
by wp381640 5y ago
Nope this is all from the compromise of Encrochat.
There have been dozens of stories about the pseudonymous users of that service being linked back to real identities since the initial first large wave of arrests
Sometimes you don’t need crazy parallel construction theories - just a simple criminal network cracked because the participants believed it to be secure
- simonh 5y agoRight, it seems like he was discussing criminal activity on Encrochat, posted his fingerprints in the picture, and the Police must have had his prints on file from previous incidents. No rights violations required, not that such rights would apply in the UK anyway but that's a different issue.
- IshKebab 5y agoExcept that the photo they've shown is clearly way too low quality to get fingerprints. Presumably they actually used his palm (the article sort of mentions it), and they have a really small pool of people that they suspected so they could just manually compare his palm with known palm prints. I think that's fine though.
- avianlyric 5y agoI don’t know why you think the photo on the BBC is the original photo. It’s probably been re-compressed half a dozen times as it was passed between police to reporter to CMS to CDN.
- asddubs 5y agoit's not compression blurry though, it's out of focus
- gus_massa 5y agoIn this other source, the fingerprints of the thumb and the pinky are almost visible https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2021/may/liverpool-man-latest-to-be-jailed-as-part-of-national-operation-venetic/ https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2021/m... Anyway, the other fingers look too out of focus to detect anything.
- StavrosK 5y agoIt's not even out of focus, it's motion blur.
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- kordlessagain 5y ago> I don’t know why you think the photo on the BBC is the original photo Because people love to troll when it comes to pixels?
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoThe writing in the BBC article suggests "this photo", they refer to "the photo" and show a photograph. IMO that's bad journalism if it's not the original photo - how about 'the original photo, of which this is a lower quality copy, had enough detail for police to read fingerprint markers from, those markers were matched to the suspect [...]'. If it's not _the_ photo, then who knows, perhaps it's a fake the BBC produced or it's a stock photo. Why not state details about the pertinent evidence on which the whole story supposedly hangs.
- upofadown 5y agoIt's very possible the police blurred the fingerprints in the image they distributed.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoNot really, the cheese is also blurred. And not uniformly so, very gradual. It looks like a photographic artifact, not post-processing. I'm glad they were able to take this guy off the streets but there's a smell to this IMO and it's not just the cheese. Edit: Someone else shared the link to the uncropped picture: https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2021/may/liverpool-man-latest-to-be-jailed-as-part-of-national-operation-venetic/ https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2021/m... . Fingerprints are still too blurry but his palm lines are very clear. It could indeed be those.
- VMG 5y agoI'm extremely skeptical that usable fingerprints can be captured from any casual photo that is sent through a chat app The CCC in Germany did this once with a picture from Ursula von der Leyen, but IIRC they contacted the original photographer who provided an extremely hi-res image
- sixothree 5y agoI wouldn't quite describe parallel construction as a crazy theory given the amount data and metadata a person generates.