Caught me off guard with that one. This doesn't feel very choosey. Does that make sense?
Wickr, Amazon’s encrypted chat app, has a child sex abuse problem — and little is being done to stop it
[Wickr? Wicca, wicked?]
Court records show that Wickr Me has become part of a toolkit used by people who exploit children. Law enforcement and child abuse experts say it's not taking basic safety measures.
June 10, 2022, 10:03 AM EDT
Wickr Me, an encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon Web Services, has become a go-to destination for people to exchange images of child sexual abuse, according to court documents, online communities, law enforcement and anti-exploitation activists.
It’s not the only tech platform that needs to crack down on such illegal content, according to data gathered by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, or NCMEC. But Amazon is doing comparatively little to proactively address the problem,experts and law enforcement officials say, attracting people who want to trade such material because there is less risk of detection than in the brighter corners of the internet.
NBC News reviewed court documents from 72 state and federal child sexual abuse or child pornography prosecutions where the defendant allegedly used Wickr (as it’s commonly known) from the last five years in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, using a combination of private and public legal and news databases and search engines. Nearly every prosecution reviewed has resulted in a conviction aside from those still being adjudicated. Almost none of the criminal complaints reviewed note cooperation from Wickr itself at the time of filing, aside from limited instances where Wickr was legally compelled to provide information via a search warrant. Over 25 percent of the prosecutions stemmed from undercover operations conducted by law enforcement on Wickr and other tech platforms.
These court cases only represent a small fraction of the problem, according to two law enforcement officers involved in investigating child exploitation cases, two experts studying child exploitation and two people who have seen firsthand how individuals frequently use Wickr and other platforms for criminal transactions on the dark web. They point to direct knowledge of child exploitation investigations and sting operations, interviews with victims and perpetrators of abuse, and interactions with individuals soliciting child sexual abuse material as evidence that Wickr is being used by many people who exploit children…
Wickr’s origins
Wickr was founded in 2012 by a security-minded group of entrepreneurs includingNico Sell,an organizer of the hacker convention Defcon. The app applied encryption typically used by defense officials to personal messaging, stripping messages of any identifiable metadata, and giving users the option to sign up anonymously and have their messages self-delete.
By 2015, the company had raised $39 million in funding, seizing on a public just beginning to gain interest in data privacy. Sell, who did not respond to a request for comment, sold the company as staunchly pro-privacy, claiming early on that she had refused to give the FBI a backdoor into the platform. That same year, news reports started to trickle in about how the app was being used to commit crimes.
The first report from Australia’s Herald Sun said thatCraiglist drug dealerswere instructing interested parties to contact them on Wickr. Numerous outlets also reported in 2015 that theIslamic State terrorist group was using Wickr to recruit fighters.
moar (long artice) @ https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/wickr-amazon-aws-child-messaging-app-sex-abuse-problem-rcna20674
New York Times indistinguishable from the most sordid tabloid of the past.
For so many people NYTimes is "their master's voice"
? They claim it's "intelligent" "what the intelligent people read"
They'll be sued too
Maybe the feeding of info to NYTimes by Comey for their "wrap - up smear" will be part of the lawsuit from Trump Comey faces.
hey genius, why should i even know who the fuck tim pool is? please elucidate
https://archive.org/details/gloryofbyzantium0000unse/mode/1up?view=theater
https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%2Agypt%29%20AND%20date%3A%5B1830-01-01%20TO%201945-01-31%5D
good, but I had the red text despair fag in mind
>end with yall
Who paid for your class on how to sound like someone you're not?
Bud's fish & chips?
Try again cringe shill
Wow, the state of the shills in 2022
The best thing to come out of the entire thing
Patriots point - we will follow. -Q
Due to a lack of transparency on the part of current and former board administrations as well as 8kun admin, there has been a lot of doubt among many anons as to the legitimacy of the recent Q posts made over the past 10 days. As a result, I've created a /qresearch/ board on the new 4chan imageboard clone called Frens Chan, in the hopes that Q will be able to either verify or disavow any new posts made under their tripcode. Tripcodes are enabled on the Frens Chan /qresearch/ board.
Those of you who don't trust 8kun are welcome to join /qresearch/ on Frens Chan.
Even if Q is unable to verify themselves until President Trump returns to the White House, I will maintain /qresearch/ on Frens Chan until Q returns (here, there, or anywhere else).
https://www.frenschan.org/qresearch/
https://www.frenschan.org/qresearch/
https://www.frenschan.org/qresearch/
>inb4 Frens Chan "groomed" the Buffalo shooter aka "Frensgate"
Frens Chan, like 4chan and 8chan/8kun or any other anonymous imageboard, is not responsible for the posts of any of its users on their site or elsewhere (Discord, telegram etc). They've addressed concerns in this archived thread here: https://www.frenschan.org/z/res/171.html
Remember, MSM tried to use the Christchurch shooting to take down 8chan. This is nothing new.
My one caveat to anons who are used to 8kun is that Frens Chan does not hash IPs so you will have to use a VPN. Unlike 4chan, Frens Chan does not block VPNs.
Those of you who don't know how to protect their own privacy, who are ok with Jim's actions in recent weeks, and have no problem with the state of the board, are welcome to stay here. Anyone else, is welcome to come to /qresearch/ on Frens Chan.
Please read through this thread for more information:
https://www.frenschan.org/qresearch/res/11.html
https://www.frenschan.org/qresearch/res/11.html
https://www.frenschan.org/qresearch/res/11.html
I am happy to answer questions in the meta or general thread on the new board and will be reposting this periodically here to inform anons and Q.
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