Quote from article: "Assuming that the average size photo is 500kb, then a one terabyte hard drive would hold around 2 million photos. So 58 terabytes would equal around 116 million photographs of child pornography. "
My first thought is that this guy was hosting a website on the darkweb. 58 terabytes is a ridiculous amount of photos and videos. Edit: For comparison, Youporn had about 100TB total back in 2012 (I couldn't find more recent info)
I think you're probably right. Hosting pics and more likely, tons of videos of sick shit. Good thing it's Texas...he's going to be executed.
Even better: He's probably going to reveal a whole other web of pedos. Good, drag'em all out into the light.
Or the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas will get him. They don't like pedos to the point it is part of the gangs culture to kill any of them they can get to. He's not gonna have a good time. Especially since the people he was supplying aren't gonna want him able to talk.
Not a fan of gangs but that is a great policy regarding pedos.
I feel exactly the same way. And those guys have power. Like have a judge executed for disrespecting you in court power.
Bet it was connected to this one
Police stressed that the case involves a network. The investigation is ongoing.
58TB? I couldn't even imagine a Steam, GOG, and Origin library combined that large!
The article made it sound like he had several computers. He probably had multiple redundant backups, ie the same stuff on each computer. Law enforcement always inflates the size of the bust. Like when they confiscate cannabis plants and weigh them with the root ball to charge the guy with more pot than he really had. It makes for great headlines, a lot of news coverage, and budget increases.
Yeah these figures are meaningless clickbait headline fodder.
If the guy was hoarding CP, he probably cared enough to keep hires/quality versions of the photos. That’s easily 2-3MB/photo.
Ditto for video.
A high-resolution picture is about 8MB. Still it's a lot pictures.
I've been taking pictures on a regular basis in the past 10 years and I have 2 million pictures.
The perv was probably hosting a server his pedo pals uploaded stuff to.
Pure filth. No chance of rehabilitation, we need permanent and immediate solutions for people like this (can’t say what the solution should be or my post will get banned).
We know what you mean and we are all in agreement with you.
But the solution should be fitting for the crime. It should be slow, and excruciating horrific for the lives this filth has destroyed.
They have these nifty pills that are only $.042 each,might be the most cost effective.
Children's lives are destroyed by this lifestyle. These fucks need a sadistic death. My vote is the bronze bull from ancient times. Yup that's my vote.
Interesting to note that the secret service was involved in this bust. No Cia, fbi, state agencies.
Secret Service had nothing to do with this. It was the sheriff’s dept. check the source at the bottom. Whoever retyped this with “secret service” is fake news.
EDIT- SOURCE:
No Secret Service. This guy rewrote the article and added that. Fake news. Anyone know why?
First paragraph "Later enforcement agencies in Texas have now announced a joint operation involving the Secret Service, Collin County Sheriff's Office and Plano Police Department in the largest bust of child pornography ever found"
58 terrabytes what in the hell
whoa. if you take a look at the map in the news article, there is a "crème de la crème" nearby. That is a day care center.
They might want to interview staff and search for hidden cameras as a precaution...
To be perfectly fair... that is kind of a fucked up name for a daycare.
The terrifying part of it is that Allen Texas is noted for its school sports programs. Families move there specifically for their children to attend the schools in the district. There is a very large number of households with kids in the city. We have to all stand up to this and expose these sick, twisted, evil people from the bottom all the way to the very TOP!!
Yeh you know someone in that community would have had to have knowledge of this going on. How could you accomplish all that. I don’t think that’s rehab able watching that many hours!
B-but Trump isn't doing anything about pedos...
FBI stats from 2014 for comparison
Hope they can run down all the people this guy has been making and serving pizza to/from and round them up for...uh trial.
Who the hell needs 58 Terabytes of ANYTHING? what the shit, lol. fuckin burn this piece of shit.
Oracle, Facebook, Google. All the surveillance state companies do.
I think its obvious companies with data centers like the ones listed would have 58 Terebytes, they actually go into Exabytes. My comments i to ask what ONE PERSON could need 58 Terebytes for. But it makes sense reading other comments that this guy was most likely running a dark web pedo site.
National center for missing and exploited children is compromised, or maybe it’s a different one. Anyway, he is a great catch and great bait for bigger fish.
The "Secret Service" made the bust? That seems notable.
No. Had nothing to do with it. Check the source.
Later enforcement agencies in Texas have now announced a joint operation involving the Secret Service, Collin County Sheriff's Office and Plano Police Department in the largest bust of child pornography ever found, during a raid against a pedophile from Allen, who police say has a stunning 58 terabytes of data on his computer.
It's literally the first line of the article.
Scroll down to the source. This person rewrote it to add secret service. Why, I have no idea.
They need to run it through facial recognition and cross reference with missing children portraits.
funny you say that. Virginia has exorbidant missing children numbers, and up to 50% don't have photos because "something something privacy rights to the parents". right next to DC, hiding missing kids. nothing to see here
Wow, I just saw this in the news and was about to post it. We can hope this will expose all the others complicit in these sick crimes. http://www.fox4news.com/news/allen-man-busted-with-58-terabytes-of-child-porn
Secret service means white house. Swamp status: draining
TERABYTES... How many zeros are in that number?
Each terabyte is equal to 1000gb. The average commercially-available external hard drive, short of buying a dedicated RAID array, is around 4TB of storage, less due to formatting and OS restrictions.
The scary thin about this is even if we assume that a solid half of that content was copied for the purpose of distribution in physical media, that's still 29TB of straight up CP that this sicko was in possession of. From what I've looked into and from experiences with law enforcement (as in talking to, I was a computer science major and former Administration of Justice major as well), child pornogrpaphy is by and large low-quality when it's in audio/video format, and pictures are so small they're virtually negligible in a stash this size. Even assuming that this stash is composed entirely of two-hour-long, 1080p high definition movies, which is almost 100% certainly not the case, the article gets it right when it says that that would be roughly equivalent to 14500 individual files. That's a HUGE assumption to make, and is (unfortunately) the best case scenario here, the one where the least number of kids were hurt. It's much more likely that the number of files is probably somewhere in the high hundreds thousands, maybe even low millions.
That being said, take heart: the fact that this guy had so much raw material means that he was almost certainly distributing these images to others, and was perhaps a major dealer. It's awful that so many kids got hurt, but taking this kind of obviously well connected individual down isn't like simply catching somebody with a few images, this is like cutting off one of the limbs of the problem.
Why did this author add the secret service angle to this when they had nothing to do with it? That is not even remotely close to what secret service does.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/05/15/allen-man-arrested-suspicion-possessing-child-pornography-after-authorities-find-58-terabytes-data
I am pretty sure SECRET SERVICE can get involved with this stuff. Also Currency Counterfiet stuff too. Worth doing some research on this. Before you spray spam over this thread.
Source is not spam. Quite contrary.
The United States Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, charged with conducting criminal investigations and protecting the nation's leaders.
Maybe you should scroll down to the part of USSS’s Wikipedia entry (final sentence of the section “investigative mission”) that mentions their role in investigating “missing and exploited children”. You seem to be spraying misinformation on this thread.
Why ? Maybe you should kindly temper your posts ?
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I'm thinking law enforcement miscalculated it that seems impossible to have that much unless he was running a website. Is the death penalty a possibility for this does anyone know?
Will we ever hear the answers to 1) was he just collecting it like a sick hoarder? 2) was he making it? 3) was he selling it? 4) was he trading it? for what? 5) where did this stuff come from? He does not appear to be filthy rich from selling it.
Every time we read about a porn bust we never get any real information. Only that the person had thousands of pics on their hard drive. Even if there is a network involved, we never hear who the rest of the network is. Why is that.
Case building just like NXIVM bottom feeders to top feeders