CSAM suspect jailed for close to 10 years

This article starts out by saying:

The uncommon end-to-end encrypted platform Wire has become a topic of conversation after a “trusted physician and family man” was jailed for almost a decade.

Khursheed Haider, 50, of Roseville, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for the distribution of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM).

Haider, a pulmonologist by trade, used the messaging platform, Wire, to post, distribute, and ask for video and images of minor boys and girls being sexually abused, the Department of Justice said.

Skipping some, the article continues:

Cybercriminals, drug traffickers, illegal arms salespeople, and child abusers tend to gravitate to end-to-end encrypted platforms to carry out their nefarious activities.

Historically, Telegram has been used by criminals due to its seemingly secure messaging capabilities. This alone landed Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov, a stint in a French prison.

The charges against the CEO included suspected complicity in running an online platform that allows illicit transactions, images of child sex abuse, drug trafficking, and fraud, as well as the refusal to communicate information to authorities, money laundering, and providing cryptographic services to criminals.

As for Telegram, TSB covered this when this broke, and its isn’t because the product used end-to-end encryption, it was used to allow people to exchange CSAM and do other criminal activities on the platform even when contacted to say that certain accounts were doing whatever the complaint was saying.

If I remember this part, they have a minimal amount of staff and at least 8 to 10 billion (or was it million) users. While that’s a problem, staff were contacted, and everyone turned a blind eye.

What’s concerning about end-to-end encryption is that it’s complicated for law enforcement to decrypt messages. In fact, it’s almost entirely impossible to do so.

No fucking shit! Its hard for anyone to decrypt, not just law enforcement. If it was not end-to-end encruypted, or a different cypher was used, it would be easier and it would be just like no encryption at all. Encryption is meant to make it difficult for people to snoope at traffic, including whatever criminals may or may not be doing.

While end-to-end encrypted platforms aren’t designed for criminals, they do hinder law enforcement from bringing criminals to justice.

Well, I can see this side of the story, but which way do we want it? A backdoor is just as bad as being not encrypted, and we’ve faught for years that we don’t want backdoors within our software.

I believe i recently saw a video by Nick Espinosa that is titled something to the effect of mobile phones not being secure in some years, but i forget the exact title.

The article continues:

A survey from the Internet Watch Foundation reveals that 92% of UK adults are concerned about the proliferation of child sexual abuse materials on end-to-end encrypted platforms.

Despite these apparent concerns, end-to-end encrypted platforms are gaining popularity, and more people are using them for illicit purposes.

What’s concerning in regard to Haider’s case is the use of Wire to distribute and request child pornography.

This definitely makes this suspects case harder, but they can do the next best thing and that is to go after the suspect’s devices if there is evidence he’s even doing anything illegal.

The article does ask “What is wire?” It is the final portion of the article.

The full article can be read by going to Slack-like platform used to share child abuse materials where you can read the entire thing.

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