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[–] Bonifratz@piefed.zip 68 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Here's a sobering thought: You think all these predators suddenly stopped trafficking and raping girls once Epstein was dead? This shit is still happening in other dark places more likely than not.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 9 points 5 days ago

The Franklin incident happened in the 80s and may be the precursor to Epstein. It's very similar, never resolved and the cover up ended with a dosen "suicides" and "found shot in the head"s, a plane crash that killed the lead investigator and his son, and victim Alisha Owens in prison for 15 years for perjury because she refused to recant.

Also Epstein's xbox account has been active since he died but before it leaked. Kids play xbox. I haven't seen login locations just times but certainly an interesting lead for someone

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Some of the victims say they have been to at least 3 different islands. It is much bigger than Epstein.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 6 points 5 days ago

And it wasn't just islands. He had the girls on palm beach in Florida, there's tons of evidence of that. Seems he used his NY home the same way. Probably why both were wired with cameras like the little saint james island.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago

I've thought of this. Trump is in a perfect position to steal young girls from one of his Concentration Camps, and nobody knows more about Epstein's operation than him.

We can't count on him being too moral to operate such a business, and he finds any avarice too tempting to resist, and he doesn't have the impulse control to resist anyway.

And on top of it, he thinks he's immune from prosecution for it. He could literally run TV ads to fuck 12 year olds, and nothing would happen to him, or at least he thinks so.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump is working on exploiting that business opportunity right now.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And surely they've learned to use more secure communication methods, so the likelihood of there ever being more files like this are slim.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That may be true, but governments' and agencies spying apparatus have become infinitely more advanced.

If we could elect people who actually care for the law, justice and children we could clean up the FBI / CIA and cripple the pedophile network.

But step one is literarily NOT electing fucking child rapists.... But apparently that's too hard for Americans

Fuck Trump, this entire pedophile administration and any piece of shit that voted for this pile of human garbage

[–] stressballs@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

All of our current forms of consumer encryption will be broken within 30 years.

[–] stressballs@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

They've learned to have confidence in their current choice of encryption and storage. Their arrogance is always their downfall.