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pegothejerk t1_is6nnua wrote

His scam in short:

> According to a sentencing memorandum, Bryan Wilson used his law enforcement access to Accurint, a powerful data-combing software used by police departments to assist in investigations, to obtain information about potential victims. He would then share that information with a hacker, who would hack into private Snapchat accounts to obtain sexually explicit photos and videos.

> If sexually explicit material was obtained, Wilson would then contact the women, threatening to post the photos and videos online and share them with their friends, family, employer and co-workers unless more sexually explicit material was provided to him

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BazilBroketail t1_is6r62w wrote

Yeah, title doesn't do it justice. It was blackmail, not just some dude looking at nudes.

Edit: wanted to ad I don't think him looking a people's private pictures is ok. It's just, more fucked up than the title.

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PGDW t1_is7fnlp wrote

Way more, way way more. That's the sort of thing that leads to even worse stuff, and girls have killed themselves over it.

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vindictivemonarch t1_is9t1ub wrote

me: yea this guy's right. who tf published this shit?

checks site

"LEOweekly"

jesus fucking christ, guess the pig-nazi unions werent enough

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DrNonathon t1_isab1zt wrote

LEO is a local publication which stands for Louisville Eccentric Observer, not law enforcement officer.

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Suspicious-Factor466 t1_is7enj3 wrote

This kinda stuff is so fucked up. I hope gets like 15 years.

I take it back, 100 years lol.

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thederpofwar321 t1_is7kj7b wrote

Per count hopefully. Punishments for clear morale violations like this need to be harsher for cops.

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PtrWalnuts t1_isae688 wrote

Harsher for cops? Ha ha ha ha that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all day.

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crank1000 t1_is8uhb3 wrote

We’re all gonna just gloss over the fact that this Accurint company has and is sharing with LE access to people’s private social media accounts?

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phatcrits t1_is9choj wrote

It’s not just LE. I used to use this about 10 years ago in a loss prevention job. It cost about $0.50 per search.

The vast majority of information was just scraped from Facebook and other social medias, just presented in an easy way. I don’t think it was able to get anything that wasn’t already public.

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psykick32 t1_is9yvyp wrote

Just another reason to lock your shit down.

Or better yet... Don't post anything like that on Social media at all.

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mercer1235 t1_is8ms2y wrote

Pet Sounds was great, but this is just too far.

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AvoidingCares t1_is982hd wrote

>to obtain information about potential victims.

That wording almost makes it seem like he was using it for its intended purpose. They're just his potential victims.

Though it's intended purpose still raises some serious questions about what law enforcement should be allowed to have and use.

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heisenbugtastic t1_is87qw4 wrote

Good it's federal charges, bad the first city is Louisville. I hope for a change of venue.

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tfresca t1_isa7wmt wrote

Dude there is so much porn in the world. He decided to committ felonies to get more? Likely poor quality at that. He got off on making women do it.

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