Deacon Busted For Storing Child Porn in Verizon Cloud

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Deacon Busted For Storing Child Porn in Verizon Cloud

Verizon Snoops in Files Resulting in Arrest

The Baltimore Sun (via Ars Technica) notes that Verizon contacted police after they noticed a Baltimore Deacon was quite happily storing his significant child pornography collection in the cloud.

The Deacon apparently thought it was a great idea to store this content in his Verizon Online Backup and Sharing account; Verizon noticed the content and contacted the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who in turn contacted law enforcement. 67-year-old William Steven Albaugh was released on $75,000 bond while the investigation continues.

Aside from the obvious discussion on disgusting child porn, priests, and stupidity -- the incident raises some obvious questions about just how extensively Verizon monitors cloud content.
 

JEDIYoda

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damn..you mean people who aren`t even catholic.....are into child porn....
 

BudAshes

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The only Deacon I've known was arrested for penetrating another man with a foreign object after the man had passed out from alcohol consumption and partying. One of the weirdest experiences of my life hearing them say his name and describe the charges on the radio during a news spot.
 

momeNt

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The only Deacon I've known was arrested for penetrating another man with a foreign object after the man had passed out from alcohol consumption and partying. One of the weirdest experiences of my life hearing them say his name and describe the charges on the radio during a news spot.

Well I'd like to add that the two deacons i've known, one catholic and one not, were both married with great children and led very normal lives.

I don't have extensive ties into the community, but what little connections I do have have not been crossed by a child abusing priest that has been outed. I can't speak about the ones that are successful at covering it up obviously.
 

PokerGuy

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I'm glad this scumbag got caught, I hope he goes to jail permanently so he doesn't get a chance to victimize anyone else.

That said, the real story here is the light it shines on cloud storage and the very different set of rules that govern it versus storing your data on your own computers. People don't realize that cloud storage isn't governed by the same set of legal standards/rules as personal storage. For example, having a government agency just rummage through your house might constitute illegal search, but having them rummage through data you've stored in the cloud might not.

This story also shows that providers (like verizon) look through your data and have complete access to whatever you store. In some cases that ends up being a good thing like this scum getting busted, but there is lots of potential for things to get misused.

It doesn't matter if it's facebook, twitter, skydrive, lockbox, verizon, icloud etc etc. If you don't want it falling into the wrong hands, don't put it online. Period.
 

shortylickens

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Man was not smart. Storing something like that on a cloud is just silly. Doesnt anyone see how the fed keeps giving themselves power with regards to warrant-less searches and taps?
 

sm625

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All that crap is monitored. They might report the kiddie porn but they aint gonna report any of your secret plans, drawings, patent proposals, or anything you might have that might be worth some money. Hell no, they will just copy it and sell it, just like big brother does. It all gets funneled into wall street so they can use it to make the top 0.1% even richer. But dont you worry, you stupid sheeple. If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about. No, its more like "if you have no ideas of value you have nothing to worry about". And of course most of these corporatism worshipping fools dont have any ideas worth two ounces of piss. They just love licking jack boot.
 

waggy

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Man was not smart. Storing something like that on a cloud is just silly. Doesnt anyone see how the fed keeps giving themselves power with regards to warrant-less searches and taps?

agreed. anyone stupid enough to do such a thing deserves it.

the sad part is people think things like the cloud are PRIVATE. sorry no they are not. do not store anything illegal on it.
 

Matt1970

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I am sure in the Terms Of Use you are giving them the right to look through your stuff at any given time.
 

ShawnD1

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Aside from the obvious discussion on disgusting child porn, priests, and stupidity -- the incident raises some obvious questions about just how extensively Verizon monitors cloud content.
Indeed. This means that they're watching your stuff. If you upload naked pictures of your wife, you now know that some Verizon guy is looking at it and jerking off.
 

Juddog

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This is why you need to separately encrypt your content before you send it to the cloud. Sending content to the cloud, and counting on the cloud service to not look through it, is a being naive.
 

bradley

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The one instance of child porn is abhorrent. The lack of basic privacy is reprehensible in every instance.

Though The Patriot Act gives the US govt access to all your files, it even has jurisdiction in Europe.

Don't worry, just give away all your rights and benevolent big brother is merely there to protect you.
 

Darwin333

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Ok..... I really wonder how they knew it was child porn. Was it by filenames and a computer flagged it or was a person just going through what he had stored and stumbled across it?
 

Yreka

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Store your kiddie porn on a local drive.. Everyone knows this !
 

mikeymikec

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Is it ironic that a kiddie porn-wielding priest would store his stash in the cloud?
 

WelshBloke

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All that crap is monitored. They might report the kiddie porn but they aint gonna report any of your secret plans, drawings, patent proposals, or anything you might have that might be worth some money. Hell no, they will just copy it and sell it, just like big brother does. It all gets funneled into wall street so they can use it to make the top 0.1% even richer. But dont you worry, you stupid sheeple. If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about. No, its more like "if you have no ideas of value you have nothing to worry about". And of course most of these corporatism worshipping fools dont have any ideas worth two ounces of piss. They just love licking jack boot.

Yes they have secret research teams reading all your docs and analysing them to find out if they have any worth.

:rolleyes:
 

WelshBloke

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Well I'd like to add that the two deacons i've known, one catholic and one not, were both married with great children and led very normal lives.

...

Marrying children is not normal no matter how great the children are. :p
 

Munky

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And this is why I laugh anytime anyone mentions "cloud" storage as some kind of revolutionary, liberating, marvelous 21-century computing paradigm. Some people just have to learn things the hard way.
 

WelshBloke

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And this is why I laugh anytime anyone mentions "cloud" storage as some kind of revolutionary, liberating, marvelous 21-century computing paradigm. Some people just have to learn things the hard way.

Yeah obviously cloud storage is not ideal if you have a large quantity of child porn to store...

:what:
 

bradley

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And this is why I laugh anytime anyone mentions "cloud" storage as some kind of revolutionary, liberating, marvelous 21-century computing paradigm. Some people just have to learn things the hard way.

Yep, same thing with social networking, I laugh too. Follow the money, it all ends up in the same place/hands.
 

Munky

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Yeah obviously cloud storage is not ideal if you have a large quantity of child porn to store...

:what:

Or anything else to store, even if it's a lame collection of photos from an ex who dumped you 30 years ago and hasn't thought of you since. From my perspective, if you're do not have physical possession and control of your data, then you don't really own it.
 

WelshBloke

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Or anything else to store, even if it's a lame collection of photos from an ex who dumped you 30 years ago and hasn't thought of you since. From my perspective, if you're do not have physical possession and control of your data, then you don't really own it.

Still not seeing why cloud storage isn't a valid service though.

I have my pictures on my PC and backed up on a home server.
I also have them on googles servers.

And the problem is?
 

BudAshes

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So is this forum full of people who love child porn and need to secure it or what? Maybe just a bunch of paranoid freaks. Bottom line is if you think the government can't look at any account you have and anything you have on the internet that you haven't encrypted out the ass, you are delusional.