Officers were able to find out his real name and an investigation was launched.
The man invited the girl to his residence in Woodbine, where police allege he sexually assaulted her. The pair had initially met through an app called Whisper, which allows users to send and receive messages anonymously. Police are warning young people to be wary when using social media and online apps to meet after a 39-year-old man was charged for the second time in three months with sexual interference against a child under 16.Ī 15-year-old girl went to police in April after earlier meeting up with a man in south Calgary who identified himself using an alias. There’s also all the cybersecurity and privacy news you need to read. Out every Monday, it’s a mix of strange true crime and real-world surveillance, with all the relevant search warrants and court documents for you to pore over. This story is part of The Wire IRL feature in my newsletter, The Wiretap. Whilst the FBI and other government agencies can’t read your WhatsApp messages or see who is Whispering, they can get enough information from either to potentially locate a target. He pleaded guilty and was given 10 years in prison in 2020. When they’d posted a simple whisper saying that boys were immature, a suspect got in touch and arranged a meeting, only to be arrested and charged with attempted sexual enticement of a minor.
According to a search warrant from 2019, a detective with the Boone County Sheriff's Department Cyber Crimes Task Force (BCCCTF) in Missouri set up a “decoy” of a 14-year-old girl. The feds have used the same tactic on Whisper before. Whisper was able to tell police that the Forsei user was male, aged between 26 and 29, “whose phone location services placed him on Guam.” According to the warrant, Whisper can provide various information to law enforcement, including location, chat log timestamps, the content of whispers and IP address. They also obtained information from WhisperText, the San Mateo company that runs Whisper, which had, in 2014, courted controversy for providing user data to the Department of Defense. The police didn’t just rely on WhatsApp for corroborating information.
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