re: BR resident, Matthew Walker, arrested for extorting minors for pornagraphic pics

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It wouldn't matter a bit how entirely innocent you happened to be, once this is put out on the internet your life is over.

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Having been an expert witness in one of these cases, this is one of the few crimes that if you get charged, you're guilty as sin.

They drop investigations pretty often that would be plain as day to most people just because the burden of proof is so high. They almost always include actual real time surveillance of your router traffic from outside your house.

Sometimes that black van really is the police.