Man Caught With 58 Terabytes Of Child Porn

[ThunderKiss]

There's a lot of drive pooling software out there that will make several different mounted partitions appear as one single partition. A lot of people do this with NAS boxes, so I assume it would be a similar setup. Most general PCs don't have that much room for storage, but a lot of servers do, and they're pretty cheap to buy used, and don't really need to be very fast just to offer up some network-accessible storage.

You're talking about RAIDs but that has a huge downside - if just one of the hard drives kicks the bucket, you lose everything. A friend of mine found that out the hard way, after I've been telling him for years that this a dual-bladed knife.

As others have mentioned, I bet that a lot of it is just a lot of very over-inflated and non-compressed multimedia. For example, if you take a video that was 4 GB, and then transcode it "lossless", you could inflate that video size to well over 30 or 40 gigabytes. Some people don't realize that they're not actually gaining any video quality when they do this.

They're probably doing it for the same reason I reencode music from YouTube to WAV - it won't get any better but most importantly it won't get any worse after reencoding it to a different format.
I for one reencode only music to lossless. Videos - only if the bitrate is an overkill, like with Polly's video in the exercise room. 40-ish minutes video with the ridiculously low audio bitrate of 44 kbps and an overkill video bitrate of 16 Mbps. With H265 NVENC at 5000 kbps you have an exact copy regarding quality and a few times smaller file.

[Yearling]

From the article:

During the course of two days, the detective downloaded more than 4,000 images and videos of child pornography from Belden.

Wow, that's a lot of child pornography! That's more kiddie porn than I've ever seen in the X months I've been on the dark web. He really spent two days downloading cp to catch this guy? Sus. I wonder how full the detective's own hard drives are. Who investigates the investigators?

[SOCRATES2000]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.  (Who will guard the guards themselves)  I've known this quote for years and it highlights Yearling's question of the detective's hard drives.  The concept (but not the quote itself) was written by Plato after Socrates asked this question (though probably not nearly so tersely).  But our government, in it's infinite idiocy (There's a quote by Einstein that fits perfectly here: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity.  And I'm not so sure about the universe.) has pretty much exempted their 'officers' from the law to catch 'real' criminals.  One more quote to end this diatribe.  "Every cop is a criminal, every sinner a saint"  Thank you, Mick Jagger. (Sympathy For The Devil)

[on the rocks]

Not to be pedantic, but I believe the lyric you cite is meant as sarcasm, given the context.  After two verses about the Devil taking different forms over the course of history, we get that sweet bridge and then the lines:

Just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints,
let's end this tale, just call me "Lucifer" cuz I'm in need of some restraint."

The cop being a criminal and the sinner being a saint; that's another example of the Devil disguising who is the bad guy once again.  In the second half of this sentence, he wants to drop the pretense and have us call him by his real name.  So in this context, the impression that the police are the bad guys and the criminals are innocent is the Devil's handiwork.  Since the narrator in the song is the Devil, this makes sense.

[LikelyHuman]

There's a lot of drive pooling software out there that will make several different mounted partitions appear as one single partition. A lot of people do this with NAS boxes, so I assume it would be a similar setup. Most general PCs don't have that much room for storage, but a lot of servers do, and they're pretty cheap to buy used, and don't really need to be very fast just to offer up some network-accessible storage.

You're talking about RAIDs but that has a huge downside - if just one of the hard drives kicks the bucket, you lose everything. A friend of mine found that out the hard way, after I've been telling him for years that this a dual-bladed knife.

What you're describing is JBOD, or RAID 0. A drive-failure in this mode does not necessarily make your data unrecoverable, just a pain in the ass to do so. That's because the file-system is distributed over multiple different disks, and if you take one disk out, then your system will not be able to properly mount the filesystem or read the inode table. However, you can still use data recovery programs like scalpel or foremost to find and retrieve data if it happens to be on the unaffected disks There are also other RAID modes with mirroring that will make a redundant copy of all the disks, so that if one disk goes bad in the JBOD, then you will have its mirror to recover from.

Drive-pooling is different than RAID. It is strictly software, no firmware involved. Your system simply mounts several different partitions with their own distinct file-systems into one path, and then treats them as a 'virtual' partition so that the data on all disks are accessible in one contiguous location. If you remove one drive from the pool, it does not affect the ability to mount the others in any way. Another great advantage with drive-pooling is that you don't actually need to have all of the drives in the pool in the computer that you're mounting the virtual partition on; some can be in the same computer, some can be on a NAS box in another room, and some could even be an NFS share that is accessed through the internet.

[SOCRATES2000]

Not to be pedantic, but I believe the lyric you cite is meant as sarcasm, given the context.  After two verses about the Devil taking different forms over the course of history, we get that sweet bridge and then the lines:

Just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints,
let's end this tale, just call me "Lucifer" cuz I'm in need of some restraint."

The cop being a criminal and the sinner being a saint; that's another example of the Devil disguising who is the bad guy once again.  In the second half of this sentence, he wants to drop the pretense and have us call him by his real name.  So in this context, the impression that the police are the bad guys and the criminals are innocent is the Devil's handiwork.  Since the narrator in the song is the Devil, this makes sense.

I doubt this is the correct place for a breakdown of the Stones (and I've heard anecdotes of people putting words into the mouths of [writers, but songwriters also applies here] that they never intended), but first, the line is "As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer", a third dichotomy instead of a request to end a lie.  Second, is he saying that that is how we perceive them, or is that what they truly are without his blinding of us.  Third, there's a line later that says, "I'll tell you one time, you're to blame".  Is this because we think we're doing right when instead we're doing wrong?  This, I believe is Lucifer's message in the song.  Everything we believe is perverted.  Thus, those in charge are evil, and those condemned are good.  Now, granted, this is self-serving, but it makes a nice point.

[Whynot]

Interesting interpretations of  "Sympathy For The Devil"... ;-)

I'll just say this about that:

I thought I had a lot of CP...

DAMN...

I got some catching up to do, lol

[oignondope]

58 TB, are you sure it's not rather GB ?
Where is on the Internet the so enormous amount of CP to find, to get a collection like that !?

[lolover]

They way the media reports CP busts has always amused me. I know they are trying to create an equivalence to big drug busts where they quote the amount of the drug seized, but there really isn't an equivalency there. Digital CP is only removed from circulation if they caught the producer before he had a chance to share it with anyone, and if he didn't intend to share it then it was never going to be in circulation to begin with. Plus, I have to think that for the antis, even a single jpg file of CP is enough justification to lock someone up and throw away the key, if not the death penalty. The quantity doesn't matter, it's the desire to view it that offends them. It's all just so stupid.

[TooBusyDad]

That's an insane amount, so much so that I don't believe it.
It's either empty space or they're being very broad with their definition of cp. I can believe he had 58 tb of porn with high quality normal porn or he might have downloaded half of Instagram and Flickr kids beach pictures but I can't believe he has that much actual child CP.

[ThunderKiss]

That's an insane amount, so much so that I don't believe it.
It's either empty space or they're being very broad with their definition of cp. I can believe he had 58 tb of porn with high quality normal porn or he might have downloaded half of Instagram and Flickr kids beach pictures but I can't believe he has that much actual child CP.

Maybe he was a hoarder, like me.

[oignondope]

Hi,

A true history: an old man who received a fake .pdf europol/police scam thrown off himself by window, suicide attempted.

[Pat975]

50TB  how big is his hard drive lol

I have three or four of the external 4TB drives that are about the size of a pack of cigarettes.  50TB is 20 of those. Seems a bit large.

[LikelyHuman]

50TB  how big is his hard drive lol

I have three or four of the external 4TB drives that are about the size of a pack of cigarettes.  50TB is 20 of those. Seems a bit large.

Well, in 2020, 10-16 TB drives were pretty widely available on the consumer market. So if you figure he had 5x 12TB drives in a 5-bay NAS, it would have taken up about as much room as a volleyball. If you ever check out r/DataHoarder, there's people with much more physical space dedicated to their virtual storage space that amounts to hundreds of terabytes. I have seen quite a few people claim to have a petabyte (1000tb) or more.

What boggles my mind is how anyone thinks keeping terabytes of unencrypted CP hanging around is a good idea. I guess at that point there's not much point in encrypting it since there's no way to deny it's encrypted data and they'll just demand your key.

[ChildLvr]

Well, I have worked as a Network Tech taking care of Business Class NAD Servers and Yes you can have 60TB or more, but that would be for a big company. A home server with that amount is rarely hear of, even in these days where you can get 20TB HDD, but those cost over $500USD. He would of needed at least 3 of those. So your talking $1500 just for the drives and if he had a $500+ NAS Server to use them. If that was full of CP. I just have to say that dude had a MAJOR!!! CP Addiction, worse than mine, LOL

I think it's more of an exaggeration in the Media Byline. I think the guy was busted with a 60TB Server. On that server he had a bid stash of CP, but most likely it was probably only a few TBs at most. I know there are lots of newer HQ HD vids that have been released, but if you take a 2hr 4K HDR10+ is coming in at about 25-30GB. He would of had to have 1000s of HQ vids to fill 60TB. I have been around CP going back decades and there really isn't enough to really fill that amount. Mow like some of said, he may have had many duplicates. Not sure how well this guy took care of his server. You just have to think that even if RindXXX kept all their stuff on a local server, I don't think it would if amounted to 60TB. That's a lot of DATA.. I have a PVR with a 2TB SSD and it can hold over 200hrs of HD recordings

So, so sum it up, I call BS on this Headline. I didn't really read the whole story, but as usual I think the Headline was more Click-bate than anything else