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“First amendment” my ass. You can’t say anything without these snowflakes jumping in
Feels a bit disingenuous after pardoning January 6 convictions for people who not only made the threats, but showed up to do the job. Is threatening politicians not cool anymore? Does he need to make a choir sing patriotic songs or what?
Seems like this might be one of the first ones that actually was a bit of a leftist, considering the use of the term "Swasticar," which is a little interesting. Funny how the crazies on the far right seem to consistently get to the point where they're able to obtain a firearm.
There's not enough info in here to know how Google was involved if he sent the emails from Proton. Proton absolutely does not cotton to illegal shit, and actionable threats would be up there with LEO compliance.
My guess is he was on a VPN and had logins from a Proton account, validated with a burner phone he kept, and was also logging on to a personal Gmail or using some Google service that identifies him while in the same VPN location. Proton and the VPN give up an IP address that corroborates to what Big G tracks to him.
Edit: even a no-log VPN would likely be compelled to confirm a user at an IP address at a certain time. That's not a a "log" per se...
Idiot should have known to change his VPN location between instances and/or use TOR like a big boy, but mental health issues seem to be there driving force, not rationality.
Any good guides out there for actual privacy to avoid the pitfalls of ahem being an idiot (re: am idiot)
His desire to execute Tesla owners, while understandable considering how they drive, is a bit extreme. His other goals though. 👌
Messages from his burner phone, too, matched the number Payne had listed in his personal contact info while applying for unemployment benefits in February.
If you put your real name on it or associate that phone number with your name, then doesn't that stop meeting the definition of a burner phone?
EDIT: I re-read the wording of the article, and I don't think he used the burner phones number associated with his name as I posted before. The article says this:
"Messages from his burner phone, too, matched the number Payne had listed in his personal contact info while applying for unemployment benefits in February. "
It sounds like he used is REAL phone/number to apply for unemployment, but then at a later time he used is REAL phone to text a message to his burner phone. So the article is saying the "messages found on his burner phone" contained his REAL phone number. This would mean authorities would have had to have the burner phone in hand. So this wasn't the way he was found, simply a way that it was confirmed it was him.
Sure he’s dumb but his failure gives an interesting insight into how wide the US dragnet on its citizens is. A mail address used to apply for unemployment has been indexed somewhere « just in case ». Nice.
"No b-because he was a bad guy so we can accuse him of other bad guy stuff too!"
Inb4 police find "a mysterious white power" and never mention it again
I guess you mean white powder
White power is clearly very openly rampant in police institutions worldwide - although, I guess, the white powder isn't far away either...
Investigators were alerted to his accounts after finding an unusually high number of log-ins and failed log-ins from an unfamiliar devices, locations, or networks. That information is tracked by Google, per the affidavit. Other unusual activity was traced through Payne's VPN or network provider.
So, Google stopped him, and his VPN provider. I'd like to know who his VPN provider was.
Investigators were alerted to his accounts after finding an unusually high number of log-ins and failed log-ins from an unfamiliar devices, locations, or networks
I really don't get that part. How did they make the connection?
You try to login to your google account with the right credentials from several different locations? Yeah that's suspicious.
1-3 regular locations per account is a bit more normal
Are you saying we all need to install a continually rotating VPN when we're surfing the internet? As chaff?
Suspicious to Google sure, but I don't see how the authorities would get involved.
Well, don't announce it in advance, ffs.
They better be giving him a medal before releasing him to complete his mission...