Re: MEGA-THREAD: Vigilante violence and hard-right thugs
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2026 8:17 am
Alex Rosen of Predator Poachers catches people by his team doing multiple strategies
1) decoy chats and the decoy requesting to meet them (this is the most common)
2) gathering wifi packet snippets of illegal media of children, this involves his behind the scenes tech team collecting countless wifi packets
3) getting people to share enough info in the decoy chats or exploiting the fact that Telegram leaves phone numbers open in default, sometimes he just gets multiple user names and google searches the username to find irl info, ie googling an email address and it giving a real name.
Most of the time Alex Rosen catches harmless special needs people or internet weirdo shutins but every now and then he catches someone who actually does harm like a guy raping babies. I respect the few serious catches of Rosen but some of them are low to zero threat to society.
I have thought about the legality of 2 since it violates federal law of intentionally viewing CP.
1) decoy chats and the decoy requesting to meet them (this is the most common)
2) gathering wifi packet snippets of illegal media of children, this involves his behind the scenes tech team collecting countless wifi packets
3) getting people to share enough info in the decoy chats or exploiting the fact that Telegram leaves phone numbers open in default, sometimes he just gets multiple user names and google searches the username to find irl info, ie googling an email address and it giving a real name.
Most of the time Alex Rosen catches harmless special needs people or internet weirdo shutins but every now and then he catches someone who actually does harm like a guy raping babies. I respect the few serious catches of Rosen but some of them are low to zero threat to society.
I have thought about the legality of 2 since it violates federal law of intentionally viewing CP.