Here's the humiliating reason Paul Manafort got busted for alleged witness tampering

[riversedge]

Here’s the humiliating reason Paul Manafort got busted for alleged witness tampering


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/heres-humiliating-reason-paul-manafort-got-busted-alleged-witness-tampering/

05 Jun 2018 at 09:37 ET
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As Gizmodo reports, Manafort tried to use encrypted messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram as a way to send potentially incriminating messages without a chance of them getting intercepted by law enforcement officials.


There was just one problem with Manafort’s scheme, however: He apparently had his encrypted messages over these apps backed up through Apple’s iCloud service. This is a problem because it seems that federal agents have a search warrant to conduct surveillance of Manafort’s iCloud data, and special counsel Robert Mueller’s office cited WhatsApp messages obtained via his iCloud account as evidence against him.

Cloud computing services such as iCloud, Google Drive and DropBox can automatically back up files that you create on your devices to a web storage space where you can access them from other web-connected devices.


This means that if you back up encrypted messages sent to other people through one of these services, anyone who has access to your cloud account can view them — even though they were encrypted when you sent them to someone else..............................

[PJMcK]

1. The criminal thought he was being clever

Foolish man.

[mitch96]

11. "The criminal thought he was being clever"

this is literally the gang who could not shoot straight... Hello mr Foot, meet mr Bullet..
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[MaryMagdaline]

28. This was the same guy who could not convert PDF to Word

He makes me look tech-savy

[PJMcK]

29. Manafort & Trump deserve one another

Neither understands technology and both are crooks.

How far we've fallen!

[edbermac]

2. But...but...but....Hillary's unsecured emails....

I can just hear it now.

[madaboutharry]

3. Manafort is of a generation that doesn't have a deep understanding

of how these things work.

"The cloud? I'm not sure about this 'cloud thing' - can you explain to me how that works?"

[FakeNoose]

8. Probably never knew about default settings

Every device has default settings, all you need to do is un-click them. But you have to know about them first.
One more reason why the FBI is way ahead of these guys.

[NewJeffCT]

4. I wonder if Mueller

didn't more strongly push for Manafort to remain locked up because he thought something like this would happen and he planned for it.

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. I think that could certainly be true.

[Brother Buzz]

5. Hoist with his own petard

[erronis]

16. Ouch! (I know what that means, but it always conjures up a rope around a weenie.)....

In dump's case, teenie.

[Leghorn21]

6. Didn't he get snagged in the first place for emailing Gates a document he didn't know how to

convert to a pdf or something? - a tech-stupid move that could have easily avoided, apparently -

at any rate, GOOD TIMES, river!!!

[gopiscrap]

7. love it

[Frustratedlady]

9. I wonder if Manafort is a believer now?

He gets tripped up all the time.

Don't mess with Mueller and his gang. They are always one step ahead of you.

I suppose Manafort is in jail, by now. I haven't made it through the news, yet.

[Blue_true]

22. Hearing set for June 15th. I wonder why so long and why Mueller agrees to the Court date.

My guess is with Trump now throwing Manafort under a bus, and now Manafort caught redhanded communicating with a Russian agent, Mueller may know Manafort has no choice but to turn state's witness.

[George II]

12. I guess he never listened to his mama:

[Dopers_Greed]

13. Mueller is playing 100-dimensional chess against these evil idiots

[blogslut]

14. From the Gizmodo article:

https://gizmodo.com/paul-manafort-learns-that-encrypting-messages-doesnt-ma-1826561511

What can the average person do to protect themselves from the prying eyes of the feds? Number one is don’t do crimes. Manafort appears to have skipped that step...

[progressoid]

18. The comments on that article are hilarious.

[GusBob]

15. I think the folks receiving the messages also gave them to the feds

They knew they were wrong. which is actually more humiliating if you ask me

[ffr]

17. For somebody so well connected to organized crime, you'd think he'd know better.

What a complete moron!

[gordianot]

19. Remember in the movies it took the Police minutes to trace a call?

That was a very effective piece of social engineering. The same goes for cell phone services that are locked and unavailable to authorities. This is followed with noisy attempts to convince the public signals are private. Anyone who thinks they have the upper hand on privacy has been sold a lie. Actually Manafort should take comfort in that someone thinks this miserable POS is a big fish POS.

[TeamPooka]

20. Old guys plus new tech equals evil hilariousness.

[ehrnst]

21. And he'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that damned Cloud

and Adobe PDFs....

[vlyons]

23. Ya can't fix stupid

[lunatica]

24. OMG! I actually understand this article!

I’ve become a modern person who understands electronic jargon and social media and I just got my first iPhone only a year ago. I never even had a cellphone before that. Although I was very versed in using a computer since the 1990s. I used it for all my work processing travel and entertainment reimbursements for years and I use photoshop for artwork and for a time I managed a website so I know basic html and used Dreamweaver for web editing.

Now I have an iPhone, an iPad and a computer that are all synced through the iCloud and I use WhatsApp and messenger. The thing I learned with this article is that WhatsApp is encrypted and secure BUT only if you don’t store all your stuff in iCloud!

All that newfangled electronic stuff is a minefield! Your everyday nefarious stuff is much harder to hide than it used to be. Itty bitty mafiosos with their itty bitty criminal minds don’t have a chance in hell of doing business as usual in the electronic sphere.

[Corvo Bianco]

25. oh my god hahaha

So Mueller saw the whole secret message as he was sending it out there on the sly? That's so embarrassing!

[underthematrix]

26. I can't stop laughing

[saidsimplesimon]

27. "Life is like a box of chocolates."

He thought it was the the coco"nut" topped delight. hahaha, it was feces.

[Blue Owl]

30. Send in the clouds

n/t

[raven mad]

31. I should not be laughing this loud this early (4:56 a.m.).............

You'd think they would learn.................