Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.
  • magiccupcake@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    16 days ago

    These people got caught because someone found their car and thus license plate.

    Another had left a fingerprinted bottle that went missing when watching surveillance footage.

    And then were able to confirm after finding the same outfit from the surveillance footage.

    The lessons to be learned are to not use cars anywhere near the scene, leave no trace, fingerprints or digital evidence, including a phone, and make sure any recognizable clothing is well hidden, or even better thoroughly destroyed.

    Oh and don’t post anything on social media.

    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      15 days ago

      Taking your own car, leaving a bottle with prints at the scene and keeping the clothes worn during the act is just laughably stupid mistakes. I mean, come on guys, have you never watched a detective show!?

      Kinda /s, but also not because damn those are stupid, borderline hilarious, mistakes.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          15 days ago

          Agreed. I think I could get away with quite a bit, but I’m unwilling to do it. Not because I’m a coward (I am though), but because I find it immoral. But I’m willing to help give tips for those who are “intellectually curious.”

  • Captain Janeway@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    16 days ago

    I hate how much effort is put into property damage but when my house was broken into or when my friends truck was stolen, the police did nothing.

    It’s also disturbing how hard it is to be anonymous. Crime or not, it gives me the creeps that anyone could probably track me down if they wanted.

    • TomSelleck@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      16 days ago

      I take my dog for a walk in my neighborhood and walk by no less than 10 different camera setups, and those are the ones I actually notice. Paranoia has led us down the road to a post-privacy society.

      • Level9831@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        16 days ago

        Lol ya and all that video footage is owned by the company of those cameras, like Ring aka Amazon. They can access it at anytime and they can even give it to the police.

        Edit: there are setups in which you can store your footage on your own drives. However, many people don’t know how to set it up so they use out of the box camera + app which stores all the data on the company servers.

        • bork@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          16 days ago

          And Amazon definitely hasn’t ever provided police with any unrestricted access to whatever footage they want!

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    16 days ago

    The irony of being asked to sign up to a website to be able to read an article about opsec failures

  • MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    16 days ago

    With the current state of things, I expect no less than a public hanging in front of the Capitol building.

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    15 days ago

    Yeah, pretty basic opsec is not to drive to the crime scene. And don’t bring anything with you that is not essential to the mission and which might get dropped and be used as evidence.

    Wear cheap sweats and a ski mask. Dispose of them all as soon as you can. If cars are involved, use fake plates. Better yet, use bicycles and ride as much as possible off paved roads. And don’t ride straight home.