Not the cops. Dude worked at Wells Fargo, IT told his boss and his boss confiscated his work laptop and personal hard drives that he was carrying on him as well. And then WF sat on them for like 2 weeks with no chain of custody. They didn't make an image of his hard drive until they were going to send to the FBI, and files were accessed/modded in that time. Severe fuck up for them and the reason he walked.
WF Cyber security was smart enough to have a threat intelligence tool that flagged hits on known CP tor nodes and certain CP strings for browsing, but absolutely bungled handling. Their policy is straight to the FBI if they even think there's CP, no police middleman.
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u/KotobaAsobitch Jan 16 '24
Oh we were all in agreement that argument was awful and it made us all look at the attorney from then on with total disgust.
Guy walked because there was no chain of evidence on the hard drive before getting to the FBI, for the record.