Originally published at: A drug dealer sharing a photo of cheese online also shared his fingerprints, leading to arrest | Boing Boing
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how was the cheese though?
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Fingerprint matching has always been a racket. I betcha there’s no scientific validation for this cheesy procedure.
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I call bullshit. My Samsung can’t always match my fingerprint when I touch the sensor, but they can pull and match fingerprints from a compressed and blurry photo. Color me skeptical.
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Are we sure this isn’t just copaganda and the fingerprint from cheese photo story a BS parallel construction to cover inadmissible evidence?
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He should have just posted it on
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I guess drug dealing is like hiking and camping: leave no trace.
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First constipation (or explosive diarrhea in some people), now narcing to the cops? Is there no end to cheese’s treachery?
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Unclear from TFA is any indication of how a photo of the suspect’s hand holding some cheese links him to Actual Criminal Activity. I guess if the account is known to be involved in Said Activity and the photo allows them to identify the account holder? Anyway, great reporting, CNN.
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I’m guessing that it didn’t have to be a 100% confidence in this case. It just had to be enough of a match to give them probable cause to track down the user of that account, and once they had him they could figure out if it was the guy they were looking for.
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Apparently, aged Stilton doesn’t contain much lactose.
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What are you in for, mate?
Drug dealing.
How’d they nick you?
Well…
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I thought the love of cheese only got this guy in trouble…
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Regardless of the quality of the photo he pleaded guilty so the ploy worked.
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FTFY.
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The implication is that they already had his dabs on record and this photo identified him as the owner of the drug-dealing account.
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I wonder when they too his mug shot did they ask him to “say, Cheese”!
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Nah, they have access to cutting-edge tech like this.
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