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        "alt": "It was a Friday morning in early December, and Janczewski was drinking\ncoffee at his desk in the IRS-CI office when he got back the results of that\nsubpoena: He opened the email to find a name and a home address. The man was\nan American in his thirties who lived in a town outside San Antonio—an\nunlikely collaborator for a twenty-one-year-old Korean managing a child\nexploitation site fifteen time zones away. But the man’s employment, when\nJanczewski looked it up, was even more jarring: He was another Department of\nHomeland Security staffer—this time a Border Patrol agent.\nJanczewski quickly began to assemble public information about the agent\nfrom his social media accounts; he first found a Facebook page for the man’s\nwife, and later an account for the man himself, with his name written backward\nto obscure it. Bice dug up his Amazon page, too, where he seemed to leave\nreviews on hundreds of products and put others on a “wish list”—including\nexternal storage devices that could hold terabytes of videos, hidden cameras, and\nother cameras designed to be snaked through small spaces, like holes drilled in a\nwall.\nFinally, with a creeping sense of dread, Janczewski saw that the Border\nPatrol agent’s wife had a young daughter and that he had created a crowdfunding\npage on GoFundMe to raise money to legally adopt the girl as his stepdaughter.\n“Fuck,” Janczewski thought to himself. “Did he upload videos of the\ndaughter?”\nJanczewski looked back at Welcome to Video and saw that some of the\nthumbnails of the videos uploaded by the person with this username showed the\nsexual assault of a young girl about the daughter’s age. He realized he wouldn’t\nbe spending that weekend at home—that he now had a duty to separate this\nBorder Patrol agent from his victim as quickly as possible.",
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  "text": "relevant passage from @agreenberg.bsky.social's Tracers In The Dark (2022)"
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