Dave Mack

And my best crack at that is basically maybe it was the mode that this camera was set in, that it was not set to record, but it was logging events, and that they're working with Nest and Google to try to extract that.

Yeah, to explain this simply, these doorbell cameras will have battery power to them.

OK, so you could disconnect it from that base.

Then an event gets logged, you know, within its software and that now you've moved it, but it's not seeing any person as it's moving.

When you turn that, you know, 25 minutes later, somebody picks it up and it's pointing towards a person.

Now it's logging that.

that event again, that it saw the person.

My assumption would be that it did not record an image.

It seems to be that is the case because they being the sheriff's department, law enforcement has not indicated that they were all different individual.

And what is being reported is consistent from all outlets so far.

You've got outlets there in Tucson, local TV, but then you've got the national angle of it with TMZ, and they appear to all say the same information.

So whether they're identical, I don't know, but it was emailed to the outlets, and that would be indicative of easy enough just to copy and paste or forward whatever you want to do.

Yes, so they could use a series of VPNs to protect this, you know, where they created the email accounts.

you know depending on how nuanced they are they could make this very very difficult now what i will say is if there's any team uh the fbi is probably the best in the world at unwinding that so you know it takes time uh and i think that uh that is something that they're clearly clearly focused on

No, this would be far more nuanced.

In order to hide your identity from the FBI, it would be far more nuanced than subscribing to a VPN service.

You would need to have planned out the devices you're gonna use, how you're gonna connect to the internet, and then layering, filtering that message through multiple devices that might be not located with you.

So I'd be unable to predict exactly how they did it, but my guess is it was a pretty nuanced effort to protect that.

Yeah, I guess the key point that I'm trying to make is if you're going to hide your identity in sending an email from the FBI, it's not going to be a $9.99 a month subscription service that you log into and sign up for.

You're going to have to have some pretty advanced technical skills to at least delay that process.