Matt Parker
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They were secret.
They marched them into the jungle and would hold them there and ransom them to the fishing industry or ransom them to their families in Malaysia.
Wow.
So that was a human trafficking syndicate.
And it had been happening for years and years, and it was rumored that something was going on like that, but there was no evidence.
Nobody really knew how or when.
And this was taking place for me in 2014, 13.
Somebody, one of my donors who was an Army Ranger called me up and said, Matt, have you heard of Celebrate?
And I'm like, no.
Celebrate, what is it?
And he said, well, it's a digital forensics tool.
We used it to fight terrorism in Afghanistan.
I think it could help you fight trafficking.
I'm like, I'm in.
So he donated the device to me.
It's called a UFED, a universal forensics extraction device.
And I looked at this thing.
I'm like, what?
What am I going to do with this?
So I called Celebrite, and I told them what I was hoping to accomplish, and they were like, we're in.