Ryan McFarlane

And their OPSEC wasn't nearly as good

as these guys OPSEC.

So we were able to start to pull that thread back and work different angles.

We had to go brief the Deputy Attorney General during this case because we had done a T3 and Department of Justice doesn't, you know, that's such a big legal process.

that they don't like to use it, especially for long durations.

So we had to justify that we're seeing all this encrypted traffic.

We are seeing mistakes occasionally, but we had to basically go talk to the DAG and say, hey, this is why we need to do this.

Then I also told Brian that I'm only moderately good.

That being said, the majority of the attachments they sent were encrypted.

They just occasionally, you know, they're human too, forget to encrypt something or there's a, you know, something doesn't work right.

Whoa, this is something I did not know.

And when he was coming into the country, we actually had no technical information tying any one of these individuals to the Bay Rob infrastructure.

The Romanian National Police had very similar data intercepts upon their homes.

And guess what they weren't seeing?

any connection to the BayRob infrastructure.

They weren't talking to the servers, they weren't talking to the proxies, they weren't talking to Tor off of their home internet connection.

So their home ISP was clean, completely clean.

There was a little bit of encrypted traffic that we couldn't explain, but there wasn't anything that we could do with it.

And we had a full surveillance team on him, and he was coming into the country with another individual.

So from the time he stepped on U.S.