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Dream Market is still up since Nov 2013. (1 year older than even AlphaBay) Perhaps they're the ones that are actually based in Russia ;P You seriously have to
by ryanlol 9y ago
Dream Market is still up since Nov 2013. (1 year older than even AlphaBay) Perhaps they're the ones that are actually based in Russia ;P
You seriously have to be a moron to host your DNM in Canada or NL though, NL LE especially has many years of experience and millions worth of equipment for these investigations. Pick a place where they're less likely to have advanced DMA equipment handy! Even better though, is to choose a place where the FBI won't be able to fly a team with advanced DMA equipment.
In fact, I wouldn't be too shocked if the rather sophisticated wiretap gear the Dutch police have at AMS-IX was capable of identifying hidden sites with timing attacks.
Supposedly this was posted on Hansa forums by the staff in the middle of the takedown http://i.imgur.com/yowD1Vr.png http://i.imgur.com/yowD1Vr.png
- nthcolumn 9y agoThe Dutch, Russians and US had some deal going on last year where their law-enforcement and even spooks were co-operating, tracking stuff end to end from russia to netherlands. It all got messed up by some CIA with a usb stick apparently. Russians spotted it, didn't like. So hosted in russia is not going to save you, depending on who your friends are of course.
- ryanlol 9y agoI guess you're referring to http://electrospaces.blogspot.de/2017/06/dutch-russian-cyber-crime-case-reveals.html http://electrospaces.blogspot.de/2017/06/dutch-russian-cyber... https://www.volkskrant.nl/4497360/ https://www.volkskrant.nl/4497360/ https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/2017/hacker/ https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/2017/hacker/ To me this paints a pretty realistic picture of how difficult it is for western LE to co-operate with Russia, it's not impossible but it certainly isn't easy. Both sides will be cherry-picking the things they share, with the Russian cops facing ever-increasing pressure from the intelligence side of things. It's worth remembering that this story ended with Sergei Mikhailov in a Russian jail cell facing charges of treason. No, I don't believe hosting in Russia will magically solve all of your problems. I however do believe that it'll make LE co-operation significantly more difficult, especially after the recent events.
- nthcolumn 9y agoYes this exactly but also heard that there was a fight one day in Dreisberg? He said he saw John Wheeler with a usbstick. He went to the Dutch and that it all got a bit tense. Did GRU then accuse Mikhailovich with passing information to the CIA? Poor guy. Interesting about the Equinox DPI 'cache' too. http://nos.nl/artikel/2181605-deze-data-blokkendozen-zorgen-ervoor-dat-jij-snel-kunt-netflixen.html http://nos.nl/artikel/2181605-deze-data-blokkendozen-zorgen-... (Dutch) Is there a bottleneck there similar to Cornwall? Spies huh!
- mindcrime 9y agoIt leads one to wonder... what is the "best" place to host servers if you're going to run a darkweb market? Seems like you'd want a place where the government/police/spooks aren't as tech savvy and sophisticated, and perhaps somewhere where the government isn't on the best terms with traditional Western powers. Venezuela? But do they even have electricity for running servers? Maybe some smaller African nations? Botswana? Mali? Burkina Faso? Togo? But what's the state of 'net connectivity there? Is sufficient bandwidth available? Are there colo centers or hosting providers there? I honestly don't know... Other possibilities?
- blattimwind 9y ago> Venezuela? But do they even have electricity for running servers? Venezuela isn't a third world country. Yes, they have electricity (and it is very cheap, hence a lot of BTC mining there).
- ven_bug_trap 9y agoNot for long: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/10/bitcoin-mining-is-big-business-in-venezuela-but-the-government-wants-to-shut-it-down/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/10...
- mindcrime 9y agoOK, maybe I was being a little glib. But still, the news reports I hear from that area haven't been very positive as of late, and I do wonder if the country is fundamentally stable enough to rely on hosting anything there.