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He goes to the cops who ignore him, because they feel they have better things to do then prevent What enda up being at least two murders.... then later the bad

He goes to the cops who ignore him, because they feel they have better things to do then prevent What enda up being at least two murders.... then later the bad guy buys some SEO and they raid the white-hats place because they think he’s running the site..... the site he handed over to them already... the site they didn’t care about. These cops don’t just seem incompetent, they seem downright moronic.

jopsen 8y ago
It's always surprising when you read a cyber crime story where the police aren't the amateurs :)
JackFr 8y ago
No, it's not quite that simple. As presented by the journalist here, it makes sense to believe him. But imagine seeing what Monteiro is presenting in real-time, with some reasonably cautious skepticism. His computers contain the entire source of the hitman site, he had admin capabilities of the site, enough to take it down. Even as Yura created new sites Monteiro retained the ability to read all of the email of the site. A reasonable reading of that, is that rather than a white knight, it was just as likely he was a co-conspirator. And frankly they shouldn't fully let go of that idea. The author seems willing to take everything Monteiro says at face value, without an ounce of skepticism. If Monteiro and Yura were a team and one got cold feet, how would it play out, and how could one best cover his tracks?
- SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
  >Even as Yura created new sites Monteiro retained the ability to read all of the email of the site. A reasonable reading of that, is that rather than a white knight, it was just as likely he was a co-conspirator. Yes. I found this to be unbelievable. Let’s say bad-admin uses an out of date Wordpress or join pa instance with some security flaw. Am I really to beleive in 2 years he keeps using the same instance every time his site is taken down? That seems extremely unlikely. If your hian site is taken down by some guy in London, you’re going to wonder how; and probably assume it was some bad code on your end. Dude keeps using the same code and keeps wondering how his site keeps getting hacked - yet, knows enough to work SEO, get a guy SEATed, run an anonymous darkwrv site, and handle crypto payments? Sure seems odd.
mdpopescu 8y ago
s/seem/are s/moronic/evil
lunulata 8y ago
To be clear, he is not a white hat, he's a grey hat at best. Once you hack gmail accounts (without Google's permission) you're definitely in grey hat territory with a possible side of black.

jopsen 8y ago

It's always surprising when you read a cyber crime story where the police aren't the amateurs :)

JackFr 8y ago

No, it's not quite that simple. As presented by the journalist here, it makes sense to believe him. But imagine seeing what Monteiro is presenting in real-time, with some reasonably cautious skepticism. His computers contain the entire source of the hitman site, he had admin capabilities of the site, enough to take it down. Even as Yura created new sites Monteiro retained the ability to read all of the email of the site. A reasonable reading of that, is that rather than a white knight, it was just as likely he was a co-conspirator. And frankly they shouldn't fully let go of that idea. The author seems willing to take everything Monteiro says at face value, without an ounce of skepticism. If Monteiro and Yura were a team and one got cold feet, how would it play out, and how could one best cover his tracks?

SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
>Even as Yura created new sites Monteiro retained the ability to read all of the email of the site. A reasonable reading of that, is that rather than a white knight, it was just as likely he was a co-conspirator. Yes. I found this to be unbelievable. Let’s say bad-admin uses an out of date Wordpress or join pa instance with some security flaw. Am I really to beleive in 2 years he keeps using the same instance every time his site is taken down? That seems extremely unlikely. If your hian site is taken down by some guy in London, you’re going to wonder how; and probably assume it was some bad code on your end. Dude keeps using the same code and keeps wondering how his site keeps getting hacked - yet, knows enough to work SEO, get a guy SEATed, run an anonymous darkwrv site, and handle crypto payments? Sure seems odd.

mdpopescu 8y ago

s/seem/are s/moronic/evil

lunulata 8y ago

To be clear, he is not a white hat, he's a grey hat at best. Once you hack gmail accounts (without Google's permission) you're definitely in grey hat territory with a possible side of black.