> It's strange to me that people who make a habit of doing fantastically illegal things on the internet are always so sloppy about it. This is completely the w

> It's strange to me that people who make a habit of doing fantastically illegal things on the internet are always so sloppy about it. This is completely the wrong way to think about it. Remember the Defender's Dilemma: to run an illegal business like this, your opsec needs to be perfect: every single possible channel of information leakage (including the "unknown unknowns"), every minute, every hour, every day, forever. You need to be lucky every time, the feds only need to be lucky once. When you focus on the specific mistakes that people made and thus call them "sloppy", you're missing all the things they did right; you might not have made those mistakes if you were in their position, but you would've made different mistakes.