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I read this and for some reason I read it like an instruction manual on how to do things right. Given the chain law enforcement followed, the "advice" you can t
by cletus 16y ago
I read this and for some reason I read it like an instruction manual on how to do things right. Given the chain law enforcement followed, the "advice" you can take away from this is:
- Always, always, always use a prepaid credit card. You can buy them everywhere. Pay for them with cash. Don't buy them in a store with good surveillance;
- Make sure you register them with out-of-state addresses and fake names (if you even have to). Use a different card to pay for different things so the trail covers multiple states. This complicates law enforcement;
- Use a foreign intermediary. This GREATLY complicates law enforcement;
- Have that intermediary be an innocent-looking site, like for sending large files. Use a different set of cards for that site;
- If you're not interested in real-time as such you could greatly complicate efforts to obtain a warrant by uploading different pieces of the content to the intermediary site using a variety of networks.
- Encrypt the upload. Have individual pieces meaningless without the whole.
- Upload those pieces via multiple accounts on the fake foreign intermediary. Maybe even use two or more intermediaries.
Not that I have any interest in such things but the engineer in me sees such a post and naturally looks for ways to solve the problems.
The piece about encrypting and uploading different pieces as a background task that simply looks for open networks as you wander around actually sounds like an interesting technical exercise.
Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if such a thing exists already.
- hessenwolf 16y agoI read 'lived with his parents' and thought that was good enough information on the value of this business model.
- ohashi 16y ago2 ways to get richer, earn more or spend less. That said, as you get bigger, you earn more. ad networks pay higher rates as you get more traffic. So I wouldn't dismiss the business model right away. Looking at the traffic curve on that site, it was going up a lot at the end. I bet the bulk was made recently.