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> The FBI has some very effective ways to pick faces out of the crowd once there's real money on the line. Like what? Any proof? How many crimes out of 100 do

• shadowgovt 6y ago
  The FBI's history is a lot to go into in the space of a Hacker News comment thread, but to summarize the thought: yes, the long tail of crimes go unsolved, but high-profile crimes or crimes embarrassing to the state tend to get resolved because the organization has many resources to devote to such a task (especially in the digital era). For example, this was embarrassing to the government because it hit national news, and the cost of the tools put on the task of finding the woman are disproportionate to the damage to the car. https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/instagram-etsy-sale-tattoo-how-fbi-found-woman-accused-of-torching-ppd-cars/2436832/ https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/... In this case, someone trying a major stock market manipulation would have drawn a lot of org resources. And given that even without those resources, it appears the dragnet may be closing in on them (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-e...), it would have likely been a bad call to try actual stock manipulation with their hack.