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While there are a lot of “outsourced” malware-as-a-service and hacking-as-a-service outfits out there, the majority have law enforcement somehow embedded in som
by 1cvmask 6y ago
While there are a lot of “outsourced” malware-as-a-service and hacking-as-a-service outfits out there, the majority have law enforcement somehow embedded in some part of the supply chain or are a complete honeypot run by governments to entrap criminals. Beware outsourcers bearing gifts.
The “encrypted” Swiss phone of choice by narco traffickers (and others) in the 1980s run by the CIA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
- dstick 6y agoThere’s a much more recent example from 2020: https://www.france24.com/en/20200703-france-united-kingdom-netherlands-police-arrests-cyber-crime-hacking-encrochat https://www.france24.com/en/20200703-france-united-kingdom-n... Police ran that service for quite a while before cracking down simultaneously across multiple countries.
- superhuzza 6y agoSounds like the servers running the service were compromised, not that the authorities were actively running the service. They just sat back and let it continue until they decided to move on the information gathered.
- jacquesm 6y agoNo, they were forced to act because it became known that the servers were compromised. "EncroChat sent what it called an "emergency" text to its users on June 13 saying it had been compromised"
- superhuzza 6y ago>No, they were forced to act Well, they really weren't considering they could have just not raided. The circumstances changed and they decided to act on what they had.
- jacquesm 6y agoAfter that text the clock was ticking, and rapidly so. It's a pretty interesting bust when you get into the details, highly recommended.
- zibarn 6y agoGiven how well the narco traffic is doing I would actually buy that phone
- mattigames 6y agoThey know that if they actually capture them all they would be left without work. Instead their goal is to say "look they are even bigger than before we need even more funds!!"
- gitanovic 6y agoOn the other hand, if they cought them all, in the long run society will remove the funding, actually leaving us without an "immune-system" There is a balance to be achieved
- demosito666 6y agoThe right immune system here would be to legalize the drugs and regulate them, just as we do with ethanol. Then you can remove the funding from war on drugs and related entities. Financing an army of bureaucrats and militants who feast on county's resources and undermine the democracy is not a terminal goal of a society.
- failuser 6y agoWas the phone or the traffickers run by CIA?
- ceejayoz 6y agoI’d imagine owning the former made owning the latter easier.
- golergka 6y agoIf it's Russia we're talking about, law enforcement are just taking care of the competition.