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Say I'm in the US, but I have an overseas website hosting a browser exploit kit that pushes a trojan to non NATO type countries that steals their bitcoin wallet
by trotsky 15y ago
Say I'm in the US, but I have an overseas website hosting a browser exploit kit that pushes a trojan to non NATO type countries that steals their bitcoin wallet and mails it to me. I then spend those bitcoins with a US service like this and get a US company to ship goods to a US address. Let's even say the US service knows I'm shady but doesn't care as long as my bitcoins show.
Who of any of us are breaking laws? My understanding of US standards is that hacking foreigners on foreign lands generally doesn't constitute a crime, and most jurisdictions don't seem to treat virtual goods like wow gold as actual theft.
Seems like a rocky and lawless world out there for crypto currencies, especially with so many russians / eastern europeans involved in bitcoin.
I have trouble believing I'd get very far calling up the FBI to report a bitcoin theft.
- jrockway 15y agoI have trouble believing that you'd get very far calling up the FBI to report that someone hit you on the head with a hammer for the purpose of stealing the $100 cash in your wallet. Basically, petty crimes are not important. Especially to the FBI. Whether Bitcoin or USD, they don't care. (Relevant internet meme: honey badger.)
- joev 15y agoThey apparently care about a missing hockey puck. "[The] FBI's Regional Crimes Task Force in Chicago reviewed the Chicago police sergeant's video and determined with "100-percent certainty" that Miller picked up the puck." http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nhl/news/story?id=6452071 http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nhl/news/story?id=6452071