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He escaped the dark web's biggest bust, and now he's back
- rdtwo 5y agoSeems like a honeypot. Who escapes the fbi and does an interview with wired
- jjoonathan 5y agoThe same factors that would make it a good honeypot would also make it good marketing.
- simorley 5y agoApparently FBI agents who escape the FBI also love to do interviews with wired. "Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM Wired also has a series with the "former" CIA agents as well.
- hunterb123 5y agoMichael Reinoehl
- throw1234651234 5y agoco-co-cold hearted snaekkk
- mythrwy 5y agoAnd now he's telling lies.
- hummel 5y agohttps://archive.is/UTWgR https://archive.is/UTWgR
- rand846633 5y agoNo way this is not a honeypot. Wondering if wired does not know or does not care.
- jbirer 5y agoMost likely they are playing along out of a desperation for views.
- dylan604 5y agoImagine that. A publisher wanting people to read their content. The nerve
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoI also want money, but I don't lie about my grandma dying to get it from my friends.
- iJohnDoe 5y agoWired has done some in depth articles over the years about topics that are really important about privacy and other topics that HN are interested in. It would be a shame if they are knowingly lying about anything.
- MauranKilom 5y agoBut they discuss this possibility in the article? Including arguments from both sides. Why is it on wired to make a call here? Do you want them to editorialize?
- yawaworht1978 5y agoThis has to be running with the ok of the government as a collection pot or he got the truncheon treatment and spit out all the passwords and the government is already running the platform. Or he's just plain naive: "To avoid the risk of his PC being grabbed while he's logged into AlphaBay, DeSnake says he also shuts it down entirely every time he steps away from it, even to take a bathroom break" This will be equalized by a discreet truncheon treatment.
- bongoman37 5y agoThis seems pretty obviously something to encourage naive users to find and test and get caught.
- ryanlol 5y agoNo way this is a honeypot, LE would just co-opt an existing market instead of trying to build their own. DeSnake has cryptographically proven his identity and there’s never been any indication that he was busted. Edit: I’m happy to commit to a bet of up to 100k usd on this topic, preferably settled in cryptocurrency.
- rand846633 5y agoWhy would LE not do both?
- ryanlol 5y agoBecause this would be a huge waste of time, illegal and counterproductive. The PR shitstorm would be massive if the market reached any meaningful size. Even co-opting existing sites for limited periods of time has been controversial, nobody would risk their career doing something this stupid.
- celticninja 5y agoYou should read up on the An0m phone.
- pc86 5y agoGenuinely curious what one has to do with the other. An0m served a very specific purpose which I don't think generalizes well to the dark market "problem."
- ryanlol 5y agoNot even close to a reasonable comparison.
- MonkeyClub 5y agoQuite a close one, actually.
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- dna_polymerase 5y ago> [..] Monero, which is designed to be far more difficult to trace than Bitcoin, whose blockchain has proven to sometimes allow powerful forms of financial tracking. Powerful forms of financial tracking? God damn journos these days are fucking idiots.
- rand846633 5y agoInsulting a whole profession because of some apparent mistakes of an individual seems quite idiotic as well.
- dna_polymerase 5y agoPeople usually do this knowing full well that there are counterexamples, yet the general case warrants the strong oversimplification. With journalism we've seen the profession decline in expertise and standards over the past decades. Mostly because too many publications hire anyone who is willing to generate articles that generate clicks.
- wpietri 5y agoThe industry has declined not because of hiring policies, but because we in the tech industry blew it up and because capitalism and journalism are not totally compatible anyhow. I am also not fond of click-driven headlines and articles. But this is not a new problem; when newspapers were mainly purchased individually, exciting headlines were used to drive sales. Now that companies get paid by the view, guess what! Organizations that prioritize revenue-generating views will survive. If we don't like that, yelling at them won't help. And blaming random things like hiring policies especially won't help. We need to figure out how to get sufficient money into journalism in ways that rewards the kind of journalism we want. Personally, between Patreon and subscriptions, I spend a couple grand a year on that. What are you doing to solve the problem?
- rand846633 5y agoTrue. You could also make the argument that journalism has declined because people will click on anything.
- aaron695 5y agoA Complete Guide to the new AlphaBay Darknet Market (for more info, like the address) - https://darknetone.com/a-complete-guide-to-the-new-alphabay-darknet-market/ https://darknetone.com/a-complete-guide-to-the-new-alphabay-... (NO Covid-19 vaccines, Russia/Belarus/Kazakhstan/Armenia/Kyrgyzstan-related activity, fentanyl) Since when did people think it's clever to just say the word honeypot? The TLA added Monero because life was to easy for them and threw in I2P cause they wanted the experience for their resume? Any actual logic to the lamer honeypot comments or is it just a cool word? DeSnake's announcement - https://ghostbin.com/SZqmV https://ghostbin.com/SZqmV "the 'Fuck it' moment was the infamous college/university presentation of US agents showing a never seen before in public video of the arrest. Seeing the agent laughing and mocking the arrest in a high-spirited manner making it as if he was doing stand-up and the students in front of him were his audience. Disgusting." (This was after Alexandre Cazes's suicide, once you've killed a man it seems like poor form to continue it on for laughs)
- BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 5y agoThe US DOJ absolutely gets its rocks off pursuing those hiding behind tech barriers, especially those who brag about it. Lots of promotions and prestige for those who nail a Mr. Big. Additionally they develop the tech to sweep up copycats. Theoretically you could shut down after several months and take your dough to a country where the long arm of the DOJ can't get you. Russia and Iran are about the only choices.