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No 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
by ryanlol 5y ago
No 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.
- ryanlol 5y agoNot really. An0m wasn’t illegal, provided useful actionable intelligence and didn’t enable anyone to commit crimes. Running a platform to let anonymous vendors sell credit cards in exchange for untraceable cryptocurrency isn’t really going to be very productive
- MonkeyClub 5y ago> An0m wasn’t illegal, provided useful actionable intelligence and didn’t enable anyone to commit crimes. An0m wasn't illegal because it was operated by LE. But it did enable illegal actions, and the operating LEOs overlooked illegal actions, until enough data was collected on big fish.
- ryanlol 5y agoAn0m (the product) would be legal regardless of who operates it. An0m did not enable any illegal actions, those same acts would have taken place regardless of An0m.