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Trading illegal drugs is illegal, but entire black markets still exist for that purpose. Monitoring illegal transactions that have no physical footprint (unlike
by pphysch 3y ago
Trading illegal drugs is illegal, but entire black markets still exist for that purpose. Monitoring illegal transactions that have no physical footprint (unlike drugs) is very difficult.
- tastyfreeze 3y agoIf it is illegal to sell then ostensibly the government cannot legally purchase it.
- pphysch 3y agoDoD black budget. Some highly classified CIA/NSA project needs $10M for data collection, and no one bats an eye. Snowden revealed that CIA spent $10Bs on "data collection" per year.