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> Microsoft’s target market was the country’s drug-trafficking and murder-for-hire gangs, but winning them over would be a challenge. I love that they use his
by throwup238 2y ago
> Microsoft’s target market was the country’s drug-trafficking and murder-for-hire gangs, but winning them over would be a challenge.
I love that they use his nom de guerre for the whole article, creating many choice quotes about Microsoft's criminality.
> The FBI was secretly managing the whole company, under the code name Operation Trojan Shield.
tldr The FBI used affiliate marketing to avoid claims of entrapment and embed itself in the European underworld after shutting down Phantom Secure. I actually have one of their Blackberries that I hope will be worth a lot of money one day