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Could be, but would they really dare to mock themselves in the honeypot? If it is a honeypot, it's very convincing and elaborate.

loginx 13y ago
I would say, that's exactly what you want from your honeypot. What I don't really know, I guess, are the legal implications of entraping people on such a mass scale. I'm also not sure about the usefulness of such a honeypot, since you can't actually track the buyers. Just because someone pays you to send drugs to some address, doesn't mean it's their own address
- corin_ 13y ago
  IANAL, but my understanding of entrapment is that law enforcement has to persuade you to break a law that you wouldn't otherwise have broken - for example if you walk up to a cop and say "sell me some weed" that isn't entrapment, unless he initiated it and persuaded you to try to buy some weed - so if this site was a honeypot, it wouldn't be entrapment, as buyers and sellers are both going there without any persuasion, because they already want to do something illegal. That said, I agree with other comments here as to why it's unlikely to be a honeypot.
nikcub 13y ago
> If it is a honeypot, it's very convincing and elaborate. There is no other way to run a honeypot. Reminder that the feds ran the two largest carding forums on the web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkMarket http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkMarket They almost entirely destroyed English-language US-based carding forums in the process.
groups 13y ago
>would they really dare to mock themselves in the honeypot? Of course they would. The makers of a maximally-effective honeypot aren't going to shy away from making fun of TLAs. They'll do what's most effective. With that said, I doubt it's a honeypot. Of course I don't plan to test that hypothesis.
esw 13y ago
To me, that seems like the easiest possible thing to do. If they have the original site code, then it's just a matter of making some superficial changes and re-launching as "Silk Road 2.0".
- workbench 13y ago
  Isn't that a terrible idea considering the feds have the source code? Would be fine if the HTML is the same but the backend should be redone
Wingman4l7 13y ago
Would an undercover cop say "fuck the police!" when talking to the people he was angling to bust? Of course he would.

loginx 13y ago

I would say, that's exactly what you want from your honeypot. What I don't really know, I guess, are the legal implications of entraping people on such a mass scale. I'm also not sure about the usefulness of such a honeypot, since you can't actually track the buyers. Just because someone pays you to send drugs to some address, doesn't mean it's their own address

corin_ 13y ago
IANAL, but my understanding of entrapment is that law enforcement has to persuade you to break a law that you wouldn't otherwise have broken - for example if you walk up to a cop and say "sell me some weed" that isn't entrapment, unless he initiated it and persuaded you to try to buy some weed - so if this site was a honeypot, it wouldn't be entrapment, as buyers and sellers are both going there without any persuasion, because they already want to do something illegal. That said, I agree with other comments here as to why it's unlikely to be a honeypot.

nikcub 13y ago

> If it is a honeypot, it's very convincing and elaborate. There is no other way to run a honeypot. Reminder that the feds ran the two largest carding forums on the web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkMarket http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkMarket They almost entirely destroyed English-language US-based carding forums in the process.

groups 13y ago

>would they really dare to mock themselves in the honeypot? Of course they would. The makers of a maximally-effective honeypot aren't going to shy away from making fun of TLAs. They'll do what's most effective. With that said, I doubt it's a honeypot. Of course I don't plan to test that hypothesis.

esw 13y ago

To me, that seems like the easiest possible thing to do. If they have the original site code, then it's just a matter of making some superficial changes and re-launching as "Silk Road 2.0".

workbench 13y ago
Isn't that a terrible idea considering the feds have the source code? Would be fine if the HTML is the same but the backend should be redone

Wingman4l7 13y ago

Would an undercover cop say "fuck the police!" when talking to the people he was angling to bust? Of course he would.