I guess its in the FBI's interest to not reveal their novel tactics. I imagine a lot of LE "hacking" is social engineering tricks like stealing laptops. Why tr

I guess its in the FBI's interest to not reveal their novel tactics. I imagine a lot of LE "hacking" is social engineering tricks like stealing laptops. Why try to crack crypto and deal with overseas servers when you can just physically grab data. I've also read about a lot of these dotcom criminals suddenly getting an entourage of female admirers. Seems like a perfect way to place a female agent to flirt out his secrets. The INTJ male is impressive in his technical ability but is a complete nightmare socially. LE knows this and exploits it. > IP the government visited wasn’t providing the CAPTCHA, but instead a PHPMyAdmin interface Ulbricht from a technical perspective seems pretty unimpressive as well. Looks like he had some basic sysadmin and business skills but may not have really understood netsec on a high enough level to protect SR from LE. phpmyadmin open to the world? Even using phpmyadmin on a secure server is a very poor practice. Those are major amateur moves. Who knows how many other amateur moves he made.