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Really important hint for those young sociopaths that aspire to be the next DPR. It's something I read in a book about 40 years ago: Don't fuck with the Eag
by PhantomGremlin 12y ago
Really important hint for those young sociopaths that aspire to be the next DPR. It's something I read in a book about 40 years ago:
Don't fuck with the Eagle
What this means is you should maintain a low profile. Silk Road was anything but low profile. It was more like waving a red flag at a bull. E.g. from the Wiki article on Silk Road:
Once the site was known publicly, U.S. Senator
Charles Schumer asked federal law enforcement
authorities such as the DEA and Department of
Justice to shut down the website.
"The Eagle" aka the US Federal government has almost unlimited resources. Even if you don't attract the ire of a grandstanding Senator, you might happen to attract the attention of a bureaucrat who wants a promotion. You will be vastly outnumbered. E.g. from the article:
Deryeghiayan and a half dozen
FBI agents surveilled Ulbricht
That's just a small glimpse of the resources deployed against him. There were doubtlessly other FBI agents, supervisors, prosecutors, the DEA, definitely the IRS, probably the NSA.
I know that when you're young and naive, it's easy to think you're the smartest guy in the room. And you may well be. But you probably won't be smarter than the collective intelligence of a national government.