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by which 2y ago
Civil forfeiture is the only way to recover funds from scammers overseas. They will never be in US court or if they are it will be many years later. Go on RECAP and you can constantly see multi million dollar seizures for business email c
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If you actually read the article, they weren't doing anything illegal... that's why IJ is giving them legal representation. The government would have a harder time seizing stablecoins because they couldn't say "well a K
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Highly recommend anyone who cares about this to do the CRFB’s Debt Fixer: https://www.crfb.org/debtfixer In this simulation you have to make choices to bring debt to 100% of GDP by 2034. For the most part you learn that di
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Residency is pretty much for sale in the UAE. However it is virtually impossible to be naturalized in the UAE through the official route. Most of the country is foreign born and there are lots of benefits to being a citizen so this delibe
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MTProto is pretty much transport layer encryption. After the MTProto decryption occurs, Telegram servers still ultimately receive your unencrypted message encoded as a https://core.telegram.org/method/messages.sendMess
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What is stopping Telegram from signing in as you and reading all of your past messages by changing how the authentication logic is handled for specific targeted users? Not saying they have done this, but they obviously could.
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I’m referring to tracfones or similar prepaid devices which you can buy in the US for very cheap. In other countries if you apply yourself just a little bit you can get the same result. Greece has SIM card registration yet you can buy pre
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Telegram outright refuses to comply with any records requests not related to child abuse or terrorism, and even those they often delay and only release phone numbers and IP addresses. They have the data and basically use grand scale legal
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Why would a criminal mastermind pay $1000 for an anonymous Telegram account when they could buy a burner phone with a prepaid SIM included for like $20 to register and throw it out? In my experience the people who buy those are more Durov
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Political machines did deliver tangible benefits to their constituents through what could be described as vote buying. In Daley's Chicago, if you there was a pothole on your street or your cousin who was new to the country needed a jo
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Why this article focuses on a small rebel group I don’t know. I am pretty sympathetic to them, but unfortunately they don’t really have a lot of power. The larger ones, like the United Wa State Army, the Kachin Independence Army, the Arak
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Yes but there's no law requiring this and it raises their bounce rate. I don't see any evidence that if law enforcement asked them to shut down a domain that they wouldn't. DDoS as a service existed long before Cloudflare an
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This talking point is tired. They would just pay $100/month for ddos-guard. I don't understand why Cloudflare should be forced to screen customers by default or held to a standard that no other Internet business is. Why not go
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Meh, most of these people are parasites. I agree the government going after things like patient assistance programs for helping Medicare or TRICARE patients due to the AKS is probably bad. But the typical prosecution is much more straightf
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I would hardly describe the deal as friendly. He already did 5 years in a prison that was worse than where he would have stayed in the US. Also, there was a bunch of legal uncertainty over the case given the 1st amendment concerns. The g
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by which 2y ago
Marc Rich was pardoned while a fugitive for much more serious crimes.
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If Australia truly loved Assange they would've done the thing Russia does where they start their own bogus competing extradition proceeding in order to repatriate the person. Not to mention that they stuck him with a $500k bill!
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The money was only stopped at the Federal Reserve because the address used in some of the wire transactions included the word Jupiter which was a sanctioned entity at the time and the matching was sufficiently fuzzy that this was caught. T
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Law enforcement industry partnerships weird me out a little bit too. Cases like this are maybe a little more innocent: https://www.wired.com/story/big-pipes-ddos-for-hire-fbi/ . But then you have Spamhaus compili
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That is disturbing. Were you running an exit node from your home? Or maybe they were watching Tor users and some sort of traffic analysis heuristics they were using gave them a false positive?
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It's in https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-22/a-massive...
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Would you mind sharing the report?
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He was also an HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ryanlol
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It's basically the Chinese version of hawala except with drug dealers. A number of ethnicities have developed informal value transfer systems. Pretty sure it's well documented that everyday Argentinians use systems like this for
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by which 3y ago
I wouldn't be offended but we didn't really do any of that, at least not as a systematic government effort. We required registration of foreign agents which the government used as a basis to stop Nazi propaganda newspapers when t
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by which 3y ago
The $75 billion number comes from a study available on SSRN that did an analysis of data from Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Tron: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4742235 . The study did not just look at re
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Not that the number isn't absurdly large, but there are a few reasons to think that estimate is about an order of magnitude too high. The first of which is that Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar all together only have a GDP of about $100 bil
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Krebs investigations' overwhelmingly rely on reused emails and phone numbers across services which he follows back to some account they registered in 2008 in their real name. This is very effective because he is investigating cybercri
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I wouldn't say easy but things are definitely easier now that it is possible to pay for things anonymously without having to use things like Liberty Reserve. On the other hand less of the web is usable now without Javascript and track
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by which 3y ago
Not really. With Tor, Protonmail, njal.la, Flokinet (or one of a hundred other competitors), and $100 in Bitcoin from an ATM that you convert to Monero, you have enough to host a website and domain that are completely disassociated from yo

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