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Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S

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Re: Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S

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Read through Kreb's archive, he has screenshots and more info. If I remember correctly one was on the clearnet but required some sort of verification before you got access.

I've been a fan of Krebs for a while. He get's a lot of access and information from other hackers (that were pissed at another hacker) or security analysts. Gotta give him props though, he taught himself a lot, including learning Russian

I think one of his best features is his follow through too. Real good journalistic nose for following a lead.

Re: Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S

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post #47

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This is a common misconception. The fourth amendment only limits the actions of the state, and case law establishes how evidence is excluded from trials. So, if I break into my neighbor's house and find child porn on his computer, that evidence is admissible in court. But if the police break into my neighbor's house without a warrant and search his computer, it isn't admissible, because it's a fourth amendment violat…

People have been arrested when burglars stole their computer and claimed to have found "child porn" on it. http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/06/us/california-robbery-porn-bus... 4th amendment or not, you'd think that the "rules of evidence" and the word of a burglar would lend credence to the explanation that the burglar planted it to make himself seem more respectable in the eyes of the court. It's outrageous in this case,…

As soon as the burglars figure this out, we're all screwed!

Re: Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S

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post #80

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Why should there be no penalty to the judicial branch for abusing the fourth amendment?

Again, in Europe, it's considered a little weird that we have an exclusionary rule that applies to any branch of government. But the reason is: judges aren't abusing the Fourth Amendment; they're the arbiters of it.

Only the Supreme Court can claim that; lower judges are overruled all the time (in some sense).

Re: Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S

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post #81

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This sounds like advice never to begin farming.

As a farm boy who grew up on a wheat farm, at the end of the season after harvesting the wheat that we had "brought up" in the spring or the previous winter, we would plow the remainder under, bringing it down again.

There are people who will tell you that agriculture was just a giant mistake on the part of some enterprising hunter-gatherers, since it locked all of humanity in to agriculture forever.

Re: Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S

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Payment information contained in those emails — including shipping and other account information — put the happy couple and their young son in Naples, Italy. I am not at all surprised they found him in Naples. That city is a festering breeding ground for scammers, fraudsters, mafiosi, Camorra, and every kind and type of unscrupulous person. I have never hated a city I've visited so much as Naples.

But they make great pizza there...

they invented pizza there...

Re: Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S

#97
post #24

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I doubt it, this isn't a drug cartel kingpin or mafia don we're talking about. He's just a troll.

These criminals are not stealing all these credit cards for fun. It's to make money. They have money. Obviously they can throw $200 at someone just to troll him. They could pull together more if they really decided it was necessary. Money talks.

Online organized crime has been going on for over a decade, and Krebs has been covering it for that long too. He's quite well known in the online criminal underworld. If a well-resourced and ruthless criminal wanted Krebs dead, it would have already happened.

Instead the high-end criminals seem to be mostly amused and flattered by the coverage from Krebs. They even give him email interviews sometimes. They know he can't really do anything to stop them. He's just a writer.

It's generally only the new or small-time folks, who get their egos bruised, that try to harass him. These folks are generally cowards and not rich or well-connected anyway.

Re: Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S

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post #24

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These criminals are not stealing all these credit cards for fun. It's to make money. They have money. Obviously they can throw $200 at someone just to troll him. They could pull together more if they really decided it was necessary. Money talks.

Online organized crime has been going on for over a decade, and Krebs has been covering it for that long too. He's quite well known in the online criminal underworld. If a well-resourced and ruthless criminal wanted Krebs dead, it would have already happened. Instead the high-end criminals seem to be mostly amused and flattered by the coverage from Krebs. They even give him email interviews sometimes. They know he ca…

Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't happen in the future. Reporters have died in the past from reporting on dangerous things. Here's a few: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...

As someone else has pointed out, you don't have to be some high up gangster to hire a hitman. Or even just show up and shoot someone.

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