> The team’s roughly 30 members, who communicate mostly through Slack and weekly video calls, include staffers from... cloud service providers... online gaming companies... security researchers, academics... FBI agents and federal prosecutors. Do security professionals, including government agents, really use Slack to communicate sensitive information about investigations? Do they ever give any thought to the fact th…
>If I were a defendant on trial for running a DDoS service, I would ask my lawyer to subpoena Slack for those messages. Now that they've bragged about their parallel construction, it seems fair game to open up their Slack channel to discovery, just to make sure that the FBI really is following the "usual legal process." Gatrel got their Slack messages.
Re: A team of sleuths quietly hunting cyberattack-for-hire services
#11Gatrel also got a conviction and a 2 year bid. This doesn't seem like a matter of 'parallel construction' but instead FAFO.