U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight
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U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight
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Re: U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight
#2I'm curious how they attacked this network -- I'd assume the payment side is still the easiest, and they could look for some patterns and then set up physical surveillance at WU or other locations to catch cash transactions.
Re: U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight
#3Wired Article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/online-drug-market-...
Cali DA press release: http://www.justice.gov/usao/cac/Pressroom/2012/045.html
Full indictment (66 pg. pdf): http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/04/WILLEM...
Re: U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight
#4I'm curious how they attacked this network -- I'd assume the payment side is still the easiest, and they could look for some patterns and then set up physical surveillance at WU or other locations to catch cash transactions.
> accepting payment through PayPal
Uh. How did they expect to remain anonymous with a PayPal account?
Re: U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight
#5No way, "high-end marijuana". Crazy. Extremely dangerous!
Re: U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight
#6That's a shame. These guys' lives are going to be seriously messed up by this, and from the drug list, it looks like they were selling fairly ethical stuff; according to the article, they sold "LSD, ecstasy, fentanyl, mescaline ketamine, DMT and high-end marijuana".
Re: U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight
#75,200 orders valued, in total, at $1M. Over a ~2 year period. That's it? Hardly seems like much of a story. Particularly since Tor is of limited use when your system depends on electronic payment systems.
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#8No way, "high-end marijuana". Crazy. Extremely dangerous!
It's dangerous to compete with state-protected real drug cartels.
In all seriousness... does anyone think the present-day prohibition racket isn't just as corrupt as what was going on in the 1920s? Drug Enforcement Agency... who do you think they're enforcing for?
It's almost impossible that it wouldn't be that corrupt. There is just too much freaking money involved, the stakes too high, for massive numbers of people to not be on the take.
Re: U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight
#9I'm curious how they attacked this network -- I'd assume the payment side is still the easiest, and they could look for some patterns and then set up physical surveillance at WU or other locations to catch cash transactions.
> accepting payment through PayPal Uh. How did they expect to remain anonymous with a PayPal account?
hahaha...seriously? with PayPal? i suppose it could (maybe) be done with prepaid credit cards, but still.
Re: U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight
#10That's a shame. These guys' lives are going to be seriously messed up by this, and from the drug list, it looks like they were selling fairly ethical stuff; according to the article, they sold "LSD, ecstasy, fentanyl, mescaline ketamine, DMT and high-end marijuana".
> it looks like they were selling fairly ethical stuff; according to the article, they sold "LSD, ecstasy, fentanyl, mescaline ketamine, DMT and high-end marijuana"
"Fentanyl is approximately 100 times more potent than morphine, with 100 micrograms of fentanyl approximately equivalent to 10 mg of morphine and 75 mg of pethidine (meperidine) in analgesic activity."[1]