Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts
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Re: Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts
#2I don't think this comment will contribute much, so please forgive that, but calling a "Collaboration between Europol and the Shadowserver Foundation" for "Euro cops" is probably the most Australian thing I've ever seen on the entire internet.
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cybe...
Re: Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts
#3I don't think this comment will contribute much, so please forgive that, but calling a "Collaboration between Europol and the Shadowserver Foundation" for "Euro cops" is probably the most Australian thing I've ever seen on the entire internet. https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cybe...
In my mind "euro cops" holds overtones of some a late-90s track-suit-and-nike shoes, bald shaven gabber rave robocop-from-amsterdam pastiche
Re: Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts
#4These burner phone numbers not exclusively used by criminals, a privacy-minded person would use those to make accounts on services that require a phone number (and sadly, it feels like there's a lot of these lately)
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#5I misinterpreted the title and thought the cops used 49M fake accounts to take down the network
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#6Is 49M a lot?
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#7“Euro Cop” sounds like Jean-Claude Van Damme movie.
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#8Is 49M a lot?
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#9Is 49M a lot?
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#10> The coordinated takedown, codenamed Operation SIMCARTEL, took place on October 10 in Latvia, as part of a joint investigation by police in the Baltic nation, Austria, Estonia and Finland.
Not the best way to see my country in the news, but oh well.
That said, I wish I could reasonably do something similar to what's possible with e-mails: where you can have one mailbox per account/company you want to do interaction with, like aliexpress@mydomain.com, paypal@mydomain.com, banking@mydomain.com and so on. I'd like to have one phone number per company or whatever that I have to interact with, so that if they sell my data to third parties and I suddenly start getting advertisement/spam calls, I can figure out exactly who was acting badly.