24 nabbed in U.S.-led cybercrime finance sting

Crime Jun. 27, 2012 - 05:07AM JST ( 5 )

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saru_auJun. 27, 2012 - 09:38AM JST

tip of the ice berg i bet
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REMzzzJun. 27, 2012 - 10:00AM JST

The case involved law enforcement agencies in Britain, Australia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Macedonia and Norway, officials said.

But not Ukraine, Russia or Romania, where all the action is.

Soon all the crews will move to the so-called darknets, on T[he]O[nion]R[router]. And you can't seize the Onions! **cries crocodile tears for FBI**

Look, i don't support fraud, but the other side of the coin is personal privacy. Governments can sometimes get a little heavy-handed with Internet-related stuff
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lostrune2Jun. 27, 2012 - 01:54PM JST

Sure, tell everyone what the site is and how they did it, haha!

Now if only Anonymous would hack into those other carder sites...........
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FadamorJun. 28, 2012 - 03:04AM JST

Now if only Anonymous would hack into those other carder sites..........

Won't happen. Why hack the ones that got you started in the first place?

Soon all the crews will move to the so-called darknets, on T[he]O[nion]R[router]. And you can't seize the Onions! cries crocodile tears for FBI

Save your crocodile tears. Federal law enforcement has ALWAYS had the ability to track people down over the internet - even if the people use those so-called "anonymous proxies". It's just normally too much of a hassle to do so given the potential benefit. If you make yourself enough of a nuisance to the nation, however, they WILL be knocking on your door.
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REMzzzJun. 28, 2012 - 05:23AM JST

Save your crocodile tears. Federal law enforcement has ALWAYS had the ability to track people down over the internet - even if the people use those so-called "anonymous proxies". It's just normally too much of a hassle to do so given the potential benefit. If you make yourself enough of a nuisance to the nation, however, they WILL be knocking on your door.

You don't know what TOR is?

Even the CIA and related agencies have used it, tested it and found it to be adequate. It's based on the P2P principle, and is much too hard to break, even for them. Recently a "weakness" was found where people using it could be traced, but that was only when they were using TOR for downloading a large file via a torrenting app. Most users just use it to surf the net, and others are able to host a web server that feeds its traffic through the "onion" network of TOR and uses a .tor domain name, accessible only to TOR users.

And the more users are in the network, the harder it is to crack and faster it gets. Human rights activists in China and Iran use it to post to their blogs and access the unfiltered internet. They have yet to be arrested.

So don't judge TOR before you take a good look at it :) ..it's nothing like those proxies, which are centralized corporate entities. All it takes is a court order to know who is behind one, which is how they arrested Topiary. The downside of TOR is only that it is slow, adding a whole minute to your requests when the system is busy, but on a good day, it's only a 10 second delay.

TOR is a powerful tool that can give anonymity to many people, both good and bad, but mostly good. One day you might need it yourself. I don't advocate that anyone use it to do anything illegal, however, it's the last resort for those who used to operate out in the open... much like the Yakuza, with its storefronts and business cards. But they are all being driven underground, and the "underground" belongs to us, the people who use TOR when we feel like we deserve some privacy. We are the same ones who complain each time Facebook changes our privacy settings without asking, or when a major corporation saves unencrypted credit card info to its servers, when even it they encrypted it before saving, it it against the law.