US Government court document reveals deceased AlphaBay admin was forum member
07-20-2017, 10:28 PM
Reminds me of the whole Silk Road take down.
FBI's Story of Finding Silk Road's Server Sounds a Lot Like Hacking
To hear the FBI tell it, tracking down the secret server behind the billion-dollar drug market known as the Silk Road was as easy as knocking on a door. The bureau's latest court filing in the case describes how the hidden site accidentally revealed its location to anyone who visited its login page, thanks to a software misconfiguration.
But the technical side of the security community, who have long tracked the dark web's experiments in evading law enforcement, don't buy that simple story. They read the FBI's statement differently: as a carefully worded admission that it didn't knock on the Silk Road's door so much as hack its way in.
https://www.wired.com/2014/09/fbi-silk-r...-question/
FBI's Story of Finding Silk Road's Server Sounds a Lot Like Hacking
To hear the FBI tell it, tracking down the secret server behind the billion-dollar drug market known as the Silk Road was as easy as knocking on a door. The bureau's latest court filing in the case describes how the hidden site accidentally revealed its location to anyone who visited its login page, thanks to a software misconfiguration.
But the technical side of the security community, who have long tracked the dark web's experiments in evading law enforcement, don't buy that simple story. They read the FBI's statement differently: as a carefully worded admission that it didn't knock on the Silk Road's door so much as hack its way in.
https://www.wired.com/2014/09/fbi-silk-r...-question/