Saturday, October 18, 2008

The DarkMarket Side


You know, of course, that the internet is a sewage dump of porn, spam, and other unedifying garbage. It isn't so often that you get an inside look at the Underworld that operates throughout the world on the World Wide Web.

Maybe you don't want to know. Perhaps it is enough to know that you can
Sleep Tight Tonight;
Your FBI Is Awake.

Wired News has this article about a recent sting operation carried out by a cyberfunction unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sting was worldwide, and hints at how the FBI has to work with the law enforcement agencies of various countries in order to close the deal.

Read it here.

A little taste:

The FBI almost certainly closed DarkMarket in preparation for a global wave of arrests that will unfold in the next month or so. The site was likely shuttered to avoid an Agatha Christie scenario in which a diminishing pool of cybercrooks are free to speculate about why they're disappearing one-by-one like the hapless dinner guests in Ten Little Indians.
I love it. Agatha Christie. The FBI reads crime novels?

3 comments:

Lutheran Lucciola said...

Great articles, this one and the one above. Wonder if my ID was in the site that was busted!

Your new family picture is nice. Your daughter looks like an adult, holy crap.

Bruce Gee said...

Holy crap, I think it's the glasses.

Yeah, we clean up nice, don't we?

Bruce Gee said...

Holy crap, I think it's the glasses.

Yeah, we clean up nice, don't we? Thanks for your kind comments.