[old] The article describes many many arrests made by producing or compromising fake insecure dark web systems.
I wonder if there is news on the freeing of victims of human trafficking somewhere. The below quotes relate to possible differing goals between law enforcement and encrypted web3 apps. > However, beyond arresting bad guys, the point of these operations was to make criminals feel that there is no safe platform or a method of communication for them, hopefully dissuading them from ever partaking in illicit activities in the first place. The move was a very smart one by the FBI as the organization essentially managed to break encryption without having to actually break encryption. >From now on, criminals will be forced to wonder whether an encrypted chat service <https://interestingengineering.com/11-cryptographic-methods-that-marked-history-from-the-caesar-cipher-to-enigma-code-and-beyond> is actually legit or just another FBI honeypot. And that should have all of us sleeping a little sounder at night.
