s3raphita sez: > > Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road founder wasn't exactly great at > covering his tracks. He attached his name, photo, and > personal e-mail address to Silk Road business! What's > up with some people? > > I see he also anticipated my plan for an assassination bureau: > he allegedly tried to take out a hit on someone who was > threatening to reveal customer information. > > By the way, re my prospectus for The Assassination Bureau : > I am assuming that the secret service agents who monitor > internet traffic have a sense of humour. Don't want my > door kicked in in the early hours.
I haven't been following all this, but you remind me that I wanted to comment earlier that sadly your idea of The Assassination Bureau is old news. Reality has been there, done that. For many years, police have been aware of underground networks of assassins for hire. They started back after the Vietnam era, and the appearance then of magazines like "Soldier Of Fortune." In the old days they would post ads in the print section of these magazines containing veiled offers to whack someone for money. When the Internet dawned, this network moved to it, often on the "Soldier Of Fortune" website itself, in its Comments section. In reality, most of the people placing these ads were wack jobs who'd never killed anyone in their lives. But a few seem to have been making a living at it. I can recall half a dozen news reports in which someone was being accused of murder, having hired a hit man to do it through one of these sites. Le monde est fou, fou, fou...
