[FairfieldLife] Re: FBI arrests Silk Road suspect
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FBI arrests Silk Road suspect
Love this story, thanks, turq. ha ha, is that so? From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:34 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: FBI arrests Silk Road suspect --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Bob, maybe what we need is not a group hug, but a group apology ha ha! Is that so? http://users.rider.edu/~suler/zenstory/isthatso.html
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FBI arrests Silk Road suspect
[FairfieldLife] RE: FBI arrests Silk Road suspect
[FairfieldLife] Re: FBI arrests Silk Road suspect
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...
[FairfieldLife] Re: FBI arrests Silk Road suspect
s3raphita sez: Re 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.:I didn't know that! But then I don't subscribe to Soldier of Fortune. I didn't subscribe, but I certainly read it from time to time. It's probably a guy thing. That, and growing up of draft age in that era, and seeing many friends go to Vietnam and come back basket cases. Some of those basket cases wanted to put the skills they had learned in the Army -- killing people -- to use, and get paid for it. Of course, my point was more about how feasible it would be in our connected age to set up as a crime lord and yet be untraceable by the police. It certainly seems to be getting closer. If you can act as a middleman for others to commit the crime and yet take your cut without worrying about the law it sounds like the much-sought after (by crime fiction writers) Perfect Murder. It's a complex situation, but I would be willing to bet that such Internet crime lords already exist, and to some extent free of worrying about being caught by the police or the Feds. Take modern drug lords, for example. They're richer than the cops trying to chase them, and they can hire better hackers than the guvmint can because they pay more. But many of them manage to get caught anyway. Go figure. A lot of them get caught through sheer hubris, but a few get caught because the guvmint hackers figured out their communications encryption before their own hackers had noticed. There's meat for a TV series in all of this. I mean, the nitty- gritty of the War On Drugs is being fought by nerds on both sides of the border. :-)