[FairfieldLife] Re: FBI arrests Silk Road suspect

2013-10-05 Thread turquoiseb
--- 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
http://users.rider.edu/~suler/zenstory/isthatso.html





Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FBI arrests Silk Road suspect

2013-10-05 Thread Share Long
Love this story, thanks, turq. ha ha, is that so?





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--- 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 





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[FairfieldLife] RE: FBI arrests Silk Road suspect

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[FairfieldLife] Re: FBI arrests Silk Road suspect

2013-10-03 Thread turquoiseb
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

2013-10-03 Thread turquoiseb
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.  :-)





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