Tracking the Silk Road 2.0 Mole

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/tracking-cirrus-is-this-the-silk-road-20-mole


Comments


[9 Points] honestlyimeanreally:

Never hire anyone to help run an illegal hidden service that you don't trust your life with... Also why do people keep registering shit in their own names? Christ!


[7 Points] 900290290:

Somewhat related: http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/06/secret_service?currentPage=all there have been a lot of plants like Cirrus throughout the carding scene, similar methods being used to bust open the Darknet.


[1 Points] noiro777:

One interesting thing from this article was that Cirrus was believed to be a woman by the Silk Road 2.0 staff.


[3 Points] Deafcunt:

Thanks for the link.

Man oh man, id love to read that partial backup of the admin forum that DoctorClu provided. Hopefully in time...


[2 Points] jrb450:

Seems to me that a better vetting process is required for moderators and others in crucial roles. Yeah, what's up with server registration in your own name?


[1 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

However, tracing these bitcoins is impossible.

Hear that, everybody? The cops think tracing bitcoins is impossible. Let's keep it that way.


[1 Points] ciphersexual:

Thanks for posting this. It was really driving me nuts reading the way Tang refers to Cirrus as "they." Now I get it.


[1 Points] earthmoonsun:

I don't really understand. What's the advantage for LE to have a forum mod? As far as I udnerstood they didn't know about location of servers, no access to the bitcoins, and all the interesting infos.