Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S

Re:Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S by gtrubetskoy on Friday October 16, 2015 @03:17PM (#10401459)

'(“cc” is a reference to credit cards)' - CC (and MUXACC1) is not a reference to credit cards, it's a reference to the Tsetse Fly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsetse_fly which spreads Sleeping Sickness - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_trypanosomiasis - for whatever reason it's part of the Russian folklore used as a metaphor for something particularly nasty.

Edit: (thanks rnovak!) apparently "cc" in thecc[dot]bz _is_ credit cards, though the CC in MUXACC1 is definitely a reference to Tsetse.

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Re:Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S by rnovak on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:00PM (#10401665)

Uh, he's referring to thecc[dot]bz which is a carding forum, which literally refers to credit cards (and is extremely common[1][2]). That excerpt is also nowhere near the MUXACC1 reference.

[1] http://www.acronymfinder.com/Credit-Card-(CC).html

[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=lGC2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT48&lpg=P...

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