Re:When Undercover Credit Card Buys Go Bad
by ianhawes on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @10:53AM
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10 years ago, maybe, but nowadays federal-level LE runs extremely high opsec. Theres no way they would've run something like this from a government IP, let alone a non-virtualized machine.
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Re:When Undercover Credit Card Buys Go Bad
by sandworm101 on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:00AM
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But how many investigators are actual feds? There are literally hundreds, thousands even, of US police agencies. Most any one of those can setup a few computers and start looking for online crime. This guy could be from a local department of five officers, not an unusual situation in the US.