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Re:A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? by Miner49er on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:36PM (#22291848)
EgotisticalGiraffe was the JS embedded in Freedom Hosting's web pages, which is mentioned by the article. Are you saying they hacked the site and inserted the JS? I assumed that was inserted after de-anonymizing the server and seizing it.

A Wired article on it:

https://www.wired.com/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/

Slides:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140413004837/http://cryptome.o...

A breakdown of the malware:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140417081750/http://ghowen.me/...

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