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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by charwalker on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:29AM (#23714358)
The US created a fake bank to catch drug runners and cartel bosses. What's to say this isn't an state intelligence backed company created not to sell a product but to be sold to criminals then listened to until warrants were signed?

I haven't looked into the service at all so could be totally off.

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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by pas on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:38AM (#23714457)
Wow. Do you happen to have more details about that fake bank honeypot?
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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by taylorfinley on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:45PM (#23715918)
There's an excellent episode of the npr podcast Planet Money that covers this story: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/694548245
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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by charwalker on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:02PM (#23783761)
That's where I heard it, yeah.
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