Re:OPSEC critique of the Michigan Governor kidnap plot
by vmception on Saturday October 10, 2020 @07:51AM
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there is different OPSEC for different attack vectors
in the universe of dark web activities, most of them are not crimes and of the crimes most of those do not require stonewalling an eventual multi-jurisdictional state actor
there are just different OPSEC models, if we aren't talking about crimes its fine to talk on the open web about them, some of those OPSEC models would still accomplish thwarting the aforementioned threat model.
More seriously, there's an element of performative deterrence in the way stuff like this gets handled. Giving people without the experience to know it's nonsense the idea they can't do dark web crimes and get caught probably cuts down on the rate of people dipping a toe into the exciting world of dark web crimes, where they can for example learn how to not get caught and then talk on the open web about how much they know I guess? What kind of opsec is that?