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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by moeadham on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:57PM (#6484459)
Does anyone else feel that "FriendlyChemist" was just a set up/honeypot? (Whether US agency or foreign/Canadian)

1. Canadian spies set up "FriendlyChemist", hack into another vendor and get extortion material on DPR

2. "FriendlyChemist" tells "RedandWhite" (obviously the same person/agency) to contact DPR

3. "RedAndWhite" extorts American based DPR to pay for a murder that mysteriously does not happen in Canada

4. DPR then (stupidly?) pays "RedAndWhite" for fake ID documents from Canada, which mysteriously get stopped at the border

5. US agency arrests DPR on delivery of Fake ID's

6. There is no chance of entrapment since:

- Based on the Nature of TOR, we can never prove that "FriendlyChemist/RedAndWhite" are a police force (karma)

- They are most likely not a domestic force, but were working covertly with US agencies (cannot be subpoenaed). </pre>

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by fusiongyro on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @05:05PM (#6485376)
It's not entrapment unless the police induce the crime to be committed. Nobody forced him to "order a hit." Attempting a murder-for-hire is not something you can be tricked into doing.
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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday October 03, 2013 @10:56AM (#6489309)
I think one could be entrapped into a murder-for-hire.

Certain government authorities know you're acquainted with someone who's previously been fingered for murder-for-hire but never convicted.

The "authorities" call you and threaten to murder your family; you naturally seek back-up from your erstwhile acquaintance. The police ensure they give you just enough information to track their threat back to a "person" of their construction.

Boom. You're up on a rap of "conspiracy to commit first degree murder" (or whatever it's actually called in your jurisdiction).

Doesn't seem so impossibly far-fetched does it?

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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by fusiongyro on Thursday October 03, 2013 @03:41PM (#6491435)
It'd be a great movie plot. But yeah, still impossibly far-fetched. Besides that, the authorities have at that point gone way past entrapment.
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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday October 03, 2013 @04:21PM (#6491727)
Ish. I don't suppose it would be done but it seems it could be done.
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