Interesting Engineering: Law Enforcement Secretly Ran Part of the Dark Web, Again

[Karl]

[old]

The article describes many many arrests made by producing or compromising
fake insecure dark web systems.

I wonder if there is news on the freeing of victims of human trafficking
somewhere.

The below quotes relate to possible differing goals between law enforcement
and encrypted web3 apps.

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However, beyond arresting bad guys, the point of these operations was to
make criminals feel that there is no safe platform or a method of
communication for them, hopefully dissuading them from ever partaking in
illicit activities in the first place.

The move was a very smart one by the FBI as the organization essentially
managed to break encryption without having to actually break encryption.
>From now on, criminals will be forced to wonder whether an encrypted chat
service
<https://interestingengineering.com/11-cryptographic-methods-that-marked-history-from-the-caesar-cipher-to-enigma-code-and-beyond>
is
actually legit or just another FBI honeypot. And that should have all of us
sleeping a little sounder at night.
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