Dark web child porn bust leads to 338 arrests worldwide
submitted 4 years ago by Mnemonic from (reuters.com)
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[–]Mnemonic[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (4 children)
Crypto is the opposite of anonymous, the blockchain is all transactions ever done. You can make it difficult to trace but to be reasonably secure you need mule-systems, just scrambling doesn't even bother the IRS if they caught a hint of suspicion.
Deep learning algorithms on the blockchain poop out suspicious 'flows' and the interesting ones get a follow up by [insert interested parties]. I won't be surprised if criminals use the transactions to seek out underling who to rob, as the xkcd goes, any encryption (from a BCwallet) can be broken with a $5 wrench [And that encryption has nothing to do with being anonymous/untraceable].
Though in this case they got the link to the darkwebsite via a convicted peadopile's computer and so got on the bitcoin payment trail etc.
[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (3 children)
I guess they used a "mixer" program though which is supposed to hide the chain of addresses so it's not traceable. But that obviously didn't work
[–]Mnemonic[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (2 children)
A mixer (I called it scrambler) just makes it 'difficult', they use the marketing term 'anonymous' to lure money for peeps.
Though I wouldn't share your guess.
[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago* (1 child)
I was using "I guess" in the sense of "this seems likely to be true" because it was reported elsewhere, sorry for the lack of clarity
[–]Mnemonic[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
Ah :p Yes, well, then I guess so too.
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