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I don't think the mob has the skills to perform an operation on this scale for an uncertain payoff. They might be willing to pay someone else for information about someone they happen to be interested in. But a fishing expedition that is outside their area of expertise. Not likely.

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It's also just WAY too much work to kill an informant using that method, unless it's a big time boss. In which case they'd use other ways to try and skip trace them instead of setting up an enormous botnet of hacked school networks, which doesn't sound trivial whatsoever. This is the mob, not a black hat hacker shop with billions of dollars to spend on SIGINT.

You think mobsters can't learn black hat infosec?

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