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No, unfortunately not. For that I just use an USRP to alert on nearby TETRA handsets, not super reliable though.

There are UK companies with a similar commercial products https://www.targetblueye.co.uk https://www.pythondetectors.com

These are absolutely game-changing while driving, makes spotting cop cars a breeze.

Those sites are fake. Just like the sites selling weapons are fake. The sites selling credit card dumps with pins are fake. The sites selling hitman services are fake.

If they find some idiot willing to send them money to "buy a child sex slave" they will just perpetually extort them with that.

Only places where these sorts of markets can actually work are places like Syria where they're backed by some sort of local authorities like IS.

>Do you really want to visit this site?

I'm fascinated because I track things like this for a living, but have never heard of anything similar to what was described here.

Maybe? Never seen it, curious if you have links to share.

Go on then, link this "dark web" website where they sell people.

What do you even mean by "dark web"? Stuff like this definitely doesn't exist on the onionland.

> there are actually online marketplaces, similar to how Amazon is for goods, to sell humans!

This should be easy to prove. Closest I can think of is some Telegram groups you might find in places like Syria, but that hardly warrants the Amazon comparison.

Accelerationism is also bad, yes. A rather nihilistic way of looking at things.

There are tradeoffs to cowardice, yeah.

Yes, the article does not give a clear answer. However, simply looking at the text of the CFAA leaves little doubt that you'd be in violation if Netflix clearly communicates that you aren't allowed to log in with someone else's account.

It's hard to imagine how an account holder could authorise you to access Netflix in a situation where Netflix explicitly communicates to you that such account sharing is forbidden.

> Regular crooks don't get the same treatment of walking out of jail before actually paying posting the bond money. Usually with a 10% fee for the bondsman

Bail bondsmen basically do not exist in federal courts.

But sure, regular crooks generally don't end up in federal courts. I think that's probably where this confusion stems from.

If you read the last line of my previous comment you will find a short-form refutation.

Here's a longer explanation by a former federal prosecutor, current criminal defence attorney https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-...

Yeah, my main point is that it remains far from clear as to how the government would approach a situation like the 2016 DAO hack.

>“Exploiting a smart contract” isn’t a specific offense, and some instances might be legal.

Exactly, there does not seem to be easy catch-alls here like wire fraud or unauthorized access.

It's worth noting that the indictment seems to focus on very specific technical details of how this hack happened, rather than trying to suggest that hacking smart contracts would be broadly illegal.

It seems that exploiting a smart contract in a way that doesn't involve market manipulation might still be fine, or not. Who knows?

This seems like a particularly twisted take. Poor people get excessively long sentences so SBF should too? What a messed up line of thinking.

A healthy take would be "Hopefully everyone gets a reasonable sentence, SBF included"

This has been refuted over and over again by people who aren't entirely clueless.

What's even supposed to be the logic here? Where do you think that "$250M" figure comes? Why are you assigning some special meaning to it? It's pulled out of the ass of the very same judge who granted SBF bail.

The FBI is a completely different entity which exists below the congress, the FBI can't really threaten you with the congress.

How come? Assuming multiple people have had access to the keys, it's hardly a given that you'd be caught.

Just use Tails or similar to transfer the money to a wallet you control, and don't touch it until many years later when you've moved to another country.

The $ figure where it starts to make sense for a FBI agent to flee to China or Russia probably isn't all that high. You could even pick from a much longer list of countries if you were patient enough to wait until you gain citizenship, many countries won't extradite their nationals.

It takes forever for DVLA to remove a car and they'll leave a notice first (unless it's UK registered and untaxed)

>but at least in my experience, when opening a bank account in person, they do diligent checks

Most banks don't even have UV lights, not that fake IDs don't usually have decent UV markings anyway. Hardly very diligent.

>for non-German cards they even have a database how different nations' ID cards should look like and what the security markings are.

As do essentially all banks in the world, doesn't save you though. Many European IDs (Romanian, Greek for example) do not have any meaningful security features, Romanian IDs can look completely different depending on which day and which city they're printed in and there's no reference guide for this.

Even a good enough German fake won't cost much https://telegra.ph/ID-Cloning-Only-12-17 The hologram isn't perfect, but that'll work at any bank.

>Video-Ident aka holding your ID card into your webcam is indeed vulnerable, and banks like N26 got in really hot water, which forced them to ramp up their anti-fraud measures to a degree even legitimate customers got massively impacted [1].

Pretty much any fake ID that'll pass Video-Ident will generally work at the bank too.

>The classic scams are the majority, and yet even these they yield the scammers only something like 13 million euros a year [2], that's laughable compared to the amount Americans lose, even if one assumes that only a tenth of the cases gets reported at all.

This is totally wrong, there are individual people running car-selling scams on mobile.de netting more than that.

>And again: entire classes of scams like "I got arrested and need bail money" or "I was involved in a traffic accident and need to pay the hospital cash advance for treatment" don't work here because we don't have cash bail or bills from hospitals and people know that. If you would try this scam on any European, they'd laugh you off because they know that this doesn't exist.

Those scams are common in the US and UK, but they only make up a small part of the $ losses. The bulk of the losses comes in the form of people losing all of their savings as their bank account is emptied.

If Netflix changes their mind and adds a banner on the login page telling you otherwise, it suddenly becomes unauthorised access.

As far as I understand, it probably is https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/take-two-ninth-circuit...

This seems like a clear-cut example of unauthorised access, at least if Netflix chooses to clearly communicate that you aren't allowed to use someone else's account. https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/computer-misuse-act#_T...

Probably the same in most of the world.

You don't see how that's an appeal to authority, I don't see how my comment violated the site guidelines. I wasn't name-calling or swiping at anyone, I was merely refuting the parents appeal to authority.

No plates=/=untaxed. Councils do not have power to remove untaxed vehicles, DVLA would have to do it (they won't).

Breached.vc is not a scammy site.

Writing "raidforums" does not increase pagerank.

> actually useful identity cards

It costs like 100 euros to buy a fake ID that'll work at any bank in Germany. This is a bizarre trope oft-repeated on HN by techies who think that banks actually verify chipped ID cards, they do not. And even if they did, they have to accept a plenty of EU IDs which do not have chips.

Google and look at how a Greek ID card looks like, it's literally a piece of paper.

> opening fake bank accounts for mules very difficult

Are you being sarcastic? https://crimemarket.is/ ctrl-f for BD, there are literally hundreds of people offering german bank accounts.

On the same forum you will find people selling Kleinanzeigen accounts, and DHL insiders creating fake tracking IDs for Kleinanzeigen scams.

> almost all scams rely on personal contact instead - the most common scheme is fake policemen, where the callcenter will call elderly people and pressure them to go to their bank to draw cash, then a "policeman" shows up at the door and takes the cash.

This isn't true at all. Those scams happen, but they're the minority. You can search for "OB Cashing" on crimemarket, that's the term of art they use for calling up grandmothers and convincing them to empty their bank accounts.

>Their scams are purposefully asinine. It's not profitable to spend time and effort into tricking the wise into an unwise act. It's far more profitable searching for the unwise to act in kind. So when you throw your hands up asking "Who would fall for that!?" The answer is typically: Someone who'd be willing to buy a gift card or share bank account info. This contradicts your last point that a given locale is more or less likely to be scammed given the native language.

You're severely underestimating the success rate of these calls.

> Typically it's $20 here, $100 there. Again, volume

This is perplexing, even the gift card scams don't target such low amounts. The only logical conclusion is that we're talking about completely different kinds of scams.

The kinds of scams targeting amounts you speak of tend to be slightly less obvious ones, selling bullshit services and actually running credit cards. These operations often aren't even necessarily criminal, beyond perhaps the spammy part.

> You hear about the big "wins" a lot (Grandma scammed for 50k+) but those are outliers.

Nah, those are the bulk of this $10B figure. Tricking a grandma to install teamviewer and emptying her account isn't much of a challenge.

Can't edit comments that old, but I feel like my first sentence was perfectly appropriate given the parents appeal to authority ("I built telecommunications systems / software for some time").