Documents Confirm Cybercrime Site ‘DarkMarket’ Was An FBI Sting
The Constable on October 14th, 2008
According to a recent article at the Wired “Threat Level” blog, DarkMarket.ws, an online watering hole for thousands of identify thieves, hackers and credit card swindlers, has been secretly run by an FBI cybercrime agent for the last two years, until its voluntary shutdown earlier this month, according to documents unearthed by a German radio network.
At least this explains why so many sites with illegal content are never shut down by law enforcement, lawsuits, etc. They must all be FBI stings. We recommend you stay away from sites like The Pirate Bay, Ultimate-Guitar.com, Songsterr, Pianofiles.com, Soundsbox, etc.
Yes, I’m being sarcastic… but still at least there’d be a reason that illegal sites (or sites designed to enable people to break the law) are allowed to proliferate relatively undeterred.
Well, except for Textbook Torrents which did get shut down.
