Was anyone else long on Bitcoin Cash before today?

I am. One of my tendencies for complex topics is to proceed in very small increments, and clarify terminology.

To answer your question: No, dumb criminals of all stripes frequently do not make use of even basic infosec practices. Mediocre criminals, frustrate law enforcement but are eventually caught with focused efforts that usually find a break outside the technical domain.

Smart criminals basically evade identification and are at best detected and deterred.

Good infosec and cryptographic practices are achievable and basically unstoppable. This includes people sharing child porn, long before block chain.

 

The article and instance being discussed are not about payment. It is about index distribution and additionally there is a topic to discuss about embedding data in a chain itself.

 

Why dungeon?

I'm just saying that baddies have what they need to do what was discussed in the article with or without block chain and that cryto in general created LE challenges.

You assumed it was about payment, it seems (which would change the conversation greatly). Ain't my fault you didn't read gud

 

I will say this is a good example of the confusion and complexity in the block chain and cryptography domain. I forget that what may seem obvious may not be and what may be an important distinction to me isn't to others.

 

I don't know that payment is a thing for that so my answer is "I don't know".

Do you know that they do?

 

When I say "block chain" do you define that as equivalent to "crypto currency/payment"? I am making a distinction. So far, I haven't seen any evidence of payment for kid porn being a common practice, regardless of cryptocurrency or paypal, but I wouldn't know much as I do not have experience in financial crimes.

What I have seen, are dozens of different examples of criminals using tech in extremely creative ways to avoid identification. As you can imagine, many people at companies like Microsoft work on techniques to find illegal content like that and eliminate it and/or work with LE on prosecution/investigation.

Some of the techniques are cutting edge and really creative, because some of the criminals are very, very clever. I guarantee some are never found out.

 

Now you know...

https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/a...rticles/Template-Main&oref=r.search.yahoo.com

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/article...tcoin-users-are-associated-illegal-activity1/


Ride safe,
AAron

 

Where is the evidence/article about pedos using cryptocurrencies? The article was about block chain, the comment about "great the government will want to ban it" was about the article. My view is that Aaron used "cryptocurrencies" interchangeably with "block chains".

Maybe he didn't. Maybe he has information that they are being used for payment, but that isn't what the article was about. That also, isn't what I have been talking about.

 

I just posted an article above.

Ride safe,
AAron

 

Cool. Reading.

 

Yeah, maybe he isn't wrong. I'll need to read the articles and backing studies.

As I said, if we are talking about block chain then things are vastly different. What I should have said is that crypto currencies are only a tiny portion of the overall challenge cryptography presents to LE.

I knee jerked as there is more misinformation about bc/cc than there is good information and I have experience with LE asking for ridiculous things during an investigation, related to technology.

 

I agree. (that was kinda my point)

I got caught in the same confusion I called out later. Even the article mentions somewhat confuses the topic.

 

Or Jim.