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In a first, the US has used a nationwide dark web bust to arrest more than 35 black market dealers.
[...] A slew of agencies (the Department of Justice, Homeland Security Investigations, the Secret Service, the DEA and the Postal Inspection Service) have announced the first-ever national-level undercover bust of dark web outfits selling drugs, weapons and other contraband. HSI agents pretended to be money launderers on multiple sites in an operation that resulted in arrests for "more than" 35 vendors and seizures worth $23.6 million.
Among the seizures were opioids, over 100 guns (including a grenade launcher), $3.6 million in gold and cash, and 2,000 bitcoins. Law enforcement also grabbed bitcoin mining devices and cars bought using the ill-gotten income. Officials didn't name all the those facing charges, but examples ranged in age from 21 to 34 and included multiple people in New York and California.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/26/undercover-dark-web-bust-leads-to-35-arrests/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Wednesday June 27 2018, @04:26PM (4 children)
Does Qubes OS [qubes-os.org] have any telemetry spy crap?
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by bryan on Wednesday June 27 2018, @07:09PM (1 child)
Telemetry is not just limited to the OS, popular applications often include them, often starting out via a more innocent reason.
For example, the popular media player VLC includes an "Allow metadata network access" checkbox that defaults to true. With this option enabled, certain metadata about what you are watching will "leak out" when it queries internet servers asking for more info about the media file.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 27 2018, @07:19PM
Every update of VLC asks you if you want to enable metadata access, which is arguably better behavior than other applications that would just choose it for you. Can't confirm whether it defaults to true because I don't feel like reinstalling it.
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(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday June 27 2018, @07:13PM
I don't know a lot about Qubes, but nothing is immune to social engineering.
Cops pose as criminals on the network, and greedy fucks can't help but play with them. No telemetry spy crap necessary.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Thursday June 28 2018, @12:26AM
MorphOS on a PowerMac G5 is probably OK...