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Police from around the world shut down the biggest active black market on the dark web this month, according to announcements from law enforcement agencies in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands released on Friday.
Wall Street Market, as the black market site was known, was the target of a 1.5-year-long multinational investigation. Three Germans were arrested on April 23 and 24 inside Germany for their alleged role in creating and administering the site that sold illegal drugs, documents, weapons, and data.
"WSM was one of the largest and most voluminous darknet marketplaces of all time," FBI Special Agent Leroy Shelton wrote in the criminal complaint released on Friday.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/one-of-the-largest-dark-net-markets-of-all-time-falls-1834511568
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @04:34PM (9 children)
Blame it on capitalism running amok. No respect for traditions, no longer a Thieves Guild to keep the rules and arbitrate disputes, not even a union to represent the petty thieves.
All monopolized by banksters, multi-nationals and lobby groups. And politicians.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 06 2019, @05:26PM (6 children)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 'Thief' one of the oldest professions? It has to rank right up there with prostitution. Capitalism is a comparatively new phenomena.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday May 06 2019, @05:37PM
Capitalism is merely a new name for a phenomenon that goes all the way back to the first signs of life, if not the Big Bang. Trade is ubiquitous.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @05:41PM (2 children)
That would be a full time job.
You make it so easy it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @05:54PM (1 child)
So says the nameless fool who contributes nothing to the conversation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @07:37PM
So, are you Pot or Kettle?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @06:38PM (1 child)
Everyone knows the oldest profession - prostitute.
However, the contenders for SECOND oldest profession are:
"Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly with orders to reconnoitre the country. The two men came to Jericho and went to the house of a prostitute named Rahab..."
- Spying
- Politics (the people that ordered the spies)
- Motherhood (because of the oldest profession)
- Funeral arranger (because of the prostitution and spies)
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:33AM
You're only going back as far as city states. Go farther and I bet the whole thief thing rises to the top. It isn't that much different to take stuff from nature that you need or want, than it is to take stuff from people who took stuff from nature.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday May 06 2019, @08:58PM
> Blame it on capitalism running amok. No respect for traditions, no longer a Thieves Guild
> to keep the rules and arbitrate disputes, not even a union to represent the petty thieves.
Maybe the gig got too big and they ran out of receipts ?
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Tuesday May 07 2019, @12:54AM
Yes there is, it's not always in session, but it's still there.
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