Taking Out Illegal Website Operations

Contextual BackdropAnonymous was a noisy performance art insurgency in 2011 and 2012 but the prosecution of the Paypal 14, the fifty day LulzSec rampage that was in large part an FBI operation, the arrest of several high profile leaders, and finally the recent indictment of the Operation Payback 13 have all combined to thwart any further use of the brand. The activists went one direction, the grifters and hackers went another, and the FBI declared victory.  Video (above): 2011  animated introduction to Bitcoin, made possible with donations from the Bitcoin community.For More on Terrorism and the Information Age (Cyberterrorism)Cyber Crime Nexus: Liberty Reserve, Freedom Hosting and Silk RoadThere are have been three other events in the last four months that received much less press, but which are far more important in the scheme of global cybercrime, at least in the western hemisphere.For More on Transnational Crime and Terrorism / Organized CrimeLiberty…

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Neal Rauhauser

Software developer, network engineer, small/medium voice/video/data carrier plant engineer. Currently working with social and other network data using Maltego, Gephi, Sentinel Visualizer, Splunk....