History Repeats Itself--Alexandre Cazes ("alpha02") Taken Down By SAME OpSec Mistake as Ross/DPR

If you want to know what Alexandre Cazes' number one key mistake was, it was this post HERE.

No Parallel Construction was even needed in this case.

Cazes/alpha02 made literally the exact same mistake as Ross/Frosty

 

Highlights of the above:

 

Perhaps the next person that decides to code and admin an international drug/fraud market will decide to read the fucking upcoming Wired article on this guy.

Laundering tens of millions of dollars in BTC isn't an easy task. It demands a measure of subtlety and operational ingenuity that you simply cannot possess if you are so foolish so as to think you can careen down the streets of Bangkok in a brand new Lamborghini Aventador LP-700-4 after doxxing yourself on a fucking tech website.

 

Thus far, history has shown that Darknet Market operators usually seem to be this weird blend of technically astute but socially retarded.

Perhaps it's the nature of the profession. Nor is it a coincidence about the age of these people.

There's a certain level of intelligence needed, as a prerequisite; to even attempt to run a market like that.

But on the flip side, they must also be naïve enough to underestimate the skills of their adversaries.

-RIP-

 

--cooli0h


Comments


[34 Points] KnMn:

The other way of looking at this is that once again LEO spin the incompetent criminal story so that they needn't tell the overpowered government agency story and somehow we're all buying it again. I can't understand why so many of us are taking our enemy on their word particularly when said enemy's sole reason for existing is to protect secrets.


[5 Points] None:

I believe that his mistake was attaching his email to the forum software that was used to send reset emails for the message board component of the site. That was what nailed him. The headers on those emails had his personal email in them.


[6 Points] None:

Nope history repeats itself in the fact this is the Same as the FBIs last "we hacked the SR1 login capatcha " . It's just their bullshit excuse for some shady shitbthe NSA did.


[5 Points] None:

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[2 Points] newdarknet:

you guys are all buying this hook line and sinker - how hard do you think it would be for LE to subpoena archive.org and have them include this information or alter this archive for them? Fucking easy. All these FBI shills trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes "Don't worry TOR is safe, just use proper opsec!! They only catch the low hanging fruit - if you sent your address unencrypted you can keep ordering drugs unless you are a MAJOR player" Such a contradiction!

I guarantee you every single address they find on that website will be flagged and no matter how much opsec you have, TOR itself is compromised since inception (as well as i2p). Do you even know who developed TOR? LOL


[1 Points] throwaway0905161:

It's probably another trap setup by Feds. Make people think that as long as they don't make a simple mistake like this, then you should be able to run a market. Then they use their tor exploit and catch em.