Educational background of markets' founders.

What would the educational background of persons or teams who are behind the big markets be ? What level of technical expertise would they have ? What kind of a team would it take to establish a reliable market such as Evolution or Alphabay ? I am speculating these teams are rounded up very well to include computer/electrical engineers to design own ships, penetration testers, software engineers and various IT personnel. At least that would be the case in case the darknet industry is taken over by organised crime (ex: Russian mafia) and not individuals.

What do you think about this ?


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[3 Points] None:

I'm thinking they're self-taught, like most proficient IT people are. If the site is based out of Russia or E. Europe, (like AB) you can bet your ass that organized crime has a hand in it. I doubt it's an equal partnership between the people running and maintaining the site (I'm talking about AB here). More than likely they are just paid employees on a salary with the gangsters on top reaping the profits.


[5 Points] octomarvel:

I am speculating these teams are rounded up very well to include computer/electrical engineers to design own ships, penetration testers, software engineers and various IT personnel.

Umm...

to design ships...

Umm..?

ships...

Arrrrgggghhh, they're onto us mateys.

Shut 'er down.

=)


[5 Points] anon1901:

They all live in there parents basement, and never leave but to fuck escorts in dirty hotel rooms.

What a life, I'm kinda jealous.


[3 Points] blockmains:

Verto: Master of scamming

Kimble: Honorary doctorate in vanishing without a trace.


[1 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

Do you remember the kid who ran flo market from his school's IT room?

They are websites built by web designers, who are ten-a-penny. They bend over backwards at first just to get a chance to hang out with drug dealers and provide a service, offering to include any feature we ask for, like alphabay when it was new.

Before you know it, they're bossing drug dealers around and telling them they can't have their money.

Like alphabay.


[1 Points] noshoppn:

Perhaps a decent amount of higher education - maybe not in computer science - and then self-taught the dark net shit. That makes most sense to me.