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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: maxhavelaar on January 12, 2013, 04:27 pm

Title: Interpol "Project Drug.net - to tackle growing drug trafficking via internet
Post by: maxhavelaar on January 12, 2013, 04:27 pm
 Project Drug.net – to tackle the growing area of drug trafficking via the Internet. Having achieved its initial aim of creating a global network of specialists, this Project now concentrates on supporting ongoing operations in the field.

The previous text was the only thing i could find about this project on the internet, its been around since 2009.

http://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas/Drugs/Projects

...creating a global network of specialists, this Project now concentrates on supporting ongoing operations in the field...

when was this, and what are ongoing operations? who are these 'specialists'?



Title: Re: Interpol "Project Drug.net - to tackle growing drug trafficking via internet
Post by: nanpa2001 on January 12, 2013, 04:40 pm
Sounds like a load of hot air.
Title: Re: Interpol "Project Drug.net - to tackle growing drug trafficking via internet
Post by: b0lixtrader on January 12, 2013, 04:44 pm
I believe this is old news and has been talked about here a while ago.
Title: Re: Interpol "Project Drug.net - to tackle growing drug trafficking via internet
Post by: kmfkewm on January 12, 2013, 04:46 pm
Interpol has been in charge of coordinating operations against online drug trafficking for quite a long time. A lot of their focus is certainly on spam pharmacies. There are some people who consider themselves specialists in terms of combating the drug forums as well though, one of the agents who arrested enelysion self identified himself to the court as a world leading expert regarding the drug forum communities. I don't think that their specialists are very special though. Ongoing operations are operations that have not concluded yet. I could take that to mean two different things, it could mean operations such as Pangaea, which is on going in that it is carried out on an annual basis, or it could mean on going as in the single time operation has not concluded with arrests yet. I have heard on going operation used to mean either of these things.
Title: Re: Interpol "Project Drug.net - to tackle growing drug trafficking via internet
Post by: ramrugger on January 12, 2013, 04:51 pm
gotta echo everyone else here - I was doing work for my masters a year ago and got to email with a few Interpol agents [full disclosure, my work is in human trafficking, not drugs] and I can tell you that when I delicately brought up the drugs conversation, they both kind of cyber-groaned, rolled their eyes and changed the subject.

sounds like hot air indeed.