The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante... and a murder | WIRED UK
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Si vous avez jamais réfléchi ce que vous pourriez faire contre les abus de hackers black hat , contre les criminels qui font leur commerce avec votre carte de crédit ou contre les spammeurs qui vous bouffent des minutes chaque matin, voici une histoire à ne pas rater. C’est risqué de s’engager pour la bonne cause.
There are no hitmen in this story. There are no sharply dressed assassins screwing silencers on to their Glocks, no operatives assigned, nor capos directing them.
There is a website, though – a succession of websites, to be precise – where all those things are made out to be true. Some people fall for it. Looking for a hitman, they download Tor, a browser that uses encryption and a complex relaying system to ensure anonymity, and allows them to access the dark web, where the website exists. Under false names, the website’s users complete a form to request a murder. They throw hundreds of bitcoins into the website’s digital purse.
The website’s admin is scamming them: no assassination is ever executed. The admin would dole out a hail of lies for why hits had been delayed, and keep the bitcoins.
But, elsewhere, someone called Chris Monteiro has been disrupting the website’s operations for years, triggering its admin’s wrath.
Au fond l’histoire suit la partition écrite pour les musiciens des orchestres rouges et noires. Il ne faut faire confiance à personne. Il ne faut pas commetre d’erreur car chaque erreur se paie. Au mieux on arrive à changer de trottoir quand un espion croise ton chemin sans égard du côté pour lequel il prétend se battre.