An FBI Agent's 3 Years Undercover With Identity Thieves 196
snydeq writes "InfoWorld offers the inside story of how FBI Supervisory Special Agent J. Keith Mularski, aka Master Splynter, penetrated and took over DarkMarket.ws, the infamous underground carding board hacked by Max Butler and later transformed by Mularski into an FBI sting operation. The three-year tour sent Mularski deeper into the world of online computer fraud than any FBI agent before, resulting in 59 arrests and preventing an estimated $70 million in bank fraud before the FBI pulled the plug on the operation in October."
Actually (Score:5, Funny)
How on earth are we supposed to believe it's the real Agent Mularski now?
I like the way the government thinks (Score:5, Funny)
Cool hacker name = geek culture reference + creative misspellings/capitalizations
Sample names:
Dark JedEYE
FeloniouS MonK
POPP3R SMRF
TERRORByTE
G\/\/B
I predict you will hear of these handles in future busts.
Re:I like the way the government thinks (Score:5, Funny)
George Washington Bridge? What's so cool about that.
Re:How much more... (Score:4, Funny)
HACK THE PLANET!
Re:I like the way the government thinks (Score:5, Funny)
Those are also the initials for George W. Bush, a former president of the USA.
Since we all are already trying very hard to forget him, I guess you get a pass
Re:I like the way the government thinks (Score:3, Funny)
Well, if you wanna go for that retro feel you can always use killabyte.
Re:Fencing (Score:5, Funny)
My girlfriend would NOT approve if I stopped eating out.
Re:Right, you are trying so hard to move on (Score:1, Funny)
He's not the messiah, he's very naughty boy! Now, go away!
Re:I like the way the government thinks (Score:2, Funny)
Don't be silly. We all know the real supervillian is P3dobyte.
Re:I like the way the government thinks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I like the way the government thinks (Score:3, Funny)
That was two V's.
No, they were back and forward slashes, alternating. That's the beauty of the G\/\/B handle, you can try googling it but you'll never get it right! And I thought the "non-space non-printing character" hidden directory name in DOS was awesome.
Re:I like the way the government thinks (Score:5, Funny)
I assume the USA must be the Australian equivalent to MIT.
Re:I like the way the government thinks (Score:3, Funny)
I predict you will hear of these handles in future busts.
I find that highly unlikely. After all, these are computer geeks; they've probably never gotten near enough to any woman except their mother to...
Oh...
Never mind!
They hand access to free credit cards. Some how I think women could stand to be around them.
Re:Fencing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How much more... (Score:2, Funny)
They leave that to the Department of Homeland Security ;-)
Sure (Score:4, Funny)
If you can make 1,000 a day, tax free, working thirty hours a week. And if they throw you in prison, you can take some classes and write J# middleware when you get out.
The downside is the anal raping. For most people, I mean.
Re:How much more... (Score:5, Funny)
FBI does do some drug crimes I guess, but usually by accident. They're more into the "cool" crimes like Murder, Sex, and Cyber.
This post is so much entertaining (and possibly accurate) when read without context...