They gave 322 homeless street addicts free opiates, which allowed them to sort their lives out since their day to day activities weren't entirely consumed with scoring heroin. Property theft and street violence also plummeted, saving ambulance costs for overdoses, and the police and courts millions which was all in the full SALOME study as most of the addicts used property crime to fund their addictions.
I imagine BI would do the same. Instead of being on an automatic pilot mode of desperately finding money for drugs and booze everyday there would be time to reflect and maybe seek out detox.
Bank xfers they will transfer to a cashing service, somebody willing to use fake identity to open business accounts to receive stolen funds and show up in person to a bank to withdraw it, then pay back a percentage to whoever sent the funds via bitcoins or other method. A good fraudster will ddos the bank after the transfer(s) to prevent the mark from logging into online banking and discovering the fraud.
Credit cards they make their own fake stores by the hundreds and pay themselves small amounts, or they do instore fraud which is extremely risky. In the UK they simply card Tesco and then sell the groceries half price. Can also fraud bitcoins now as services exist to buy small amounts. None of this is easy, profits aren't huge it's all very small time unless you're the guy getting and selling the data to the legions of petty hustlers worldwide.
Evolution is primarily resellers too, the majority of org fraud is on Russian forums like infraud.cc where they sell by bank identification number and entire databases of stolen financial data.
At least your media even talks about this, I'm in a 5 Eyes Alliance country and none of them have written anything except excuses why we should be under 24/7 surveillance. Our senate can't even block bills.
German police and intel agencies sent 440,000 sms type0/stealth attacks to trace phones last year, FBI sent an OTA to a suspects internet stick to broadcast his location, and something shady is going on at airports according to Cryptophone GSMK who's radio 'firewall' goes off whenever you get near an airport. Besides that Samsung backdoor found by Replicant Mod that has access to /data and /sdcard haven't heard of other directed attacks yet.
Of course google can install whatever they want on your device if given a NSL including a modified WhatsApp that sends in plaintext straight to the police everything you type but haven't heard of that yet either.
Since Facebook makes money harvesting data wonder if WhatsApp grabs advertising keywords first then sends via textsecure layer.
Indeed, it works like freenet IRC where you have to make an account first then log in to it with Tor. This is solved by making a throwaway VPS or virtual desktop you ssh into with Tor, make your account, shred the VPS and then change the password when you log in directly to Fb with Tor.
You can also edit Torrc to temporarily only use your own Tor exit nodes if worried about malicious exits while setting up accounts.
You can exchange bitcoins on IRC for prepaid virtual visas and mastercards, paypal, any 3rd party payment you want. There's a few web services for exchanging coins to visa too, which I can't remember right now but are posted to bitcointalk forums.
Of course if you were setting up an illegal hidden service payment would be the least of your worries. Moving it around every few weeks inside Russia like the inter-dimensional dark fortress in Krull to prevent long term traffic analysis, maintaining your site from a moving location everyday, and making sure you don't blow opsec giving away your identity is probably more difficult than finding creative methods to pay for hosting.
Vendors there sold phony identification for the sole puposes of renting drops to import narcotics or start a false front company. SR wasn't involved in trading databases of stolen info, though the other major sites that weren't busted are. Agora is like the walmart of e-crime
SR#1 they created the Armory, a seperate market. It was full of scams and extortion attempts so shut it down. Best listing was some guy in Russia trying to peddle uranium for GPS coord drop.
He sold cookie cutter stores that vendors bought and wouldn't take long to que up puppet and deploy a .onion for the hundreds of vendors on SR2. I wouldn't give Tor a green light either though, esp with people considering peddling narcotics using that p2p alpha market software Open Market where you run your own server. Seems incredibly risky for timing analysis plus nobody knows how they discovered SR #1.
The SR2 guy 'defcon' was also selling his services as a .onion developer/ops so likely all these other sites he set up for vendors and they were seized when he was caught and cooperated. From the FBI complaint he was completely careless like all other recently busted darknet admins and mods so wouldn't be surprised if they were all hosted at the same host too.
They catch Russian carding marketplace admins all the time so living in Brazil or Russia is no guarantee you won't end up in jail either. Just takes one mistake and you are on a plane in handcuffs to a federal court. They could bribe local police to pick you up for them too especially if you aren't politically connected in those countries.
They probably just use the tried and true method of exploiting flaws in the server, then helpfully offering to fix it. Repeat until trust builds and eventually a fed agent is the Sr technical lead with access to everything.
Textsecure for Android uses wifi/reg data and SMS if you want. Signal, the version for iOS with combined Redphone + TextSecure will be data too. Soon they will also allow email identity instead of only phone numbers. WhatsApp requires just as much registration as TS, and you have to allow WhatsApp full permissions to mine your entire device from reading SMS to /sdcard.
A friend of mine in Washington DC can go down to a public park where they have movie night in the summer, and with a bunch of random people they can openly drink wine and enjoy a movie outside without incident.
Every time they have temporarily relaxed drinking laws to try something similar here like DC movie night it resulted in brawling, stabbings, street hobos showing up to scream gibberish and aggressively pan handle, and the audience got so wrecked ambulances had to be called. It's like the heavy regulations that the West Coast cities screws into society creates a community that turns to bedlam the moment those chains are temporarily removed.
Severely mentally ill and violent people wandering the streets, committing rampant property crime to feed drug habits which make them even more unstable.
They gave 322 homeless street addicts free opiates, which allowed them to sort their lives out since their day to day activities weren't entirely consumed with scoring heroin. Property theft and street violence also plummeted, saving ambulance costs for overdoses, and the police and courts millions which was all in the full SALOME study as most of the addicts used property crime to fund their addictions.
I imagine BI would do the same. Instead of being on an automatic pilot mode of desperately finding money for drugs and booze everyday there would be time to reflect and maybe seek out detox.