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The Erosion of Financial Privacy - Marginal REVOLUTION
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this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2024
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Monero is the answer to this
This might be FUD, but... Vastaamo hacker traced via ‘untraceable’ Monero transactions, police says. (Edit) - A video debunking the police report - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7CD_Nl3iwhE
That was debunked. That person accidently uploaded a .tar of their home folder which had info on previous hacks the cops knew he committed. The monero was not the link their.
nice, thank you.
No problem. The cops in this case are doing a good disinformation campaign.
I'm anonymous, let me share my desktop folder to you, and transfer the exact number of coins from the ransom to my bank
edit: also, I'm a ransomeware hacker that had been caught many times before in a country with population of 5.6mln. Come and find me, we are a legion
Since this did turn out to be debunked FUD, might be a good idea to edit it in to this comment.
can do, if you could provide the link to the debunking source - would be great!
Here's a link to mental outlaws video talking about this -
Bad OPSEC - How The Feds Traced a Monero User https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7CD_Nl3iwhE