I read this and for some reason I read it like an instruction manual on how to do things right. Given the chain law enforcement followed, the "advice" you can take away from this is:
- Always, always, always use a prepaid credit card. You can buy them everywhere. Pay for them with cash. Don't buy them in a store with good surveillance;
- Make sure you register them with out-of-state addresses and fake names (if you even have to). Use a different card to pay for different things so the trail covers multiple states. This complicates law enforcement;
- Use a foreign intermediary. This GREATLY complicates law enforcement;
- Have that intermediary be an innocent-looking site, like for sending large files. Use a different set of cards for that site;
- If you're not interested in real-time as such you could greatly complicate efforts to obtain a warrant by uploading different pieces of the content to the intermediary site using a variety of networks.
- Encrypt the upload. Have individual pieces meaningless without the whole.
- Upload those pieces via multiple accounts on the fake foreign intermediary. Maybe even use two or more intermediaries.
Not that I have any interest in such things but the engineer in me sees such a post and naturally looks for ways to solve the problems.
The piece about encrypting and uploading different pieces as a background task that simply looks for open networks as you wander around actually sounds like an interesting technical exercise.
Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if such a thing exists already.
That said, as you get bigger, you earn more. ad networks pay higher rates as you get more traffic. So I wouldn't dismiss the business model right away. Looking at the traffic curve on that site, it was going up a lot at the end. I bet the bulk was made recently.
- Always, always, always use a prepaid credit card. You can buy them everywhere. Pay for them with cash. Don't buy them in a store with good surveillance;
- Make sure you register them with out-of-state addresses and fake names (if you even have to). Use a different card to pay for different things so the trail covers multiple states. This complicates law enforcement;
- Use a foreign intermediary. This GREATLY complicates law enforcement;
- Have that intermediary be an innocent-looking site, like for sending large files. Use a different set of cards for that site;
- If you're not interested in real-time as such you could greatly complicate efforts to obtain a warrant by uploading different pieces of the content to the intermediary site using a variety of networks.
- Encrypt the upload. Have individual pieces meaningless without the whole.
- Upload those pieces via multiple accounts on the fake foreign intermediary. Maybe even use two or more intermediaries.
Not that I have any interest in such things but the engineer in me sees such a post and naturally looks for ways to solve the problems.
The piece about encrypting and uploading different pieces as a background task that simply looks for open networks as you wander around actually sounds like an interesting technical exercise.
Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if such a thing exists already.