This is a perfect illustration of how to get busted. For example, the whole idea of "How can I acquire a burner phone?" is misguided, because as soon as you speak into a burner phone, your voiceprint alone is enough to identify you.
Various assumptions like "I doubt it's that easy" are also the road to getting busted.
Trying to forge or steal legal documents, let alone a license plate that you drive around with and which officers can notice at any time, is also how to get busted.
I'll have to take your word for it. I'm pretty sure you are overthinking this tho.
What you are describing is basically:
1) They find the server [this likely takes months based on their performance so far].
2) They get a copy of the paperwork & server [fake id, so useless information on it and a fake picture. That is assuming they keep a copy at all, they might not.]. Server is commodity and basically untraceable. They trace you via license plate readers to a residential neighborhood with 1,000 people.
3) They see you leave a month later via license plate reader on a major freeway and somewhere along the way you disappear because the entire country isn't monitored, especially rural highways where there aren't traffic cams. You change your license plate in the middle of nowhere.
4) They somehow detect the license plate change and track you from there to your new destination.
I mean its possible, I just don't see it as being likely given how hard they've worked to find people who made publicly visible glaring errors. :P
I doubt you could host a large scale operation on a single server. Given the volume that SR1 && SR2 received, you would need more servers at some point. At that point you either need to hit up craigslist again or host via cloud providers. (of course all of this is assuming that the first guy you met on craigslist was not an undercover agent).
> I doubt you could host a large scale operation on a single server. Given the volume that SR1 && SR2 received, you would need more servers at some point. At that point you either need to hit up craigslist again or host via cloud providers. (of course all of this is assuming that the first guy you met on craigslist was not an undercover agent).
Given I've bought servers for cash on craigslist, I doubt this is really an issue.
You are making a large number of assumptions that in real world situations aren't likely.
They'd need to:
A) Locate you. Assuming good opsec, you'd move and so forth if they imaged/seized your servers and you were aware of it.
B) Seed craigslist across a large enough area to catch you.
Hell, you could just move to Canada on "vacation" and pay cash to rent a room up there as well as buy servers in Vancouver or something.
Various assumptions like "I doubt it's that easy" are also the road to getting busted.
Trying to forge or steal legal documents, let alone a license plate that you drive around with and which officers can notice at any time, is also how to get busted.