
Ep 24: Operation Bayonet
Darknet Diaries
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What Happened to the German Police?
The dutch and german authorities seized hansa, europe's most popular dark market. While in jail, the two men gave up all the passwords and credentials needed to access all parts of the sites. By this time, hansa had over 70 thousand listings on is site at any given time. This was a lot of information for the authorities to process. And amazingly enough, the police also tricked users on the site to download a homing beacon. They claimed this file was a back up incription key to access their big coins if the site were to ever go down. So people down noted it and opened it, which would run a script that would try to connect to
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