[HN Gopher] Google and Amazon Helped the FBI Identify Z-Library'...
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       Google and Amazon Helped the FBI Identify Z-Library's Operators
        
       Author : picture
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-11-17 22:04 UTC (56 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (torrentfreak.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (torrentfreak.com)
        
       | tommek4077 wrote:
       | 1984
        
       | Scaevolus wrote:
       | "US-based companies Google and Amazon comply with US laws
       | regarding search warrants"
        
         | ernesto99 wrote:
         | They have no option indeed, but it's interesting to see how
         | easy this made it to connect the dots.
        
       | ztgasdf wrote:
       | I did find it /extremely/ risky seeing their original contact
       | email being a simple gmail address, and now we see the end
       | result. OpSec, everyone!
        
         | m-p-3 wrote:
         | I'm surprised they didn't go for a Protonmail account and only
         | access it through the hidden service..
        
       | crazygringo wrote:
       | My only question is, what were they doing in Argentina?
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       | It doesn't seem like they made a serious effort to keep their
       | identities hidden from law enforcement or they wouldn't have been
       | that sloppy. But as long as they stayed in Russia they'd be fine.
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       | Leaving Russia seems awfully risky if you're running a site like
       | that, without taking far more extreme precautions.
        
         | yakak wrote:
         | It seems to me like Russia cyclically (or at least from time to
         | time) exchanges independent people accused of tech crimes for
         | something it wants.
        
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