Link: Wired News: I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI.
'The organized chain of command allowed a rich economy to flourish – and the range of products and services at offer was staggering. While credit card fraud was a staple of the cyber underground, a wide variety of other crimes also unfolded – and still unfold – on the boards. Some underground denizens offered spamming and "bullet-proof" hosting services from servers placed in locations unreachable by law enforcement. Extortionists used botnets to deliver DDoS attacks against websites that didn't pay protection money. And hackers designed and sold rootkits, spyware and spam mailers, alongside peddlers of stolen source code from companies like Microsoft. Pretty much anything went in the underground if it could produce a profit.'
(((There are untold hordes of people living this way now. The FBI are like a tiny GreenZone minority with badges and guns. This article goes on and on and on. And there's more coming. It's great stuff. Elmore Leonard couldn't outdo it.)))
