An FBI Agent's 3 Years Undercover With Identity Thieves

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @08:25AM from the doing-my-best-nelson-laugh dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld offers the inside story of how FBI Supervisory Special Agent J. Keith Mularski, aka Master Splynter, penetrated and took over DarkMarket.ws, the infamous underground carding board hacked by Max Butler and later transformed by Mularski into an FBI sting operation. The three-year tour sent Mularski deeper into the world of online computer fraud than any FBI agent before, resulting in 59 arrests and preventing an estimated $70 million in bank fraud before the FBI pulled the plug on the operation in October."

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How much more... by Pig+Hogger · 2009-01-21 08:28 · Score: 1, Flamebait

How much more such operations could they conduct if they weren't so clueless by having agents investigate peaceful protesters and non-criminal **HACKERS** (in the original sense, that is, not meaning "cracker")????