If you’ve dedicated any web crimes currently, you most likely shouldn’t have paid for them with bitcoin. While many crypto-evangelists have lengthy trumpeted digital foreign money as a means to purchase items (authorized and unlawful) on the web whereas staying completely nameless, the very fact is that just about all cryptocurrency transactions depart a digital path behind them that may level to your true identification. No matter how onerous you attempt to disguise, a devoted sleuth with the suitable sources can nonetheless discover you.
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior cybersecurity author and writer of the e-book Tracers within the Dark digs into all of the methods investigators, authorities brokers, and hackers can observe down on-line criminals by “following the money” exchanged in cryptocurrency transactions.
Show Notes
Andy’s e-book is Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency. You can learn two excerpts from the e-book on WIRED.com: the six-part AlphaBay saga and the characteristic concerning the takedown of a website for sharing baby intercourse abuse supplies.
Recommendations
Andy recommends the intentionally irritating sport Getting Over It. Lauren recommends Andy’s WIRED story concerning the animal activists whose spy cams revealed the grim realities of pork slaughterhouses. Mike recommends the e-book Art Is Life by the artwork critic Jerry Saltz.
Andy could be discovered on Twitter @a_greenberg. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the principle hotline at @GadgetLab. The present is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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