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Originally Posted by Hugh G. Rexion
What exactly was the crime committed? A bunch of dudes getting together and talking about their exploits? Didnt you guys just do that a couple weeks ago?
The other thing was if your website is maintained on a server overseas how can they legally touch it?
I keep waiting for the hammer to come down on HX. I suppose its just a matter of time.
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Domain registrars fold pretty quickly to LE and taking over the DNS records of a domain pretty much allows takeover of a site without touching the server - all the traffic can be routed to anything LE controls.
There are numerous ways to both connect owners of & take down a site.
- Any monetary transactions that are done through any US channels
- Domain registration
- Hosting / servers
- Unencrypted traffic in or out of a site that is used for site management
- Infiltration
- Wire taps based on criminal activity not related to sex - for example money laundering, drugs, trafficking, failure to pay taxes
Since mainly only US LE seems to dig into these things, the only ways for someone to run similar sites would be to ensure they do all of the following:
- Host offshore
- Buy a domain from a non-US registrar
- Pay for all hosting and communications with Bitcoin
- Self-host email & encrypt all emails
- Always use encryption
- Tunnel traffic to manage a site using a VPN passed through a secondary offshore host
- Never accept payment from a US-based service
- Keep all money offshore
- Don't get involved with the members of the site
- Don't get involved with approving or rejecting content on the site - just be a conduit
- Don't trust anyone
- Don't discuss business over the phone or SMS
- Auto-delete old messages after 1 week
- Be willing to lose all your money
- If there is any aspect of the venture which overlaps into US territory and is at all traceable for any monetary earnings then for god's sake pay all your taxes due