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SHOCKER! Illegal Online Drug Purchasers Find Out the Hard Way That Online Criminals Aren't Trustworthy

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Those of us who stick to the safe confines of the normal internet may not be aware, but while we're all quietly using Google or Netflix or something on the regular 'ol internet there's a whole parallel internet that's running at the same time. Called 'The Darknet' by critics and media outlets a lot of bad stuff goes down on this bizarro internet, stuff most of us don't want to think about or even know about. Honestly one of the more benign uses of this internet land of shadows is its utility as a place to order drugs from people willing to sell them to you, provided you have the Bitcoin or other digital currency that's the lifeblood of the place. But even though its use as a virtual back alley to buy your uppers or whatever is less worrisome than the other stuff going on... you're still committing a crime and dealing with criminals to do it. 

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But surely you can trust criminals to not get you into trouble, right? If you can't trust your online drug dealer who's by definition breaking the law and helping you to break the law in the process as a 'business transaction', who can you trust?

Ah. Yes. But what's the worst they could do? After all, they told users that their data wasn't tracked and what data was stored was encrypted and only stored for a bit before being automatically deleted... surely they weren't lying about that, right?

Oh.

Sure they weren't playing on the level before, but now they're definitely gonna be shooting straight right? Right?!

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It's remarkably like something from a druggy hyper online O. Henry story.

Of course let's not pretend that these guys doing the extortion are planning very well on this... after all true anonymity is a hard thing to come by and a person who's really motivated to find out who you are and get their revenge on you will likely be able to figure out who's behind this.

Just a bit of a gamble, yes. 

Perhaps it's time that we extended the phrase 'there's no honor among thieves' to criminals writ large... after all, if you're the type who's interested in bucking societal rules then the odds seem decent that you're also the type who's less than interested in following standard unspoken rules around best business practices and keeping your word. It sounds like somebody's gonna learn a lesson here, but everyone involved seems to deserve to learn one.

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