Money laundering can be a complicated thing. Crypto opens up all kinds of fun techniques to would-be cleaners. Here we have a case that shows a simple truth: using all the fancy techniques in the world doesn’t matter if you don’t understand what they do, and when to use them. Another lesson from this case is that trying to obfuscate your activity on a public ledger is pointless. An elaborate shell game is pointless when all the moves are publicly recorded.
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Alleged drug trafficker John McKernan is the subject of today’s satirical OpSec review. A witness says that John is a self-described autist who “rides his bike here to the store.” According to video evidence he dressed for the part. The story begins (if you’re going to accept the FBI as the sole perspective character for this particular tale) when a darknet vendor called KingofKeys caught the attention of our friends at the FBI.
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