A cop working for the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (the French national domestic surveillance agency) used the darknet marketplace Black Hand to sell access to France’s prodigious national surveillance apparatus to criminals: give him a phone number and he’d track its location; give him a name and he’d tell you whether that person was under police investigation and disclose the contents of the associated files; he’d also sell you everything you needed to forge papers and other official documents (he took payment in Bitcoin).
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