back to article Roll up, come see the BOOMING HACKER BAZAAR!

Underground hacker markets are booming with counterfeit documents, premiere credit cards, hacker tutorials, and "complete satisfaction guarantees", according to a new report from Dell SecureWorks. The means to create a false identity are easily purchased through the cracker bazaars. A fake social security card can be obtain …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Police force

    What we need is some form of police force to keep us safe. We could probably find some change down the back of the sofa to fund them. They can even give themselves daft "cyber" monikers.

    Alternatively we could fund fucking huge data gathering behemoths under the guise of fighting terrorism whilst incidentally infringing virtually every citizen's right to privacy. Those citizens being anyone in the world, let alone locals.

    </froth></splutter>

    Cheers

    Jon

    1. Mark 85

      Re: Police force

      Nah... not a police force, but enforcement and penalties to make being caught not worth doing the crime. Maybe... I'm musing out loud... castration, tossed into a pit of vipers/spiders/whatever, beaten by a bunch of pissed off Sysadmins who stayed up for 48 hours fixing a hack/crack. Pick one or all.. no matter.

      The sad part is, you catch them, try them (if you're lucky) and very soon, they're back at it again.

      1. Sir Runcible Spoon

        Re: Police force

        Finding out who the culprits are is one thing, establishing jurisdiction and enforcing penalties is quite another.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Is that more or less than Experian charges?

  3. king of foo

    not naughty enough...

    These bazaars need to do some really naughty stuff before the police will do anything about them.

    You know, like torrenting the next star wars movie. Murderers, rapists, drug barons, PAH, it's those filthy pirates we need to stop!

    1. Sir Runcible Spoon
      Unhappy

      Re: not naughty enough...

      If all the victims and families of victims of the murderers, rapists and drug barons all pooled their spare cash together to create a powerful lobbying group then they might get something done.

      Justice is a wonderful concept, but it's a theoretical situation that could only exist in a lab environment - not something you see in the wild.

      1. king of foo

        Re: not naughty enough...

        Or they could pool their spare cash together and hire a crack commando unit sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit... If such "a team" existed I'm sure the place to find them would be one of these bazaars...

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