SecurityRatty: Did Anti-Spam Group Create a Backstory For DarkMarket's Undercover Fed?

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Did Anti-Spam Group Create a Backstory For DarkMarket's Undercover Fed?

2008-10-14 20:36:00 by Kevin Poulsen in Wired Security

Until Monday, the U.K.-based spam fighters at Spamhaus had an extensive profile of "Master Splynter," the assumed identity of the FBI agent who took over the cybercrime trading post DarkMarket. Was it all part of a cunning plan to establish a back story for a crime lord who never existed?