As presented by the journalist here, it makes sense to believe him. But imagine seeing what Monteiro is presenting in real-time, with some reasonably cautious skepticism. His computers contain the entire source of the hitman site, he had admin capabilities of the site, enough to take it down. Even as Yura created new sites Monteiro retained the ability to read all of the email of the site. A reasonable reading of that, is that rather than a white knight, it was just as likely he was a co-conspirator.
And frankly they shouldn't fully let go of that idea. The author seems willing to take everything Monteiro says at face value, without an ounce of skepticism. If Monteiro and Yura were a team and one got cold feet, how would it play out, and how could one best cover his tracks?
Yes. I found this to be unbelievable.
Let’s say bad-admin uses an out of date Wordpress or join pa instance with some security flaw. Am I really to beleive in 2 years he keeps using the same instance every time his site is taken down?
That seems extremely unlikely.
If your hian site is taken down by some guy in London, you’re going to wonder how; and probably assume it was some bad code on your end.
Dude keeps using the same code and keeps wondering how his site keeps getting hacked - yet, knows enough to work SEO, get a guy SEATed, run an anonymous darkwrv site, and handle crypto payments?
Sure seems odd.