> Agents built a detailed financial picture of Larry. Inspecting his cloud accounts...
Scariest part of the article.
Scariest part of the article.
you store anything in a big-corp cloud, which you haven't personally encrypted, with keys that only you possess, then assume it's all backed up in fed repos (somewhat hyperbolic, especially for non-crims, but not far fetched by any means)
that's neither new, nor news (sadly)
I'm not claiming that this was the case here, I just don't think the government deserves the benefit of the doubt.
> Working with Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company, the agents studied thousands of Helix transactions, subpoenaed emails, and ultimately found one involving a website that allows users to buy gift cards with Bitcoin. An email associated with Larry was used to open the account.
If you’ve got an email address associated with a Google account, it’s a plain old warrant.