/biz/ - Business & Finance

>Welcome to the fourth /XMR/ General weekly opsec discussion!
Firstly i just wanted to mention that its been a pleasure putting these together for the /XMR/ community! The feedback received so far has been overwhelmingly positive and i look forward to continuing these sessions into the future. Thank you for taking the time to read, and i hope you retain some useful information from it, as i know i have in the process of making them.
This weeks discussion is going to be light on original content, unfortunately i have been busier than usual, so i thought this might be a good chance to share some case files from high profile arrests, mostly based in the US. Please feel free to share any additional case documents you have as well!


>Previous weeks discussion
PGP - pastebin.com/K5uK4vvg
File Verification - pastebin.com/64jdYSua
Compartmentalization - pastebin.com/fduPVLmV
>OpsAnon's public key
pastebin.com/kiEVscyb


>Why do we care?

Having these records made available to the public is an incredibly valuable resource for us as privacy/opsec concerned users, by reading these cases over we can learn from others mistakes, and we can build a picture of the tools and tactics used by those who mean to break our opsec!

>What information can we scrape from these documents?

While sometimes these gov documents can be verbose and outside of our scope of interest, we can dissect each case into a few key questions that will relate back to our own techniques. Anyone who remembers grade school English class is familiar with the 5 W's (who, what, where, when, why), in this case, i am removing the "why" and substituting " How", since that is the real juice we are trying to squeeze out here. We can further modify this template a bit so we can extract the most useful information and ask ourselves how the circumstances in these cases relate to our own.