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Tom Rinaldo

(22,912 posts)
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 12:43 PM Mar 2020

I can't believe I'm saying this but: I have a job for Anonymous.

Haven't heard much from that underground misdeed revealing hacking network lately. If any of them are still active, we could use them now. There is crime syndicate level Black Market dealing going on involving essential life saving PPE materials and I suspect it is happening at an international scale. I'm not talking about "Mom and Pop" level routine "price gouging", despicable as that may be. It doesn't take high level hacking skills to figure out who is peddling hand sanitizer and toilet paper on Ebay at inflated levels. And most of that flows from petty greed, individuals trying to make a few extra bucks. They can be cracked down on. But there is always an organized black market when times are at their worst

Crime cartels and soulless so called business cartels willing to trade in human misery have always existed, it's just the changing hot commodities that come and go. There is big money being made somewhere from the hoarding of and speculation in medical items that mean the difference between life and death; masks, gowns, hand sanitizer and most likely even ventilators. People are desperate. even governments are desperate. Can they afford to balk at or threaten those who literally hold the lives of tens of thousands this week in their hands?

I haven't seen extensive coverage of this yet, just some drips and drabs about ten fold price increases on a mass level. Here is one such story:

For New York, 58-Cent Medical Masks Now Priced at $7.50 Each
By Bob Ivry and Brandon Kochkodin
March 24, 2020, 10:09 AM EDT Updated on March 24, 2020, 12:35 PM EDT
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/for-new-york-58-cent-medical-masks-now-priced-at-7-50-each

The shadowy faces of the people behind those exploiting this pandemic at the expense of tens of thousands of lives need to be exposed. They need to be outed. They need to face the fury of the people whose lives they endanger daily. As far as I'm concerned they are no better than the Nazi's who used to operate death camps. Ex-SS officers had no claim to privacy. They were hunted down in every corner of the globe.

Anonymous, have at them

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I can't believe I'm saying this but: I have a job for Anonymous. (Original Post) Tom Rinaldo Mar 2020 OP
OMG! SheltieLover Mar 2020 #1
We need them now more than ever! 2naSalit Mar 2020 #2
I was just thinking about Anonymous lately and wondering why they're so quiet. crickets Mar 2020 #3
We REALLY need Anonymous to make sure the russians don't hack the voting machines for November! BComplex Mar 2020 #4

crickets

(25,969 posts)
3. I was just thinking about Anonymous lately and wondering why they're so quiet.
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 01:37 PM
Mar 2020

This is right up their alley.

Anonymous, have at them


Agreed!

BComplex

(8,049 posts)
4. We REALLY need Anonymous to make sure the russians don't hack the voting machines for November!
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 01:39 PM
Mar 2020

That's when we're going to need them more than ever before!

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