After the takedown of AlphaBay, the biggest dark web market bust in history, the fate of one its former number-two administrators was never explained. Then, four years later, he returned, and relaunched AlphaBay under his own singular leadership.
–while they were open, running, and logged into administrator accounts on the dark web sites they oversaw. DeSnake, by contrast, makes the very bold claim that his work PC could not implicate him even if seized.
Regardless, DeSnake claims that he has traveled to "several continents within the last 4 years" and "had zero problems," leading him to believe that his years of freedom have been a result not only of his location but of having technically outmaneuvered the law enforcement agencies tracking him. Of course, everything DeSnake told WIRED may itself be misdirection designed to help him further evade those agencies.
Nearly three years later, Cazes was arrested and the site torn offline, thanks in part to a trail of evidence that began when the AlphaBay founder leaked a personal email address in the metadata of a welcome message to new users on its forums, a problem DeSnake says he had fixed early on by switching the site's forum software. "I am still in disbelief to this day that he had put his personal email on there," DeSnake says. "He was a good carder and he knew better opsec.
DeSnake has discussed that decentralization project since his earliest posts to the AlphaBay forums, and he acknowledges that it's still years away. But he sees it as a way to both make AlphaBay invulnerable to future law enforcement takedowns and to pay back the dark web's users for the millions they lost when the original AlphaBay server was seized. "When it comes to the money making this is investment in the future of AlphaBay," DeSnake writes.
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