Darkode 3.0 is so lame it's not worth your time reading this story

The FBI-scuppered Darkode crime forum appears truly dead after a promised resurgent site failed to surface and a recent spin-off has proven horribly insecure. Darkode was the white-hat-infested crime den for English-speaking carders and VXers who bought and sold software and services that plundered the pockets of corporations …

[Michael Thibault]

The black hat in the pic looks only slightly distressed

... like he's only just begun thinking about the implications. (Image is a little over the top--and off the sides--I think.)

[Anonymous Coward]

Low trust in the new darkode site

Maybe the FBI was responsible for poorly implementing a new version of the site specifically to cause that reaction. That way the guy who slipped the noose will have a harder time getting his former members back since they're now leery about trusting him.

[DropBear]

Overconfident much...?

I'm sure there will be no evil-doing on the net after this, ever, as that guy seems to imply. What next, world peace...?

[Anonymous Custard]

Re: Overconfident much...?

...and a hard boiled egg?

[Lamont Cranston]

"hackers, coders, and other net scum"

Coders really are the worst, aren't they? The sooner everyone stops coding, the better.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Darkode" (Dark-rode, geddit ?)

I think the problems started very early on ...

[Dadmin]

Re: "Darkode" (Dark-rode, geddit ?)

I thought it was a concatenation of Dark and Node, Dark-Node. Like my butthole, it's dark, and node-like, and no one looking for illegal goods should be shopping in there, or anywhere near there, although some of my best scripts fall out of my ass, from time to time.