Concept

Confidential informant

concept:confidential_informant

The episode’s term for the role played by an organisation that purchased data and provided investigative information to law enforcement.

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Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
incoming USES Binary Defense Explicit 108

Claims

Binary Defense USES Confidential informant

Binary Defense bought the data on the forum, investigated the seller and victim, and turned the findings over to the FBI; Jack characterizes this role as a confidential informant.

Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 108 Details

“they investigate the data to try to figure out who the victim was and who the person is that sold this to them, and then they just turned all that over to the FBI.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 29434–29597

“It’s what’s known as a confidential informant.”