Sam Bent SAME_AS DoingFedTime
Sam Bent says he is mostly known online as DoingFedTime.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sam Bent EP 132 Details
“Also mostly known as DoingFedTime online”
Person
person:sam_bent
Also: 12189082, DoingFedTime, killab
Guest who describes operating as a darknet-market vendor and later becoming a paralegal.
Guest who describes operating as a darknet-market vendor and later becoming a paralegal.
“my name is Sam Bent”
“Also mostly known as DoingFedTime online and killab”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | SAME_AS | DoingFedTime | Explicit | 132 |
| outgoing | SAME_AS | killab | Explicit | 132 |
| outgoing | MENTIONS | Silk Road | Explicit | 132 |
| outgoing | USES | Hansa | Explicit | 132 |
| outgoing | USES | Tails Linux | Explicit | 132 |
| outgoing | USES | PGP | Explicit | 132 |
| outgoing | USES | Bitcoin | Explicit | 132 |
| outgoing | USES | Monero | Explicit | 132 |
| outgoing | USES | Operational security | Explicit | 132 |
| outgoing | USES | information security policies | Explicit | 132 |
| outgoing | USES | thermal printer | Explicit | 132 |
| outgoing | USES | Dread | Explicit | 132 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | Operation Dark Gold | Explicit | 132 |
Sam Bent SAME_AS DoingFedTime
Sam Bent says he is mostly known online as DoingFedTime.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sam Bent EP 132 Details
“Also mostly known as DoingFedTime online”
Sam Bent says killab was his hacker alias.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sam Bent EP 132 Details
“and killab; that was my hacker alias for a while”
Sam says he had exposure to Silk Road and initially thought it was a federal sting operation.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Sam Bent EP 132 Details
“I remember when Silk Road had came out; I honestly – I thought it was a scam”
Sam posted extensively on Hansa, later became a vendor there, and used the site’s forums and marketplace.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sam Bent EP 132 Details
“I made 5,000 posts in a month on Hansa”
“I want to become a vendor”
Sam Bent USES Tails Linux
Sam used Tails Linux when accessing the darknet marketplace.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 132 Details
“He used the Tails Linux operating system”
Sam re-entered his PGP key to authenticate and conduct business on the site.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 132 Details
“he would have to reload Tails and re-enter his PGP key”
Sam used Bitcoin for darknet transactions and accepted Bitcoin-only payments.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sam Bent EP 132 Details
“So, yeah, Bitcoin. Bitcoin only. Yeah, that was it.”
Sam exchanged Bitcoin for Monero and then cashed out the Monero because it was more private and harder to track.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 132 Details
“he also would exchange his Bitcoin for Monero, which is more private than Bitcoin and harder to track”
Sam Bent USES Operational security
Sam relied on operational security practices to protect his identity, keys, communications, and shipping activity.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Sam Bent EP 132 Details
“That’s a part of having good operational security”
Sam Bent USES information security policies
Sam and his cousin had agreed information-security and incident-response policies for a possible raid.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Sam Bent EP 132 Details
“This was agreed to prior to anything. So, that was the thing; if we get raided, I admit everything was mine”
Sam Bent USES thermal printer
Sam used a thermal printer to print shipping labels, believing it avoided microprinting.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sam Bent EP 132 Details
“I bought a thermal printer because with a thermal printer, it doesn’t use ink”
Sam served as an administrator on Dread and performed administrative work on its forum.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sam Bent EP 132 Details
“My job coming on was to be an admin and actually do stuff on the actual forum”
Operation Dark Gold INVOLVES Sam Bent
Operation Dark Gold involved Sam as a person who sent Bitcoin to Gold and received cash in the operation.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 132 Details
“So, that’s when Sam sent him some Bitcoin and he sent Sam some cash”