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		blhack on Oct 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices How do people find these "underground forums" and things like that? This fascinates me so much.

Biganon on Oct 23, 2016 [–]

Tor, probably

dsmithatx on Oct 23, 2016 | [–]

It's been done via IRC using hacked proxies and VPN forever now. I got in the underground trading scene around 1993. Back in those days I doubt a single Fed knew what IRC even stood for. Now they have infiltrated everything.

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