Chris Tarbell

That's insane that we took that away.

We were looking to open a case against Tor because it was a problem.

All the cases were closing because Tor.

So we went on Tor and we came up with 26 different onions that we targeted.

We were looking for nexuses to hacking because I was on a squad called CY2.

And we were like the premier squad in New York that was working criminal cyber intrusions.

And so, you know, any website that was offering hackers for hire or hacking tools for free, you know, or paid services, you know, like now we're seeing ransomware as a paid service and phishing as a paid service.

Anything that offered that.

So we opened this case on – I think we called it – so you have to name cases.

One of the fun things in the FBI is when you start a case, you get to name it.

you would not believe how much time is spent in coming up with the name.

You know, Casey goes by, I think we called this Onion Peeler because of the, yeah.

Yeah, this one had the potential of being a big one, you know, because I think Silk Road was like the sixth on the list for that case.

But we all knew that was sort of the golden ring.

If you could make the splash that that onion site was going down, then it would probably get some publicity.

And that's part of, you know, law enforcement is getting some publicity out of it that, you know, that makes others think not to do it.

Let's say you want to go to a .onion site.

You'll put in the .onion you want to go to, and your computer will build communications with a Tor relay, which are all publicly available out there.

But you'll encrypt it.

You'll put a package around your data.