Sabu still works for the FBI I'm pretty sure. I doubt it was a grand scheme by the FBI/Snitchbu to convince them to go after Freedom Hosting in 2011 there were already plenty of moral police anons white knighting way before he showed up to rat the entire internet. Remember, anybody can call themselves anonymous and attempt to raise a personal electronic army to assist them in whatever causes they're promoting. Not difficult to create pastebins, spam your call to arms in the usual places and contact the media.
There's no real info about the bust in the press, so I'm going to assume it was simple social engineering and payment tracking "Hey, I'll pay you $30k to set up private hosting <make up excuse not to use bitcoins> and I need it asap".
I don't know the details but media making FH out ot be an illegal porn factory or something. All I know of it is that it was free hosting with no rules, and hosted hackbb plus dozens of other forums none of them kiddy diddler related. The one's that were got hacked and defaced repeatedly
There's no real info about the bust in the press, so I'm going to assume it was simple social engineering and payment tracking "Hey, I'll pay you $30k to set up private hosting <make up excuse not to use bitcoins> and I need it asap".
I don't know the details but media making FH out ot be an illegal porn factory or something. All I know of it is that it was free hosting with no rules, and hosted hackbb plus dozens of other forums none of them kiddy diddler related. The one's that were got hacked and defaced repeatedly