Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 10/29/22

Hunting for cryptocurrency crime lords, Non-state armed groups turn to cyber, Inside the prisoner swap of Huawei's CFO, El Salvador relies on social media snitches, Leaving social media platforms

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The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 1: The Shadow 

Wired’s Andy Greenberg offers this excerpt from his new book, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, about the take-down in Thailand of Alexandre Cazes, the “dark-web mastermind known as Alpha02, a shadowy figure who oversaw millions of dollars a day in narcotics sales and had built the largest digital drug and crime bazaar in history, known as AlphaBay.” Federal prosecutor Grant Rabenn developed a dark web task force that tapped DEA wiretap expert Robert Miller to pierce the veil of the cryptocurrency transac…