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For weeks, the Dutch had prepared for this moment. Examining source code from Hansa’s German servers, they’d managed to reconstruct their own testversion of the site—even creating their own practice cryptocurrency to figure out how it handled transactions. 5/14 — PolitiTweet.org

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Around the same time, another half of Operation Bayonet was taking shape: Agents in the Netherlands received an anticipated call from German police. They had just arrested the two administrators of Hansa, the dark web’s second-biggest black market for drugs, in their homes. 4/14 — PolitiTweet.org

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With the real Hansa admins arrested, the Dutch now needed to take control of the live market. And they had to do it without knocking the site offline or giving even Hansa’s staff a clue that the two admins had been replaced by a team of Dutch police. 6/14 — PolitiTweet.org

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