Keith Bristow, director general at the NCA, said: These arrests send a clear message to criminals; the hidden Internet isnt hidden and your anonymous activity isnt anonymous. We know where you are, what you are doing and we will catch you.
He went on to say criminals cant completely erase their digital footprints, no matter how technology-savvy they are.
They will always make mistakes and this brings law enforcement closer to them. These latest arrests are just the start; there are many more to come, Bristow added.
Actually the hidden Internet is hidden and anonymous activity is anonymous. They don't know where you are, what you are doing and they can only catch people who don't know how to be anonymous properly.
People can completely erase their digital footprints, and if you are truly technology-savvy, you can get rid of all your digital footprints.
I do agreed on the last sentence, people make mistakes and that is how the law enforcement can arrest the one who are less technology-savvy and don't know how to get rid of their digital footprint.
The NCA is boasting about it, but not everything is true. I have skills in Computer Forensic and deal with Computer Espionage cases, it is only the less technology savvy and careless people who get caught.
The real technology savvy people, you will not be able to catch them, because you don't even know it happened.
For example, the Anonymous hacker group. Only a few people who are not technology savvy got caught, the one who used the hacking tool made by the Anonymous hacker group (Not member of the Anonymous). The real hackers in the Anonymous hacker group, never got caught.