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HOSTILE TAKEOVER

He announced the forced merger in a mass e-mail to his new members. As the morning dawned in San Francisco, he watched them gather, confused and angry, on his consolidated crime forum. Matrix001, a German DarkMarket administrator, demanded an explanation for Iceman's actions. A previously taciturn spam king named Master Splyntr spoke up to criticize the organization of the material Iceman had stolen from the other boards. The entire contents of the competing sites now lived in a new section of Carders Market called “Historical posts from merged forums.” They were unsorted and difficult to navigate; Max had found the sites' content worthy of preserving but not of organizing.

Max watched the grumbling for a while, then stepped in and let everyone know who was in charge.

@Master Splyntr: unless you have something
constructive or specific to say, your comment is
unwelcome. If you are unhappy with the layout,
then go away and come back later, because it is
not yet sorted out!

@matrix001: The old forums were negligent in
their security, using shared hosting, failing to
use encryption of the data, logging IP addresses,
using “1234” as the administrative passwords
(yes really people this is true!), and general
administrative Nazism. Some, such as TheVouched,
were even giving a false sense of security, which
as you know is far worse than none at all.

You ask, what is the meaning of “all this”? If
you mean, why would we merge five carding forums
together, the short answer is because I didn't
have time nor interest to merge in the other four
for a total of nine!