A member of a web forum used to facilitate identity theft has been convicted in federal court under a law classically used to target mafia and gang members. According to Wired, this is the first time that this law — the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) — has been used to prosecute cybercrime. Under RICO, members of a criminal organization can be prosecuted for assisting in criminal activity even if they didn’t directly commit a crime. In this case, members of the forum, known as “Carder.su,” were required to go through a vetting process and to meet a number of security standards that would protect the forum from law enforcement.
via The Verge
