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Canadian man admits sending ‘suicide packets’ to hundreds of people around world
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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I get your criminal practicality, but this was probably more about reliable business opportunities.
Anyone that can go through all the steps to search the darknet and purchase Monero probably has enough knowledge to just acquire poison for themselves.
... which they may well do on the darknet, to some vendor who at least will keep the transaction private.
Seriously bad OpSec just bothers me. "We sell hot sauce (and booze, ask for 'Mr Fields')" sort of barely worked at physical speakeasies in the 1920s. Not on the 2020's Internet FFS.
Reminds me of the gang bangas who hold up a liquor store... then post themselves on Facebook with the booze and money.
I don't want people to commit shade-tree suicide. I want social systems with mental and physical health care that people can really trust even about end-of-life decisions and that will respect rational consistent level-headed choices.
But absent such a system or in the cases where it breaks down, there is a utility in these markets. People should at least be aware the privacy technology exists.
Judging by the hints in the article, the lethal substance isn't something that one needs to go to the darknet to find, but a quite common substance
I don't see these hints. It says he sold other culinary things but not in a way that suggests the substance was a culinary thing or anything. Sure it gives some symptoms and sounds like a depressent of some kind.
That worked during prohibition because the bootleggers had bought the police.
I’ll do you one better. (Well, worse…)
He had $296k CAD in his Shopify/PayPal accounts and sent out these pills to 1,200 people. That’s about $250 CAD / $180 USD / 155 Euro per transaction - minimum, assuming he had not withdrawn funds from those accounts.
Anyone with a welding/industrial supply store nearby could beat him on price without having to ingest anything. Painlessly, too.