They gave 322 homeless street addicts free opiates, which allowed them to sort their lives out since their day to day activities weren't entirely consumed with scoring heroin. Property theft and street violence also plummeted, saving ambulance costs for overdoses, and the police and courts millions which was all in the full SALOME study as most of the addicts used property crime to fund their addictions.

I imagine BI would do the same. Instead of being on an automatic pilot mode of desperately finding money for drugs and booze everyday there would be time to reflect and maybe seek out detox.

Credit cards they make their own fake stores by the hundreds and pay themselves small amounts, or they do instore fraud which is extremely risky. In the UK they simply card Tesco and then sell the groceries half price. Can also fraud bitcoins now as services exist to buy small amounts. None of this is easy, profits aren't huge it's all very small time unless you're the guy getting and selling the data to the legions of petty hustlers worldwide.

Of course google can install whatever they want on your device if given a NSL including a modified WhatsApp that sends in plaintext straight to the police everything you type but haven't heard of that yet either.

Since Facebook makes money harvesting data wonder if WhatsApp grabs advertising keywords first then sends via textsecure layer.

Works on Intel xgold basebands by giving access to the event log

You can also edit Torrc to temporarily only use your own Tor exit nodes if worried about malicious exits while setting up accounts.

Of course if you were setting up an illegal hidden service payment would be the least of your worries. Moving it around every few weeks inside Russia like the inter-dimensional dark fortress in Krull to prevent long term traffic analysis, maintaining your site from a moving location everyday, and making sure you don't blow opsec giving away your identity is probably more difficult than finding creative methods to pay for hosting.

Every time they have temporarily relaxed drinking laws to try something similar here like DC movie night it resulted in brawling, stabbings, street hobos showing up to scream gibberish and aggressively pan handle, and the audience got so wrecked ambulances had to be called. It's like the heavy regulations that the West Coast cities screws into society creates a community that turns to bedlam the moment those chains are temporarily removed.

Severely mentally ill and violent people wandering the streets, committing rampant property crime to feed drug habits which make them even more unstable.