Sometimes, you don't want to know how the sausage is made - but sometimes you do. When KickassTorrents went down, the assumption was that it was an elaborate sting operation. Nope; it was email and iTunes purchases. The US government's complaint, which Gizmodo dove into with some zeal, details how thoroughly foolish KickassTorrent's leader, Artem Vaulin, was. Not only was he operating a KickasssTorrents Facebook page, but was doing so with a personal email address. How personal? It was a '@me.com' address, which is owned by Apple (and is the precursor to @icloud.com). His email was discovered when authorities sent…
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