• Mihies@programming.dev
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    12 hours ago

    I wonder whether it’d be possible by tracking serial numbers. You might get the first customer.

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      23 minutes ago

      If the smugglers are even marginally competent they won’t use their real personal information for the orders, nor the same fake information from one order to the next.

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      3 hours ago

      You? TBH I wouldn’t do this because I don’t really care.

      Capitalism is evil and tracking some shipment for the benefit of some empire won’t change that at all.

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      12 hours ago

      You might get the first customer.

      … and then you find something like a Philippinian trading giant where you still can’t know or do a thing.

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      12 hours ago

      Potentially, assuming they weren’t stolen or sold off to a secondary buyer from a legit first customer. Problem is another one just pops up in its place.

      I’m not saying don’t persue them, I’m saying it’s a game of state funded whack’a’mole.

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        12 hours ago

        Even if they were stolen, you at least know the origin. But yes, it’s not easy to stop leaks of publicly sold items.