
240 Cyberpower
or tricky to locate. Some are freely accessible, while others, often those par-
ticularly prized for the quality of the tools and information available, operate
under restricted access, reserved for regular customers or clients who have
been recommended or introduced, in the same way as contacts are made in
maa circles. These sites generally require subscription, with access being
managed and user activities scrutinised. These sites thus form a source of
income and prot for the criminals who run them: tools and knowledge in
the domain of cybercriminality fall squarely into the framework of traditional
criminality ...