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I always find it incredible when these takedowns occur, how much effort they put into the graphical design. And it doesn't look like a hobby designer among the police did this, but they hired somebody.

Also, considering this is a drug sting, which should be a really serious thing, it's strange that they make a joke on the page.

I would expect a plain HTML page saying "This hidden service hosted illegal activities. All transactions have been logged. If you participated in these activities, contact your local authorities."



http://rijkshuisstijl.nl/ (roughly "government house style / style guide")

We even have bespoke fonts, Rijksoverheid Serif and Rijksoverheid Sans: https://www.rijkshuisstijl.nl/basiselementen/lettertype

This image, however, seems to be a stock photo, the Dutch police logo, and white lettering. Given that it uses no less than four different fonts, I bet it was a quick paste job by someone from the cybercrime unit, not a professional graphic designer.

After some image searching, it turns out to be from a template: https://www.om.nl/publish/pages/51619/screenshot_zonder_brow...




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