The “I’m Still on the Inside” Black-Market Information Trade (100% Legal, 0% Ethical)
You’re excepted, still have your CAC, still have agency email, still have access to JWICS/SIPR/NIPR, and contractors are suddenly blind because 40–80% of the government POCs just vanished overnight.
Here’s what’s selling right now at premium shutdown rates:
Real-time bidder lists and incumbent contract numbers (contractors pay $2k–$10k for a single upcoming recompete list you screenshot from SAM.gov watchlist or your branch’s shared drive)
Draft statements of work before they hit the street ($5k–$15k — they’ll re-write their entire capture strategy around it)
Names and personal cell phones of the actual evaluators and source-selection board members (the single most valuable dataset in Beltway bandit land — $3k–$20k per name depending on program size)
“Here’s exactly what pissed off the KO last time” debrief notes you were never supposed to keep
Delivery method: Burner WhatsApp or Signal → Cash App / Zelle / crypto → delete everything. Average excepted GS-14/15 in a major acquisition shop clears $40k–$120k during a 3–6 week shutdown doing this 2–3 hours per night.
Zero paper trail, zero ethics disclosure required because you’re not being paid by the government right now anyway.
The “I’m Still on the Inside” Black-Market Information Trade (100% Legal, 0% Ethical)
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