• FBI has seized Deep Dot Web
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https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/deep-dot-web-arrests/ The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces. Two suspects were arrested in Tel Aviv and Ashdod, according to Israel’s Tel Aviv Police, which confirmed the arrests in a statement earlier in the day. Local media first reported the arrests. Arrests were also made in France, Germany and the Netherlands. A source familiar with the operation said a site administrator was arrested in Brazil. Deep Dot Web is said to have made millions of dollars in commission by offering referral links to dark web marketplaces, accessible only at .onion domains over the Tor Network. Tor bounces internet traffic through a series of random relay servers dotted across the world, making it near-impossible to trace the user. Its .onion site displayed a seized notice by the FBI, citing U.S. money laundering laws. Its clear web domain no longer loads. Pretty big news for people that are interested in this sort of thing. I'm surprised it happened after so much time but from what it sounds like, the guys deserved it for laundering money from the site in the first place.
Note that while these are arrests there is no mention of convictions or charges. We don't know who was actually involved in the money laundering and we don't know what the role of the people arrested were. Site administrator doesn't automatically equal the person in charge of the site or even involvement in the finances. What exactly did DDW have referrals for? Are we talking about terrorist websites and CP rings or more mild stuff like drugs and prostitutes?
It's hard to say, but I imagine drugs and weapons are most likely, at least based on other dark web marketplaces.
I've always wanted to see what kind of shit was sold on the dark web out of morbid curiosity. But I'm too much of a pussy to put in the effort to go look.
Buy a cheap second hand laptop and hook into some public wifi and check whatever you want out then throw the laptop away.
mostly drugs and stolen credit card and account info
It was drugs and fraud more or less, they linked to a lot of markets people used for that sort of stuff. No weapons or anything really heavy afaik
I've bought MDMA on the dark web before and it was quite successful, heh. It's insane how many obscure drugs are available actually.
You don't have to browse for long before you stumble into some crazy shit, to be honest. Anything from hard drugs to assassins-for-hire.
Yeah but how many of those assassins for hire are honeypots? I'm willing to say almost all of them. Getting on the darkweb is trivially easy and if GotG can get on it then you better believe that it's crawling with G-Men
True, but these things are all exclusively paid for with bitcoin, which is (as far as I know) untraceable. So worst case scenario you lose your money, if you're discrete enough about who you want assassinated. I guess.
Anyone has any idea how the websites looks like? Is it like ebay or amazon? Do you get to leave reviews?
I've always wondered, how does it get delivered?
Just via normal mail. As long as you order from inside the same customs area, ie. your country, you don't really receive it any differently from anything else.
Well there was carbon paper that would block x-ray machines from viewing what's inside the parcel, on the screen it would appear like a normal package but I think that security upped their game and it became obsolete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzN4WGPC4kc
Knockout should become an onion only site so that way we all retain our privacy/s
So they'd be half g-men, half scammers, I imagine
You don't really have to worry too much for two reasons: As long as you aren't a dealer and aren't getting much, the police are unable to care too much. More importantly, I once ordered some mephedrone from Poland and it got seized by customs, with them just sending me a letter telling me it was seized and that I could appeal to get it back if I wanted. I suppose it's difficult for them to prove that I ordered it, not somebody else on my behalf. Dark Web stuff is done via Bitcoin and you use PGP encryption for your address. Each seller has a ratified thing like eBay, so you have the tools at your disposal to avoid being caught as long as you aren't stupid.
The usual stuff you'd expect from the DW. From what I read, it was to marketplaces which sold: Drugs. Illegal weapons. Money Laundering services. "Hackers for hire." Malware. Stolen credit cards and personal info to be used in fraud. One article I read about this mentioned a woman in Australia who sold Amphetamines and prescription drugs like Fentanyl.
I used to buy weed from the darknet. It worked great until I got absolutely screwed once. Order never showed and the whole market went to shit after. Thankfully I have a medical card now.
I'm curious too. I've never been obviously, but I kinda figured that web design on the deep web would be stuck in the 90s/early 2000s just because it's not exactly the kind of place where you need to be concerned with advertising your appearance.
The two biggest markets to have just shut down recently looked like this (these images are right off Google, and the sites are down now so): https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/707/7f3e66d4-58cd-40c9-9529-054f7f41223c/image.png https://i.imgur.com/A9nLkj4.jpg Most market sites have a review system and generally have an escrow system where you release funds once your goods arrives. They even have support teams to handle disputes for that.
Damn, even the post office is after them.
Regular bitcoin is not untraceable. Every transaction from and to another wallet leaves a paper trail, and if you know who a wallet ID belongs to then you can deduce things. IIRC, hiring a fake-hitman is partially how the FBI got silk road taken down
It's not illegal to browse, only to purchase AFAIK (referring, of course, to darknet markets only, not anything else on the darknet). Plus, tor is secure/hardened enough that visitors to these websites are basically impossible / not worth it to track down. The law enforcement agencies care about the people running the website and the vendors. If you bought $100k of weed maybe they'd care but just visiting the website isn't going to cause you any legal jeopardy.
The FBI's hitman game is no joke, it seems like you're always hearing about someone hiring an undercover FBI Agent.
You have to be pretty stupid to get caught in the first place. Not that I endorse that kind of thing.
If you're interested there is a guy that explores the dark web every week.He he close to 200 videos of just dark web browsing. But he can get annoying sometimes since he does tend to repeat the same phrases over and over again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IflmR5OUVb4
dont diss my papa mutahar like that
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