ILLUSTRATES Jean Magalhães
shooting
Anonymity attracts all kinds of crime, creating the dark alley of the Deep Web: the Darknet. In a documentary by Deputya German dealer classified it as a practical and reliable system for sell armaments. There, you can find everything from knives and guns to explosives and rifles, like the Bushmaster M4, from the Afghan armed forces. An AK 47 rifle costs US$ 2,800. The largest site of its kind has about 400 items for sale.
the man who copied
In deep internet forums, it is easy to find references to a certain Mr. Mouse (“Mr. Rat”) and his “Disney Dollars”. It’s not cute money to use in the Magic Kingdom, no: it’s counterfeit banknotes of US$ 20, 50 and 100. He guarantees that the money even manages to pass the test that merchants carry out to differentiate a fake banknote from a real one.
drug delivery
A journalist from The Guardian used a false name to buy 1 g of marihuana, for 1.16 bitcoin. Within two days, the weed arrived at her home in London in an envelope. According to her, the drug sites on the Darknet are as organized as eBay or Airbnb on the regular net. Toxics are even separated by price, quality, origin and effects
dual identity
the australian newspaper The Newcastle Herald reported the case of a 16-year-old teenager who requested a counterfeit driver’s license for US$140. He received the order three days later. An American ID costs around US$1,000 and a British one costs around £2,600. are also sold fake passports of various nationalities
credit cards for sale
In December 2013, data referring to 40 million credit cards were stolen due to a security breach during “black friday”, the traditional date of offers in the USA, after the Thanksgiving holiday. Guess where this information was sold? Yes, in batches on the Deep Web, making life easier for fraudsters worldwide
childhood destroyed
Probably the most shocking content on the Darknet is the movies and photos of child pornography. According to ECPAT, an international coalition of civil society organizations that fight against the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, there is even live streaming of videos in which children are coerced into performing sexual acts.
WHAT ABOUT RENTAL KILLERS?
Newspaper Says They’re There Too, But Experts Think The Journal Was Misled
the british newspaper daily mail published a vast article about assassins for hire on the Deep Web, including shocking statements collected on websites that managed them (see below). But experts believe the pages could be fake. Prices, for example, would be impractical in bitcoin (£10,000 for one death in the US, £12,000 for one in Europe). In addition, this type of professional would preferentially use temporary sites, with less risk of being caught by the law.
Some of the alleged confessions gathered by the daily mail on Darknet sites:
– “I always do my best to make death look like an accident or suicide”
– “I no longer have empathy for human beings”
– “The best place to put your problems is in a grave”
– “Killing is wrong. But since this is an inevitable direction of technological evolution, I’d rather I do it myself, not someone else.”
CURRENCY TRADING
Understand why bitcoin is the favorite money on the Deep Web
Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009 by a programmer with the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. It only exists online and transactions are encrypted so users can be anonymous. This is what spurred its use on the virtual black market. Rather than using bank accounts at a financial institution as an intermediary, amounts spent with bitcoin are transferred between web addresses, called “wallets”, by a computer or smartphone. The system uses a database spread over the internet to record transactions and uses cryptography to guarantee security and certification.
THIS IS PART 4 OF THE ARTICLE MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP WEB. Check out the others:
Part 1: What is the Deep Web?
Part 2: Is every site on the Deep Web evil?
Part 3: How does it make your browsing secret?
Part 5: Which criminals have been arrested?
Part 6: What are the biggest false rumors and urban legends about DW?
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CONSULTANCYIlya Lopes, Awareness & Research specialist at Eset Brasil, Thomas Soares, engineer and deputy coordinator of Associação Software Livre, Denis Shestakov, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media Technology at Aalto University, in Finland, and Media Center Independent from Rio de Janeiro
SOURCESWebsitesBright Planet,World Wide WebSizeIt isAnonymousbooksTheDeep Web: Surfacing Hidden Valueby Michael K. Bergman, andSampling the National Deepby Denis Shestakov