Don't Use Dark Web FBI Will Catch You? How?
You finally picked up the courage to visit the dark web and you took every necessary precaution to stay invisible to the authorities. At first, you were only going to look around and not actually purchase anything, but after a few of your buddies came around to your house you all decided you’d buy a big bag of illegal pills…not only that, after a few drinks. You weren’t concerned, you used a VPN, your IP address couldn’t be seen by any prying eyes.
And then, BOOM, one day the cops burst through your door. How on Earth did that happen? How did they find you? That’s what we’ll discuss today. 5. HackingFirst of all, you should know that a lot of people use the dark web for good reasons. Maybe they are journalists or political dissidents in countries with strict regimes, so some human rights advocates are happy that the authorities can't find people on the dark web. That’s why it was controversial when a cybercriminal named Eric Eoin Marques was arrested in 2013 and later got a prison sentence of 30 years. This guy was certainly in the wrong and was hosting websites within the dark that were selling drugs, hacking techniques, and money-laundering operations. He was huge, and it’s thought his cloud-computing company, Freedom Hosting, was hosting almost half of the sketchy websites within the dark web. The FBI got him. They found his server in France and subsequently tracked him down to Ireland. This shouldn’t have happened of course.
The Tor network this guy used was supposed to be impenetrable. But then one day users started seeing something weird, a new code running in websites hosted by Freedom Hosting. Suddenly, all the websites went down. That weird code exploited a Firefox vulnerability and so not only did the websites go down, but people using those websites were unmasked. Well, they were until they could update their software. Tens of thousands of IP addresses were exposed and some of those people that were exposed were arrested. That could have been you and you might have been seen buying bags of Columbia’s finest powder, but private email systems were also run on Freedom Hosting so journalists or freedom fighters may also have been exposed. So, that’s one way you could be found out using the dark web. The government might get its crack team of hackers together and create a code that exploits a vulnerability in some software. It might not mean they come knocking at your door, but your name will certainly be saved in the FBI’s database. You’ve been flagged. Thousands of people around the world have been arrested this way. In the U.S., the FBI won’t say how it hacks its way into the dark web, while in other countries, governments also keep their surveillance under wraps. In the U.K., the government gives its intelligence agencies something called “Bulk Powers”, which allows them to spy on people.
This 20-year old guy, who still lived with his mom, was found with a whopping 320 kilograms of drugs in his bedroom. Yep, you heard that right. He pretty much ran a drug empire from his bedroom and sold drugs from the dark web to people in Germany and in countries all over the world. He would usually use a PO Box, not a house or apartment number, and the person who picked the package was never the person’s name on the package. If the person was ever caught picking up the drugs, he or she could just say, “Hey, that’s not my name.” The thing is, this kid still needed to pick up the drugs. 320 kilos is quite a pile of powders and pills, and it was when he was picking up one of his packages that the cops got him. But guess what, when the cops looked on this kid's hard drive they found all the names and emails of all the people he’d been selling to. That included guys just buying for personal use – which was not much use to the cops – but it also included bulk buyers who wereselling on the streets of Germany and beyond. Someone on the dark web managed to get to this kid's profile and leave a message. That message read, “Dealers, run for your lives.” That’s the thing with the dark web…ifsomeone else gets caught, your information might be on their computer. That kid became a millionaire very fast, but now he’s in prison and will be for possibly another decade. The problem is, no sooner than the kid was behind bars, someone else had taken over his dark web domain. Sometimes though, you can get busted without even visiting the dark web! 1.
advertising last way people are caught is when they advertise their dark web marketplace on the very visible normal web that we all use. Yep, they use the normal web to direct people to the dark web. It’s a little silly, but Ross Ulbricht, the guy that ran the notorious Silk Road marketplace, did just that. He ran ads on a bitcoin web forum for the silk Road, and those ads could be traced back to him. For such a smart guy, he definitely missed several big brain moments.
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