Instead of having to wait for a Dark Web site like Silk Road to get big enough to track because of its real-world impact, law enforcement agencies-and even executives worried about corporate espionage-can follow trails of data exchanges.
Although the company cannot deanonymize people using the Dark Web, it can see which sites they’re visiting and the types of data they are exchanging. IntelliAgg’s tracking and mapping methodology has the potential to become a powerful new tool for law enforcement. “I can’t tell you who is looking at the biggest niche porn site, but now I can tell you what that site is.” People had just started mapping it then,” said Emerson Tan, a technical adviser to IntelliAgg. The Dark Web “is like the Internet circa 1999. Those sites were dedicated to marketplaces for trading child pornography, drugs, weapons, money laundering, computer-hacking services, and stolen financial data such as credit card numbers and corporate secrets.īy comparison, the Internet-at-large that you can access through a standard Web browser included an estimated 1 billion sites as of 2014. Of the nearly 30,000 Dark Web sites the company mapped, it has so far analyzed the contents of more than 8,000 sites and discovered illegal content on 49 percent of them through a combination of automated computer and human analysis. It is releasing a report ( PDF) about its findings on Monday here at the annual computer security-focused RSA Conference. Using a combination of human and computer analysis, British computer security intelligence company IntelliAgg has determined that the stable portion of the deliberately hidden Dark Web turns out to be smaller, but also far more heavily skewed toward illicit use, than previously thought. And the map resembles a constellation of interconnected stars. It's best for you to stay away.SAN FRANCISCO-What if there weren’t just a handful of illegal online drug marketplaces like “ Silk Road” that exist on the shadowy fringes of the Internet, but rather hundreds and possibly thousands? New research for the first time accurately maps such hidden Internet back alleys.
So it shouldn't be shocking that it makes up a huge chunk of the internet. Still, the dark web seems mostly designed appeal to the worst in people. As we learned in the dark web episode of Codebreaker, shopping through Tor can also give you access to medications that are cheaper and easier to obtain if you don't have insurance. Some of what you can do on the dark web is morally ambigious, but still helpful. The good news is that authorities are getting better at tracking that activity on the dark web, as we saw in the big Silk Road case a few months ago. There have been stories of murder-for-hire jobs and child porn on the dark web too. That's not even touching the worst of it. It goes without saying that much of what you can buy on the dark web is illegal: counterfeit currency, hacked Spotify accounts, stolen smartphones, and hardcore drugs. A female protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask participates in an anti-government rally organised by Bahrain's main opposition group Al Wefaq, in the village of Salmabad south of Manama, April 12, 2013.
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