ATS3462 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jaywalking, Victimless Crime, The Onion
28 May 2018
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Week 4 -The Dark Web
Lecture
• Clear web
o Everything that everyone can see and can be googled for
o Billions of sites
o ie: a aks hoepage
• Deep web
o Eey page that at e eahed y a google seah o though a oal ose
o Ie: your accounts
• Darknet
o Closed networks
o Ie: Tor
• Dark Web
o Websites you can get to using the darknet
o Hundreds of thousands of sites
o Ie illegal trafficking services (drugs etc)
• Tor
o Browsing the internet anonymously
o Nothing illegal about it, just privacy
o Search bar searches the clear web
• Dark web addresses:
o 16 random characters
o End in .onion like .o et
o Cannot be accessed without Tor browser (or something similar)
• Entering dark web
o Need to have a link/exact address
o Or can use entry points
• Things in the dark web
- Darknet markets
- Hitmen
- Hurtcore
• Darknet markets
o Mass markets
▪ Drugs, weapons, stolen identity information, stolen credit cards, hacking
tools, malware, poisons
o Niche Markets
▪ Single/limited product
▪ Only sell one type of product (ie cannabis)
o Centralised markets
▪ Market has one owner, and owner makes it available to buyers and sellers
▪ Site owner takes payment and holds in escrow
▪ Only released when buyer and seller agree
o Decentralised markets
▪ Buyer and seller deal directly
• Features of Darknet markets
o Have a rating system (like amazon/ebay) for both buyers and sellers
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Document Summary
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