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Combating Crime on the Dark Web

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234984
Pages 138 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Nearchos Nearchou Nearchos Nearchou
Profile icon Nearchos Nearchou

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Introduction to Cybercrime and Dark Web’s History
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Cybercrime 3. Chapter 2: An Introduction to the Dark Web 4. Part 2:The Dark Web’s Ecosystem and Major Crimes
5. Chapter 3: Drug Markets on the Dark Web 6. Chapter 4: Child Pornography on the Dark Web 7. Chapter 5: Human Trafficking on the Dark Web 8. Chapter 6: Cyberterrorism on the Dark Web 9. Part 3:Efforts to Combat Crimes on the Dark Web
10. Chapter 7: Efforts for Combating Crime on the Dark Web 11. Chapter 8: System for Combating Crime on the Dark Web 12. Chapter 9: Discussion and Evaluation 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

What enables transactions between buyers and sellers

Anonymization services, such as TOR, enable users to hide, meaning that they can browse the internet without revealing their personal identification details. Additionally, specific services allow websites to be anonymously hosted by hiding the servers’ location—a feature known as hidden services. Because of these characteristics, dark markets can sell illegal products in an open fashion, providing a highly anonymous comfort to their users. While anonymization services have largely been recognized for illegal, often criminal reasons, their original purpose was different. There are many permissible and legal purposes for which citizens may wish to use these hidden services—for example, news leaks, whistleblowing, anonymous browsing, and many others.

In the last few years, there has been a dramatic expansion in the sale of various illegal substances on the Dark Web drug markets, with online sales estimated to...

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