Easiest Catch: Don't Be Another Fish in the Dark Net | Derrick Day | TEDxWakeForestU

Alright, Steven Alwine, a gentleman, he lives in Minnesota, he was an elder in his church, but he found the Ashley Madison website, for those of you who don't know what it is. It is a website where married people can make dates and not with their spouse. Mr. Alwine had decided it was a good idea, he had done this several times and decided it was okay, I was done getting married, I didn't want to be married anymore, so a reasonable person could say okay, divorce, not Mr. . Alwine decided I'm going to have my wife killed, so how do we do it?

He does some research, goes to the

dark

web and finds a hitman five thousand dollars later, these guys have the contract up, he thinks okay, the day comes. and says his wife is supposed to be dead, she's not, so Mr. Alwine goes back to the hitman to complain, maybe he's not smart, but that's what whether he believed it or not, the hitman salary was sympathetic to his cause because for that price of $5,000 he had hired. Team B isn't the best we had, but luckily for him, the 18th was available, it's only $20,000 for them. They are going to do the right thing.

They credit the 5000 he already spent, so he just needs to give them

another

one. 15 and they will establish a new new contract with the 18th, we will do it, so he agrees that he has the condition that it must be finished next Sunday, so the hitman says okay, Sunday comes and goes, his Wife is. I'm still alive, so Mr. Alwine, I guess thinking about the holidays, I've been fooled. I'm out 20 grand, but I still don't want to get married, so he decides to kill his wife. In the stages of suicide, he goes and picks up his 8-year-old son. adopted son says son, let's go find mom and go to dinner, this son goes in to look for mom and finds mom dead, supposed suicide, yeah, he's not a good guy, so what do I start with this story ?

Because I mentioned the

dark

web and that's it. What I'm going to talk about today maybe you know what it is maybe you don't maybe you've heard of it maybe you haven't, but we're going to talk about how it's used and abused in such dark ways. The web actually started as a US Navy research project. They wanted to have a medium that would allow them to use the Internet to communicate, but they wanted to do it silently, where they knew no one would know how to be anonymous, so they started this project. . and this technology comes along that, hey, we can make it so we can be anonymous to fellow Trekkies.

They build a Romulan cloaking device, so unfortunately, like what Captain Kirk wrote, the Romulan cloaking device escapes and finds its way into the private sector. the world gets this technology, this tool, and we develop what becomes the dark web, you say, well, Derek, if it's just this little thing out there, why is it so important? Well, I think we can agree that Google is a monster, right? It's a big deal and surely Google has reached the end of the Internet with its vast resources. Well, that's not entirely correct, depending on the source I looked for. Google can index between five and 14 percent of what's on the Internet to give us access when we do our searches regardless of the number, it's a very, very small part of what's out there, so how are we going to think about the dark web?

Well, I like to think about it. I'm from South Dakota, so it's Deadwood South Dakota circa 1860, right? the wild west there's no sheriff in town you're not going to tell me what I can do you're not going to tell me what I can't do I'm going to buy I'm going to sell you know everything I want is open season and that's the case, we just listen to mr. Alwin you can hire a hitman you can buy guns you can buy drugs you can buy credit cards human trafficking happens on the dark web the Super Bowl was in Minneapolis the company I worked for worked with the NFL and their fight against trafficking of people a group that had something and that happens at big events because unfortunately that goes along with these big events and more than 90% of the cases that they knew of, people were using the dark web to organize their meetings instead of just talking of it.

I'm going to take us out, we're going to take a look at what the dark web is, so now what I've done, I've loaded them in advance, but I'm in a browser here, so we're actually out. Looking on the dark web I can click on things and we can and we could go, so this is a UK passport, you say, okay, name of my choice that could be beneficial a thousand pounds, as a man that's a lot of money to a fake passport, well if you read a little closer this is not a fake passport it is a legitimate passport and supposedly they have someone working on the inside who will enter this into the UK database in their government database , so if someone pulls it off as if, that person is good.

I know it says you can travel to the UK and the EU on this particular website, but I can also come to the US with a British passport, so you guys say, that's cool, gentlemen,

another

businessman from Minnesota Traveling abroad returns through Apple Airport. Customs does a cursory search on his computer and finds questionable images of young people, so the airport police stop, call our company and say, "Hey, can you do the forensics on this right on this computer?" We started reviewing the footage and found additional criminal activity, so we stopped it. He goes back to the airport.

Please say, "Hey, we found what we're looking for." You know, good job guys, you were dissuaded, but we found some additional information here. We need another court order to be able to continue and what this gentleman had done was he was a prominent businessman, he was rich, he decided that he no longer wanted to be married but he didn't want to give his wife half of his things. , so he left. to this exact website you get a UK passport in the name of your choice and return abroad you hire a company to set up a trust you start selling your family assets you put it into accounts that this trust controls in the name of your choice and He comes back to the United States right now, he has nothing, half of nothing is nothing, so he realizes, hey, I can keep living, my life would still have all my money, fortunately, although because of this case, gentleman, you are now a guest in the state of Minnesota. for the next 12 years, this one's interesting, this one, the next one, and you'll say, Derek, it's broken and that's the point I'm going to talk about.

I'll come back here in just a second, but this website was yesterday. When I was checking this it was working and it's this website that we hear about counterfeit credit cards being sold on the dark web so this is an example of that but also Wild West stuff comes and goes so of course overnight. for some reason, whether some law enforcement agency caught this guy or something happened, but his wit, his website no longer exists, that's a good thing, but the interesting thing I would like to point out here is that we have credit cards, but If you look at that second option it says PayPal, what the hell does that mean?

Well, this guy will send a compromised PayPal account. You tell him it's like 10 cents on the dollar, so you give him $350 and he claims he'll give you access to a PayPal account. Now he has 3,500 Blum dollars, you can take out all the money and continue with your business. It's a pretty good business plan. The other one, Western Union, also seemed interesting to me. He says he can intercept a transfer, so I guess. you have someone working inside Western Union, you can intercept that wire transfer and have them send it to you and again you charge about a dime on the dollar for that, but again, Wild West is not there, you can see there is a website that you are trying to access. the address I said weapons, right weapons on the dark web, this guy has several that he will sell, yeah, okay, come this way.

The good thing about this guy, you know, you know what you're going to buy, his weapons are new and unused, so drugs are very important on the dark web, this is one of our favorites, this guy sells psychedelics, but again , he's a businessman, so he wants to try to make sure that what you're getting is good, so he makes sure his products are good. rigorously rigorously tested if you can see that here all the products are tested by ourselves remember that a mind is a terrible thing to waste on these people it's more drugs of different types if you can ignore or look beyond heroin and cocaine and all that appearance at the top is the people's pharmacy and where they are, they will pride themselves on offering the best quality products and competitive prices, doing everything they can to go above and beyond when it comes to customer satisfaction, right, you can probably find it at Amazon, right? some small market, that's their goal, maybe Walmart, right, that's their goal too, so these people know it's a business and if it wasn't, you know if you didn't have a warm fuzz, but they're also trying to transfer savings if Look here in the middle, it says that the heroin they offer comes directly from the importer.

They're going to cut out the middleman again. They will pass those savings on to you if you weren't already convinced. They're going to try to educate us what the difference is between heroine number three and number four says most people know that I don't admit it anymore, but they're going to educate us and they just said as an example here it's right at the bottom here's the ecommerce part of their website and get what you want now spell checker apparently not a drug dealer you can get a quarter of a gram so this guy here girl advertises that she's an over the counter drug store sounds great, Believe it or not, we actually had an assistant. an event, asking us once is not so legitimate.

I have a recipe, yes, yes, the answer is no, it's not, but this person was really interesting. What they asked was: I have a prescription for my medications over the years, I can't. pay it more, it's too expensive, whether the drug goes up, if my interest goes up, whatever the reason, it's too expensive, but I need it, whether I'm in pain or whatever, so these guys, I can afford it in one. from these sites I have a prescription for it, you know, my doctor is doing it, that doesn't make it legit again. The answer is no, but let me give you a little example of why you might not want to do it, so let's say a few years ago you had hip replacement surgery, knee replacement, something big, there were some complications in that surgery and you were in pain, so years ago the doctor put you on pain medication, let's say if I could get in, then you have your vicodin, you have to do it. take four at a time, I mean, you're in a lot of pain, so you do this after many years, so we come to today and opioids, there's a problem with prescription abuse right, that worries us, so your doctor says, Hey, come on. check this out I think we should try to get all that vicodin off you so your doctor can start doing that you know instead of four pills you know three two and you know you don't feel good you're still in pain.

If so, this doesn't work. I'm not abusing my pills. I need them. You know, I'm taking what he told me to take to get rid of the pain, so I'm going to go to one of these places where I can get my pills. vicodin and I will do what I was prescribed before. I'm not going to take more. I'm not going to take less. Alright. The person who runs his over-the-counter pharmacy also knows how to shop on the dark web. So they go and buy powdered synthetic fentanyl and get a proper pharmaceutical grade pill that they can squeeze into pills that look like vicodin and they start making that boom.

The margin of vicodin is very low, right, it is very expensive, so this type is not. worried about him he wants profits right he's a businessman so he's not worried about your pain he's worried about his profits so that's what he does you buy him vicodin you do it right you get him back you watch your pills like a man that looks like what the doctor gave me boom I'm saving money but I still have my prescription what's the problem with fentanyl is 14 times stronger than vicodin so now instead of taking four of your vicodin Now you have taken 56 and that will be the age? -old story right, Rockstar hotel room dead in bed, so that's an example of why you might not want to do that, so you can ask if what we're doing here is illegal.

Am I breaking the law by browsing the dark web? The answer is no, because remember how the dark web started, as it was a convenient tool for anonymity, that's what technology is, it's just been abused. If I take a hammer, I can build a beautiful house or I can take that same hammer and destroy a priceless object. work of art, this is how I use that tool, these guys are using it for evil, you say, okay, what is it for? Well, let's say you are in a country where the Internet is not as free and open as it is here in the United States. a political dissident whatever the reason, whatever it may be, you need a way to communicate outside of that country, well, this would be a way todo it right, you can keep in touch with your family, you know whatever, but it would be a legitimate way. reason to use the tool that uses the dark web.

Legitimate markets are starting to appear. You also know that real retailers use this dark web technology because they believe that our customers want to be anonymous for whatever reason, so again, right capitalism, we're going to try to do that, we'll give them a market, but those are legit, you know, here is one that we can all recognize, it is Facebook, but it is using technology, this onion dot at the end shows that it is using that technology. be anonymous on the internet, that's dark, what the dark web uses now, you also realize, a popup appears, people want to be anonymous, but Facebook wants to get more things, you have to allow some, that's what you ask me Hey, we want to use your stuff.

That makes it less anonymous, but at first glance Facebook is trying to use that to give people the ability to use this technology and be anonymous while browsing the Internet if they want, so that you don't know everyone in the dark. The web is a criminal, but I can guarantee you that most criminals use the dark web, so I hope this gives you an idea of ​​what can and cannot be done and why it can or cannot be done. . something good thank you very much