How the world's police are taking on the Dark Net

How the world's police are taking on the Dark Net

Comey emphasized the Five Eyes partnership, an intelligence alliance between the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.K., that plays a major role in cybercrime investigations, not to mention counterintelligence and counterterrorism.

The U.K. is currently making a concentrated effort to expand its cybercrime investigative reach around the world. The National Crime Agency (NCA), the country's equivalent of the FBI, is launching into a strategy to work with private security firms globally. The idea is explicitly modeled after the American example.

The Americans, meanwhile, are placing more agents overseas including permanent Cyber Assistant Legal Attachés in London, Ottawa, and Australia.

As far as the United States and its allies are concerned, the biggest problem in this world is apparently Russia, "where it's very hard for us to get cooperation and get the actors apprehended," Comey explained. "And so we have to hope to grab them when they leave the country and travel. The good news is, all the successful cybercriminals have lots of dough and want to go on vacation and that's where, with our partners, we grab 'em up."

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[26 Points] None:

Police utilized unspecified “new techniques” to deanonymize the Dark Net servers around the globe in an action that shook the very foundation of confidence in Tor’s ability to hide its users.

The exact techniques law enforcement used haven’t been revealed.

Good old Non-Disclosure Agreements.


[19 Points] Theeconomist1:

They forgot to mention techniques including modding on a Reddit sub. Oh wait that's an unspecified new technique.

That was for my bud /u/vendor_bbmc and /u/hank_vendor


[8 Points] AloeVeraAccount:

Is this something /r/DarkNetMarkets should be worried about ?


[5 Points] noseybast:

GCHQ are the power in the UK not the NCA


[5 Points] Moridakkubokka:

It's crazy, the US has its dirty fingers in every country besides fucking Russia and maybe North Korea.

The US is too strong and influental, it wants to create an world empire in secret, it needs to be toppled.


[3 Points] somaganjika:

I've noticed that this sub uses the dark net mostly for victim-less purposes. It's a shame that consequences are blown out of proportion for these substances. As a result these markets have opened which are a breeding ground for violent trade.


[3 Points] JailsucksLEtoo:

they are shitting bricks because DNMs have taken away more drug's death related, violence and shitty cut drugs from the streets in few years than all the cops of the world did in 50 years of idiot, dumb war on drugs. And UK is the most hypocrite government of the world... they enforce a bloody war on drugs while the city of London is and remain the biggest center of money laundering of drug lords of the globe. More I learn about war on drugs, more it looks idiot