Any local darknet marketplaces?

Has any darknet marketplace tried focusing on a local area, such as San Francisco, and using something like geocaching for distribution? I feel like if the drugs were planted in an area before hand the dealer wouldn't have anything incriminating at their house, and they would just need list of gps coordinates. Additionally finding a random package of drugs seems like it has a good case for plausible deniability.

I'm sure that there are huge hurdles to come over with this idea, but it could offer some advantages over delivery and seems like such a strategy might work and may have already been tried.

I can't even imagine the media ruckus it would cause if this started occurring in local areas. An oobvious problem is for the buyer to get the package, but that may not be as big of problem as it sounds.


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[7 Points] derp_sergeant:

As someone who has geo cached before, it would be kind fun going on a hunt, finding said product, dosing, and trying to find your way back!


[2 Points] FP444:

What are you doing in that tree, sir? "Oh...Officer! Just geocaching..."


[3 Points] None:

Sounds like an awful idea, it'd be hard to have plausible deniability and vendors would be caught pretty easily (Sure, for a sale here and there, great, but most likely vendors are going to be using the same multiple spots.

All it takes is SFPD to be a vendor and bust buyers. On DNM, even if LE is a vendor, it might be sent out of their jurisdiction, it might be sent to someone else's address.


[3 Points] galaxyandspace:

Do you think average people are smart enough to be users and creators of a system like that? I don't think so....


[2 Points] -BobLoblaw:

But what happens when someone inevitably finds a package of what they think is coke and rails a huge line, only to drop dead because it was actually pure fentanyl...


[1 Points] jackibrown:

I have thought about that myself. The order is placed, a radios of X miles is given around a certain area the dealer hide the product only later communicates to the buyer the exact location. Buyer collects and releases escrow. It would work.


[1 Points] Vespco:

Also it is worth considering how small these packages would be - things like DMT, LSD, etc could easily be hidden in the form of litter in plain site. Even ounce quantities of drugs are still pretty small.


[1 Points] None:

One time I was smoking at the park thing, and found one of those orange geo cache tubes under the bench i was sitting at. Hidden as fuck. we opened it up and theres a long list of names and dates of people who found it. I was thinking about leaving a joint in there for somebody else. too bad that orange thing isn't there anymore, i think somebody stole it or moved it.


[1 Points] Pantek51:

I think I've read the Russian only marketplace works like this ?


[1 Points] ___themindmachine:

So I'd like to share some thoughts to gauge responses from this group for intellectual embetterment and journalistic integrity.

Obviously there would be problems with geocaching because the trust would then be disproportionate. Vendor would know where you're going, and could be unfriendly.

What if you had a combination of two different techs. One is in iOS7 and they're working on it for android - mesh networking. Where you have an app like bitmessage but one that also runs "local service discovery." So the first is an app/networking tech for finding local whatever. Second tech is the human protocol, remember main fail point is still human/social. This would demand instead of blind drop, vendor picks drop point, drops product, and waits for buyer to appear. Buyer must then lick/gum/smoke said presumptively legal product in this hypothetical case to prove non-LE, followed by seller doing same. Both then on tech one app/net push a confirmation that both note each other to be legit, building a persistent trust chain that can be referenced when searching. Tech one would require a sandboxed encrypted mesh networking app/data but that's not unachievable. Tech two just requires some balls and ensuring that your sandbox/encryption is locked up tight before you even approach the scenario. *** plus a basic script to follow, words to say, say nothing else/other until protocol check completed.

I'm just wondering because I'm researching this academically whether such a system would have flaws or not, and whether they are fixable. I for one have concerns about these sorts of technologies and techniques but they are already employed in some cases (spies), and frankly it's interesting how a wave of cannabis legalization is proceeding through the states on many levels from medical to personal freedom.


[0 Points] 42isincorrect:

Too much vendor risk, stupid idea. Continue to use the post till drone delivery becomes realistic. For drugs you could literally drop them from 30 meters up.