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FBI has seized Deep Dot Web and arrested its administrators – TechCrunch
FBI has seized Deep Dot Web and arrested its administrators Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker / 2 days
The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces.
Two suspects were arrested in Tel Aviv and Ashdod, according to Israel’s Tel Aviv Police, which confirmed the arrests in a statement earlier in the day. Local media first reported the arrests.
Arrests were also made in France, Germany and the Netherlands. A source familiar with the operation said a site administrator was arrested in Brazil.
Deep Dot Web is said to have made millions of dollars in commission by offering referral links to dark web marketplaces, accessible only at .onion domains over the Tor Network. Tor bounces internet traffic through a series of random relay servers dotted across the world, making it near-impossible to trace the user.
Its .onion site displayed a seized notice by the FBI, citing U.S. money laundering laws. Its clear web domain no longer loads.
Feds Seize DeepDotWeb for Taking Money From Black Market Sites
foxnews.com/tech/feds-seize-deepdotweb-for-taking-money-from-black-market-sites
DeepDotWeb was a popular resource to find underground websites, which can often only be visited via the Tor browser. The site itself also indexed the top black market platforms. But on Tuesday, DeepDotWeb's main page was replaced with a notice claiming the FBI had seized the site.
[...] It's not illegal to post a link to a black market site, even though they deal in goods such as drugs, stolen data, and child pornography. However, DeepDotWeb may have done more than simply function as a resource to help visitors navigate the dark web. Allegedly, the owners received bitcoin from black market sites in exchange for publishing links to them. According to Israeli police, the owners of DeepDotWeb had been raking in millions through their "affiliate marketing" business.
[Ed. Note - 5/10/19 14:24 UTC - I updated this story to fix a bad merge of two unrelated stories. My apologies. - Fnord666]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @04:25PM (3 children)
So they are guilty of exercising freespeech and being the same as google. They are not selling the actual illegal items, just serving as a gateway/search engine. Just *talking* about it...
Or did i miss something ?
So does that mean Ford is liable for offering a truck that you can use to carry meth in? ( i used to say pot, but that is legal in some places now..... )
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @07:40PM (1 child)
Yes you did. They knowingly took payments (in this case bitcoin) from businesses that generated their profits from illegal activity. That makes them a participant in money laundering. And that is why they got arrested.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @08:50PM
yeah, and that's a bunch of bullshit. google makes money off of ads for illegal shit all the time. no feds are investigating that. it's still not money laundering. accepting money from people you know are criminals is not money laundering. washing money as a service is money laundering. these feds want people to believe that any money that could have come from illegal sources is money laundering. that's because the feds are criminal scum.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday May 10 2019, @09:43PM
You missed something. There's a difference between offering search items to other independently hosted websites and you yourself facilitating the hosting of said concept.
If you go to your Ford dealer and say, "Yep, I want a great big van that I can haul plenty of meth in," and the Ford dealer just sells you a van that works, yes that dealer is liable for conspiracy to facilitate a crime.
If you go to Ford motor company and say, "Yes, we want a fleet of vans that is perfect for hauling our marijuana around in," and they just supply you with them, yes, Ford would be liable for conspiracy to facilitate a crime.
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