foxnews.com/tech/facebook-dark-web-activity
Over two billion people use Facebook to buy and sell goods, chat with each other, and post vacation pictures. Now, according to a new report by Talos Intelligence, the social network is being harnessed by Dark Web cybercriminals as a place to sell credit card information, illegal contraband, and much more.
What's even more surprising, according to experts, is that this Dark Web activity isn't that dark or hard to find -- criminals sell credit cards right out in the open. One quick search for a term like "carding" (a criminal term for selling credit cards) reveals dozens of Facebook Groups.
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by c0lo on Sunday May 05 2019, @03:38AM (7 children)
Facebookcorewwwi.onion [wikipedia.org]
Same birth year as Soylentnews. I guess S/N shows it has some catching up to do, isn't, editors?
And yeah, fauxnews turns out to be the right outlet as a source for this Ketchup!
(I started to be fed up with this site)
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(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:15AM (4 children)
The existence of Facebook Tor access has nothing to do with the criminal activities described by the article. Mod parent off-topic.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by c0lo on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:26AM (3 children)
If you believe anonymity will be use exclusively for good. I have a bridge to sell you.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:52AM (2 children)
Parent so modded. Anything else?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:01AM (1 child)
Yes, please. If possible, an "Idiotic" mod added to the list,
Before "Offtopic" is so generally used that loses its meaning.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday May 08 2019, @06:24AM
Personally I'm hoping for "square root of -i0, spherically batshit"
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday May 05 2019, @08:55AM (1 child)
Look at Article. Or, look at Report. It's about Crooks on Facebook. People selling Stolen Credit Card, Stolen EMAILS (like Crooked's). Not about, some country wants to keep Facebook out but they can't because they got out smarted with special cyber. Totally different topic. And by the way, Report is dated April 5. 2019. If you we're having you're period when it came out, you're not even late yet!!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @09:38AM
Not much different from crooks on Tweeter.
And it's for idiots. [youtu.be]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:16AM (7 children)
*yawn*. still gotta login to that facebook account. i am not sure, since i don't use it, but somewhere
along the facebook.account registration a demand for a mobile phone number will probably spring up.
definitely for a email address.
so from there "law enforcement" should be aided fairly simply ...
on a side note: anyone have the origin of the term "dark net"? est.?
i personally think it's a misnomer and a very biased term.
the fact that i am sitting on some beach front of a hotel witha laptop and with wifi, load up TOR and now have a globally unique and reachable
identity from which all kinda internet services can be served seems not very ... dark but rather very FREE and LIBERATING!
i guess the bias to "dark" was intentional because "liberation net" means less bucks for identity sellers (domain names and fixed IPs)?
p.s. my firefox add-on just got disabled :(
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday May 05 2019, @07:10AM
Told yea [soylentnews.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @07:13AM (3 children)
"i am not sure, since i don't use it, but somewhere
along the facebook.account registration a demand for a mobile phone number will probably spring up.
definitely for a email address."
Pro tip: just because they ask you for this information doesn't mean you have to tell them the truth. But other than that, yeah, I don't use fuckbook either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @10:09AM (2 children)
I think one of the assholes made the argument that lying on the signup form was contrary to their terms and conditions, therefore your access was unauthorized, and hence a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Not enforced unless they want to get you for something else, but it is enough to make you plea bargain down to hanging yourself like Aaron.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:11PM (1 child)
you cant lie.
with most "free" services a email and/or telephon numbers needs to be verified. thus a link is sent to the provided email address -or- a sms with a "code" that has to be entered
on first login. for the email, a link has to be clicked to activate the service ...
for the SMS / mobile phone, as soon as you click "submit" you basically report your location too (the SMS has to find its way to a display that your eyes can see and we don't have extension cords for eye nerves yet?)
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday May 05 2019, @10:27PM
So many times they ask for the number, but I don't want to give them my number. That's O.K., it's no a big deal. Not a big deal at all.
Depending on how important it is, I'll wait until daytime. Or, maybe I don't wait. And I call my lawyer -- one of my lawyers -- I say get ready, the Text Message is coming through, call me back with the message. And I put his number in, he calls me with the message. So easy. And if someone comes after me I have tremendous protection. Known as Attorny Client Privilege. It's not what it used to be. But, it's still magnificent!!!!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Hyperturtle on Sunday May 05 2019, @12:54PM
I can't tell you the origin, but I can tell you that it has come to mean "The powers that be do not like it because they cannot find someone or something, and so "dark" is to mean "bad", "criminal", "negative", etc.
It used to be, that to get work done (at work), I'd be encouraged to... go dark. don't read emails, ignore the phone, and hide if I had to in order to prevent walk-ups and so on -- in order to get something done. Like a special operative 'going dark' to get a mission completed. Radio chatter and any unnecessary contact can blow the entire mission (or project).
Going dark had originally meant being incommunicado; someone that went dark is someone that couldn't be reached, and it could be for either good or bad reasons.
Now, it is painted as a bad thing, because only terrorists and criminals have something to hide, and they go dark to do it. The Dark Net in turn was at first assigned to Tor and really any other part of the internet that couldn't be easily reached via the traditional police methods -- this has evolved over time. Remember, using the internal chat program in an online game was once considered having gone dark because only cowards don't post terroristic intentions on twitter. Anything that required a lot of effort to figure out and required some sort of 'cyber' expert (whatever that is)... was the Dark Net or Dark Web.
The fact that this was brazenly done on Facebook via false registrations that defeated the purpose of easy to track stupid criminals posting publically about their crimes--means that it's still Dark because it requires a 'cyber' from somewhere to figure it out for the authorities because the traditional backdoor view into the social networks is not telling them who to arrest, instead, they just found the equivalent of a bunch of people smirking in Guy Fawkes masks as far as who to blame is concerned. They have no idea.
These are the dark arts of hackers, who didn't really hack... it's not the dark net... it's just people using the tool in a way that confounds the existing wizards. Thus, it's Dark.
Anything at all that cannot easily have light shone upon them by the powers of good to defeat some perceived evil is Dark, and right now, they don't really have a good term for what to call anonymity on Facebook. To that extent, you're right, what you are eluding to or inferred is correct--the modern media presentation of "Dark Net" and "Going Dark" is never positive and is repeatedly framed as a means to thwart law enforcement in some way.
"Loose lips sink ships, soldier" is one of those phrases that still is correct (perhaps more than ever in regards to one's personal security and privacy), but people that keep secrets seem to be treated darkly...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @06:06PM
They'll just ask to confirm what the FB app snarfed off your "friends'" phone.
(Score: 2) by Booga1 on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:20AM (6 children)
It used to be that idiots dealing drugs by posting on Facebook was so hilarious it would make the news as the cops would just go pick them up, easy peasy.
Is it now so common they cops are just overwhelmed and can't be bothered to go get everyone?
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:30AM (5 children)
Nope. We are past the age when men were men, women were man and young girls were FBI agents.
Today, only the FBI agents persist on internet forums with a purpose, hoping the world didn't run out of fools to take the bait.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:54AM (1 child)
Nice going blowing our cover, Agent...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Touché) by c0lo on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:58AM
Nah, I'm on S/N without any purpose.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:20AM (2 children)
Now that you mention it - it's been a long time since I've encountered a "young girl" on the internet who steered the conversation toward sexual encounters. Some of those were complete idiots. "Himynameisstephaniei'm12yearsolddoyouwanttomeetandfuck" within the first 15 seconds of discussion is such an obvious giveaway. The better ones were capable of carrying on a discussion, and just drop hints now and then, but most of them were awfully transparent. In all of my sixty-plus years, I've only met one real live girl under age fifteen who self-introduced, and immediately launched into a discussion of sex. From her first sentence, I was thinking, "Damn, this is weird!", and I got the hell away from her just as quickly as my wife permitted. THEN, I asked the wife why in hell she was even associating with that girl's mother. Totally fucked up!
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @07:13AM (1 child)
I can think of only one person that wouldn't get it, like, immediately. Oh, wait
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 05 2019, @07:42AM
As I've pointed out - some of those entrapment artists are more talented than others. On a forum for trucking discussions, there are some females, or people with female names, anyway. Talked with one off and on for days, before it started getting creepy. When she "admitted" that she was only fifteen is when I stopped talking to her. Not every sting is run by a complete idiot. If they were, they wouldn't have as many successes as they claim.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday May 05 2019, @08:46AM (1 child)
Maybe they're into wool crafts.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @06:08PM
Yeah, into fleecing you.