Slide 1

NEW PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES (NPS): BUILDING KNOWLEDGE AND EVIDENCE BASED TRAINING THROUGH RESEARCH Qualitative research: Monitoring anonymous online drug marketplaces Thursday 5 th March 2015 Tim Bingham Qualitative research: Monitoring anonymous online drug marketplaces Thursday 5 th March 2015 Tim Bingham

Slide 2

TIMETABLE 09:30 09:45 Introductions 09:45 11:00 Background to the history of the dark net websites 11:00 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 11:45 How the qualitative research was undertaken 11:45 12:15 Ethics 12:15 13:00 Practical: a) PGP Encryption b) Accessing Tor Network 13:00 13:30 Lunch Break c) Accessing dark net websites and forums d) Social Media 14:45 -15:15 Questions

Slide 3

Historic background to the Hidden web drug markets How the qualitative research was undertaken in previous studies Ethical considerations Practical o PGP Encryption o Accessing Tor Network o Accessing dark net websites and forums Utilising Social Media

Slide 4

INTERNET DRUG MARKETS The alt online newsgroup provided a forum for information sharing. Alt.drug and Alt.drugs.chemistry (created in 1994) Discussions how to grow cannabis, manufacture and the synthesis of Drugs, this included a private messaging system Illicit drugs have been bought and sold on the internet since it was first established. According to Markoff (2005)

Slide 5

The Hive, which was established in 1997 introduced the integrated market to the online trade eventually shut down in 2004 http://thehivemwon6a5mp.onion/

Slide 6

The goal of Onion Routing is not to provide anonymous communication. Parties are free to (and usually should) identify themselves within a message. But the use of a public network should not automatically give away the identities and locations of the communicating parties. For example, imagine a researcher who uses the World Wide Web to collect data from a variety of sources. Although each piece of information that he retrieves is publicly known, it may be possible for an outside observer to determine his sensitive interests by studying the patterns in his requests. Onion Routing makes it very difficult to match his HTTP requests to his site. David. M Goldschlag, Michael G. Reed& Paul F. Syverson, Hiding Routing Information, Workshop on Information Hiding, Cambridge, UK, 1996. http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~fabian/ courses/CS600.424/course_papers/goldschlag96hiding.pdf

Slide 7

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE DRUGS AND THE HIDDEN WEB 2009 The drug store A Figment Of Your Imagination Binary Blue Stars Open Vendor Data Base Tor Browser launched 2002 Feb 2011 Silk Road

Slide 8

The Deep Web is a secure and confidential communication lines by encryption of computer IP addresses using Tor anonymising software or web proxy to the Tor network (http://tor2web.org ). There is a shift toward widespread global availability of all drugs which is evident in the recent online presence of drug marketplaces

Slide 9

The launch of Silk Road as a competing public drug site was a challenge to the viability of OVDB, and particularly as Silk Road received significant publicity and attention. Traffic to the site soared and demand for the virtual currency drove up the value of one bitcoin to more than $30 within weeks of the articles publication Norris & Moses (2011)

Slide 10

Silk Road Vendors Advertising Page

Slide 11

Slide 12

JABBER Download Pidgin Accounts > Manage Accounts > Add On the Basic tab, change the Protocol to XMPP. Type in a username. Domain: jabber.ccc.de Type in a password Click the box at the bottom 'Create this new account on the server'jabber.ccc.de

Slide 47

http://kingdomazsnvzfuq.onion/

Slide 48

http://k5zq47j6wd3wdvjq.onion/register

Slide 49

THANK YOU Tim Bingham Email info@timbingham.ieinfo@timbingham.ie 086 389 3530 Twitter @binghaminfo