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
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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
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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
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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)
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The Hive, which was established in 1997 introduced the
integrated market to the online trade eventually shut down in 2004
http://thehivemwon6a5mp.onion/
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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Silk Road Vendors Advertising Page
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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
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http://kingdomazsnvzfuq.onion/
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http://k5zq47j6wd3wdvjq.onion/register
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THANK YOU Tim Bingham Email
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