#HOW TO GET ON BLACK MARKET SOFTWARE#
Physical and digital illicit goods have become as easily accessible and point-and-click as an Amazon purchase, and now this has yielded a new generation of the underground Internet ("dark web").įinally, we explore how this almost social media-level of ease available on many dark web black market websites has resulted in a new genre: boutique exploits and software vulnerability trading. From there, we discover how that attitude and new anonymizing technology solutions, namely TOR and Bitcoin, spawned a new, easy-to-use environment for even the everyday layman to purchase illicit goods. We find that a rebellious attitude, which we discuss in the prior section, largely drives these users, even knowing they face potentially decades in prison for their crimes if caught. We continue to explore this "why" factor by examining one of these entities in person, discussing with the very people involved in these activities what their motives and agenda are. We briefly explore why sellers (and buyers) take the risk, in spite of increased penalty and raids. Systems like Bulletin Board Systems, Usenet, and later websites on the budding World Wide Web provided a home to these activities. Starting with, and for the longest time still existing on decades-old Internet technology, we explore the slow, progressive evolution on this platform. Those risks were mitigated with cryptocurrencies, but we explore how even the new, supposedly anonymous cryptocurrency solution is not without risk or incredible insecurity, either.įrom there, we learn how digital black markets began pretty much with the beginnings of the Internet itself. Digital black markets have existed long prior to these anonymous, digital currencies – called cryptocurrencies due to using peer-to-peer encrypted and signed communications similar to BitTorrent – but those markets had existed for a long time much like their analogue predecessors, using cash or bank accounts. We first explore how the concept of currency evolved into a digital, anonymous form – a critical component of the modern vulnerabilities and illicit goods black market. In this article, we explore the evolution of the digital black market.
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