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Re: Dark Web – Justice League

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Post by IAmGraydon »

MetaWhirledPeas wrote: post #58
vmception wrote: post #42

Do yourself a favor and demystify the dark web for yourself. Some of the best information is exclusively nestled in forums and marketplaces over there. If you rely on an incentive model of being caught in order to behave, something darknet doesnt offer, that says more about you than anyone else.

I'm curious about the dark web like I am with a lot of technology, but I've always been subject to a (perhaps self-imposed) chilling effect where I fear being "marked" simply for researching the tools. Am I just being paranoid/chicken?

I have little doubt that my ISP logs each time I connect to Tor. What happens to this information from that point? Who knows. I won't live in fear, as that is the same thing as oppression, only self-imposed.

Re: Dark Web – Justice League

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Post by andrewxdiamond »

klodolph wrote: post #93
gime_tree_fiddy wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought NJ legalized to the level of CA, where you can there are dispensaries and stuff, no?

It takes time from legalization to when businesses appear. Most states, it seems, at least a couple years.

That time delay is due to needing to spontaneously build an entire supply chain for weed in-state, as it can’t be moved across state borders. Farms, transportation, financing, retail space, zoning, regulations, and more.

Takes a long time for weed to make it to consumers, but it also creates a huge local industry since everyone has to work within the state, at least when dealing directly with the product.

Re: Dark Web – Justice League

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Post by reggieband »

There is a comic I remember from my childhood, "Tom the Dancing Bug" written by Ruben Bolling. He had a character called "Harvey Richard, Lawyer for Children". I linked a couple of examples [1], [2], [3], [4] but the satire, IMO, is incredible. It lampoons humanities proclivity to layer pseudo-rationality onto the irrational things that we do.

It also reminds me of the TV show "The Wire" when Stringer Bell, a senior member of a street drug distribution ring of urban thugs, forces them to conduct their meetings using Rules of Order. [5] If you watch to the end, you see that in those circumstances order means nothing, it is just a facade.

I guess you could say that I'm cynical about the prospects of such a court and I tend to see the underlying truth in the satires that point it out.

1. https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2015/02/26

2. https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2014/12/25

3. https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/545850417313484171/

4. https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/178807047675716661/

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO1zxPRRf4g

Re: Dark Web – Justice League

#104

Post by cs702 »

"Meet the new boss: same as the old boss." - The Who

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDfAdHBtK_Q

Actually, I suspect the new "bosses" of the dark web's newfangled justice system are in fact much worse than the old "bosses" of the traditional, old-fashioned, time-tested justice system -- i.e., judges and lawyers.

Re: Dark Web – Justice League

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Post by heavyarms »

There's a good book by Kevin Poulsen called "The Kingpin: How one Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground" that is a bit out of date at this point (2011), but it goes into great length on all of the dynamics of the early forums where all of carding/spam/botnet operators did business.

In a forum/marketplace like this, your reputation is worth a lot of money. And if you scam someone and get banned, sure, you can just join again under a new identity, but building your reputation up again means you will lose out on a lot of potential sales.

Re: Dark Web – Justice League

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Post by lovich »

t0suj4 wrote: post #94
matsemann wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True reason is of course that the arbitration courts side with those paying the bills. Otherwise they would have few repeat customers.

If you can buy a judgement wouldn't people just refuse to be judged by such courts? The arbiter would risk losing all their customers.

When it’s a take it or leave it agreement and every company has added it to their offers, there’s not really a whole lot of choice

Re: Dark Web – Justice League

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Post by cosmodisk »

Not surprising at all. Most criminal organisations, especially larger ones have these mechanisms in place both for internal and external situations. For instance if there are two gangs with overlapping territories,disputes start and can get escalated very quickly into situations where each side is focusing on fighting instead of bringing on money. Sometimes the gang leaders would try to resolve it but often external help is required. Usually it's a well respected person by both sides who is impartial and has the necessary negotiation or political skills to make both sides happy. This is almost universal across the criminal world.

Re: Dark Web – Justice League

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Post by [deleted] »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #40
smokey_circles wrote: post #12

> Over the past few weeks the FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), Interpol, and other international law enforcement agencies have worked together to incarcerate and indict ransomware threat actors. Through this effort, millions of dollars in ransom payments have been recovered. yet still, cryptocurrency gets blamed for all the ransomware. nevermind that clearly the law is able to find some course to take, or the unsolv…

How do I send $1m in cash to Russia to pay the ransom? Or $1000 for that matter?

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Re: Dark Web – Justice League

#109

Post by msikora »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #76
flatiron wrote: post #67

I live in NJ where weed is legal but you can't buy it (legally) so we are sort of in a weird spot. anyway, it makes me really not care about ordering weed on the dark web from CA. if the feds catch it, its an ounce of weed to a residence, they don't care and im not gonna go in front of some federal judge on federal drug crimes. if CA or NJ catch it, its legal there, who cares. but the site I use uses an escrow system…

> I live in NJ where weed is legal but you can't buy it (legally) so we are sort of in a weird spot. Isn't there a service in Maine where you can pay psychics to find your lost weed and bring it back to you? https://www.incredibles.me/your-first-order-what-you-need-to... > If you have LOST your weed, please feel free to reach out to us! Your word is good enough for us. If you say you LOST IT, we will FIND IT, GUARANT…

Wow, this is amazing! Did they get into any legal troubles?

Re: Dark Web – Justice League

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

reggieband wrote: post #103

There is a comic I remember from my childhood, "Tom the Dancing Bug" written by Ruben Bolling. He had a character called "Harvey Richard, Lawyer for Children". I linked a couple of examples [1], [2], [3], [4] but the satire, IMO, is incredible. It lampoons humanities proclivity to layer pseudo-rationality onto the irrational things that we do. It also reminds me of the TV show "The Wire" when Stringer Bell, a senior…

Those comics were genius. Thanks for putting them together for us.
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