The "Deep Web"
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Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
I read about it few months back. Apparently it's Lord Red Dragon's ilk's stomping grounds, a pedo haven. If you're in to drugs drugs drugs like krokodil you can pick up just about anything on the "Silk Road." Wonder if you can get OOP Doom in bulk?
THIS IS LONG, BUT WORTH THE READ.
For those who don't know, the deep web represents a gargantuan part of the internet which is not accessible through regular searches via google or other search engines.
Searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean. While a great deal may be caught in the net, there is still a wealth of information that is deep, and therefore, missed. The reason is simple: Most of the Web's information is buried far down on dynamically generated sites, and standard search engines never find it.
Here are some facts on The Deep Web:
· Public information on the deep Web is currently 400 to 550 times larger than the commonly defined World Wide Web.
· The deep Web contains 7,500 terabytes of information compared to 19 terabytes of information in the surface Web.
· The deep Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to the 1 billion of the surface Web.
· More than 200,000 deep Web sites presently exist.
· Sixty of the largest deep-Web sites collectively contain about 750 terabytes of information — sufficient by themselves to exceed the size of the surface Web forty times.
· The deep Web is the largest growing category of new information on the Internet.
· Deep Web sites tend to be narrower, with deeper content, than conventional surface sites.
· Total quality content of the deep Web is 1,000 to 2,000 times greater than that of the surface Web.
· Deep Web content is highly relevant to every information need, market, and domain.
· More than half of the deep Web content resides in topic-specific databases.
· A full ninety-five per cent of the deep Web is publicly accessible information — not subject to fees or subscriptions.
What lies beneath the surface is a who's who of hackers, scientists, drug dealers, astronomers, assassins, physicists, revolutionaries, Government officials, Police, Feds, terrorists, perverts, data miners, kidnappers, sociologists, etc. As you can tell, the party goes across the entire moral spectrum.
I find this subject to be utterly fascinating which needs to be studied further. Whilst there are tons of bad seeds who inhabit this deep web, there's also good seeds who wish to spread their information quickly and most often anonymously, to avoid legal or ethical ramifications.
In order to access the deep web you use the Tor browser in addition to the Tor extension for Firefox. This is a good starting point.
And then access the Hidden Wiki which is a small but useful reference point to start on your journey of the deep web. kpvz7ki2v5agwt35.onion
They got folks who literally can go toe to toe with Anon on there. Dudes who are really dangerous in the sense they are near omnipotent. This is where the serious computer viruses are made and where plots are made. They have security viruses and everything.
SCREENSHOT OF THE HIDDEN WIKI: http://go.cur.lv/hidwiki
The reason the "Deep Web" is the way it is is because only about 10 percent of what's on the internet is generally/commercially interesting. Sure you could dig deep into the annals of the information superhighway but most if it is raw information. It's not packaged and easily digestible like stumbleupon or tumblr. They are websites that purposely don't get pinged to search engines so they are harder to find.
To sum it up, it's basically a private section of server space to share data off record. All that wiki leaks stuffed that leaked a couple months back? That's been on deep web for years. Ever seen a movie and see the bad guy or hacker loggin' into some weird looking private server? that's all real. Generally, terrorist networks, spy agencies, drug dealers, assassins-for-hire, and those looking for child porn lurk around those parts. There's a Hidden Wiki, there, and on the wiki they're categories of links. There are things like blogs, forums (from normal to revolutionary to blatantly illegal), Tor-enabled instant messaging and chat, anonymous file hosting, anonymous financing, anonymous tipping and information exchanges, information on computer security/anonymity, info on warez/cracks/hacking, all the books, music, movies you can possibly imagine, even links to sports betting and trade information, links to international drug markets, prostitution rings, assassin markets, black market products, child pornography, Some of societies most deviant people use this network. Not just those that browse the sites on there but also those who create it and manage them..and it's almost impossible to find either of the offenders.
Even underground fighting tournaments to the death (I'm not joking very real very organized). Very Real trained professional fighters. It may seem surreal but they are guys that train with the best and want no part of UFC or any fight league. Dudes who really enjoy fighting to the death. It's just crazy explaining it it's not some barroom brawl. These things happen and alot of millionaires pay big money to see them. Modern Gladiator battles. I heard there are some with humans vs animals.
However, 0.00000001% of all data on the dark web is stuff normal people will be able to access, understand and use. And even a small fraction of that is illegal stuff.. its not like some hardcore underground network of spies, killers, pedos and criminals. The rest % is used by their respected authorities.
Don't be an idiot and start clicking on links you see on the hiddenwiki, but poke your head in the door you'll see its not modern anarchy in there.
While the information on the deep web is vastly overwhelming, it should not be feared. In most aspects, the information is just there, it's what you choose to do with the information that can lead you to trouble and imprisonment. Producing, storing, exchanging, transferring information.
Before you begin I suggest learning how the deep web works and what you can do to better protect yourself against intruders and anything that can compromise your true anonymity
I'll post how to get on the Hidden Wiki next.
Here is a screenshot of a typical source in the Deep Web: http://i56.tinypic.com/241wnj5.png.
This is like some post apacolyptic world where they only accept the bizarre currency bitcoins and all the websites look like they are from 1990's era geocities.
BTC's are the deep web's form of currency.. bitcoins.
This **** is hilarious, bizarre, and terrifying..
half the time the sites dont work and result in the most cryptic jargon filled errors. the other half, you wait ten minutes for it to load only to see something which shocks you because of how serious it is. this is where the hackers hang out. The can use your own webcam to spy on you. (srs)
I know what you're thinking some of the best hackers around and the server is slow as. The servers are probably used to a pretty small amount of traffic. With the attention deep web has got from niketalk and anon. in the last few days they are probably struggling a bit I reckon. Could be wrong on that but basically patience is a necessity in the deep web.
Now I'm just a cog in the machine. A really big machine. And really just relaying information found on other fora as mentioned already. I'm just trying to find people that are in it already. I want to know what they're saying on current events, Libya, Nasa investigation on that metorite, higher alien life forms, where Adrian Wojnarowski gets his trade information from etc
While the information on the deep web is vastly overwhelming, it should not be feared. In most aspects, the information is just there, it's what you choose to do with the information that can lead you to trouble and imprisonment. Producing, storing, exchanging, transferring information.
Before you begin I suggest learning how the deep web works and what you can do to better protect yourself against intruders and anything that can compromise your true anonymity
Here, you can read up more about the deep web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web
This has information on what the .onion network is and how it works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion
Here is where you can read up on TOR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
GUIDE TO GET ON DEEP WEB
From there, you can get the tor bundle at https://www.torproject.org/download/...d-easy.html.en
Click Start Tor Browser once you have completed the steps.
Firefox will open up with this as the main page
From there, you are now somewhat anonymous and can now access .onion and the hidden web.
Keep in mind that Tor is not 100% anonymous...multiple proxies are needed in addition to tor, of course a firewall and Antivirus as well. I'd disconnect or put tape over my webcam , disable javascript cookies, temp data, use ccleaner...
Hope this helped.
IF YOU NEED ANY HELP GETTING ON THE HIDDEN WEB, POST HERE OR SHOOT ME A PM. I AM HERE TO HELP.
For those who don't know, the deep web represents a gargantuan part of the internet which is not accessible through regular searches via google or other search engines.
Searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean. While a great deal may be caught in the net, there is still a wealth of information that is deep, and therefore, missed. The reason is simple: Most of the Web's information is buried far down on dynamically generated sites, and standard search engines never find it.
Here are some facts on The Deep Web:
· Public information on the deep Web is currently 400 to 550 times larger than the commonly defined World Wide Web.
· The deep Web contains 7,500 terabytes of information compared to 19 terabytes of information in the surface Web.
· The deep Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to the 1 billion of the surface Web.
· More than 200,000 deep Web sites presently exist.
· Sixty of the largest deep-Web sites collectively contain about 750 terabytes of information — sufficient by themselves to exceed the size of the surface Web forty times.
· The deep Web is the largest growing category of new information on the Internet.
· Deep Web sites tend to be narrower, with deeper content, than conventional surface sites.
· Total quality content of the deep Web is 1,000 to 2,000 times greater than that of the surface Web.
· Deep Web content is highly relevant to every information need, market, and domain.
· More than half of the deep Web content resides in topic-specific databases.
· A full ninety-five per cent of the deep Web is publicly accessible information — not subject to fees or subscriptions.
What lies beneath the surface is a who's who of hackers, scientists, drug dealers, astronomers, assassins, physicists, revolutionaries, Government officials, Police, Feds, terrorists, perverts, data miners, kidnappers, sociologists, etc. As you can tell, the party goes across the entire moral spectrum.
I find this subject to be utterly fascinating which needs to be studied further. Whilst there are tons of bad seeds who inhabit this deep web, there's also good seeds who wish to spread their information quickly and most often anonymously, to avoid legal or ethical ramifications.
In order to access the deep web you use the Tor browser in addition to the Tor extension for Firefox. This is a good starting point.
And then access the Hidden Wiki which is a small but useful reference point to start on your journey of the deep web. kpvz7ki2v5agwt35.onion
They got folks who literally can go toe to toe with Anon on there. Dudes who are really dangerous in the sense they are near omnipotent. This is where the serious computer viruses are made and where plots are made. They have security viruses and everything.
SCREENSHOT OF THE HIDDEN WIKI: http://go.cur.lv/hidwiki
The reason the "Deep Web" is the way it is is because only about 10 percent of what's on the internet is generally/commercially interesting. Sure you could dig deep into the annals of the information superhighway but most if it is raw information. It's not packaged and easily digestible like stumbleupon or tumblr. They are websites that purposely don't get pinged to search engines so they are harder to find.
To sum it up, it's basically a private section of server space to share data off record. All that wiki leaks stuffed that leaked a couple months back? That's been on deep web for years. Ever seen a movie and see the bad guy or hacker loggin' into some weird looking private server? that's all real. Generally, terrorist networks, spy agencies, drug dealers, assassins-for-hire, and those looking for child porn lurk around those parts. There's a Hidden Wiki, there, and on the wiki they're categories of links. There are things like blogs, forums (from normal to revolutionary to blatantly illegal), Tor-enabled instant messaging and chat, anonymous file hosting, anonymous financing, anonymous tipping and information exchanges, information on computer security/anonymity, info on warez/cracks/hacking, all the books, music, movies you can possibly imagine, even links to sports betting and trade information, links to international drug markets, prostitution rings, assassin markets, black market products, child pornography, Some of societies most deviant people use this network. Not just those that browse the sites on there but also those who create it and manage them..and it's almost impossible to find either of the offenders.
Even underground fighting tournaments to the death (I'm not joking very real very organized). Very Real trained professional fighters. It may seem surreal but they are guys that train with the best and want no part of UFC or any fight league. Dudes who really enjoy fighting to the death. It's just crazy explaining it it's not some barroom brawl. These things happen and alot of millionaires pay big money to see them. Modern Gladiator battles. I heard there are some with humans vs animals.
However, 0.00000001% of all data on the dark web is stuff normal people will be able to access, understand and use. And even a small fraction of that is illegal stuff.. its not like some hardcore underground network of spies, killers, pedos and criminals. The rest % is used by their respected authorities.
Don't be an idiot and start clicking on links you see on the hiddenwiki, but poke your head in the door you'll see its not modern anarchy in there.
While the information on the deep web is vastly overwhelming, it should not be feared. In most aspects, the information is just there, it's what you choose to do with the information that can lead you to trouble and imprisonment. Producing, storing, exchanging, transferring information.
Before you begin I suggest learning how the deep web works and what you can do to better protect yourself against intruders and anything that can compromise your true anonymity
I'll post how to get on the Hidden Wiki next.
Here is a screenshot of a typical source in the Deep Web: http://i56.tinypic.com/241wnj5.png.
This is like some post apacolyptic world where they only accept the bizarre currency bitcoins and all the websites look like they are from 1990's era geocities.
BTC's are the deep web's form of currency.. bitcoins.
This **** is hilarious, bizarre, and terrifying..
half the time the sites dont work and result in the most cryptic jargon filled errors. the other half, you wait ten minutes for it to load only to see something which shocks you because of how serious it is. this is where the hackers hang out. The can use your own webcam to spy on you. (srs)
I know what you're thinking some of the best hackers around and the server is slow as. The servers are probably used to a pretty small amount of traffic. With the attention deep web has got from niketalk and anon. in the last few days they are probably struggling a bit I reckon. Could be wrong on that but basically patience is a necessity in the deep web.
Now I'm just a cog in the machine. A really big machine. And really just relaying information found on other fora as mentioned already. I'm just trying to find people that are in it already. I want to know what they're saying on current events, Libya, Nasa investigation on that metorite, higher alien life forms, where Adrian Wojnarowski gets his trade information from etc
While the information on the deep web is vastly overwhelming, it should not be feared. In most aspects, the information is just there, it's what you choose to do with the information that can lead you to trouble and imprisonment. Producing, storing, exchanging, transferring information.
Before you begin I suggest learning how the deep web works and what you can do to better protect yourself against intruders and anything that can compromise your true anonymity
Here, you can read up more about the deep web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web
This has information on what the .onion network is and how it works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion
Here is where you can read up on TOR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
GUIDE TO GET ON DEEP WEB
From there, you can get the tor bundle at https://www.torproject.org/download/...d-easy.html.en
Click Start Tor Browser once you have completed the steps.
Firefox will open up with this as the main page
From there, you are now somewhat anonymous and can now access .onion and the hidden web.
Keep in mind that Tor is not 100% anonymous...multiple proxies are needed in addition to tor, of course a firewall and Antivirus as well. I'd disconnect or put tape over my webcam , disable javascript cookies, temp data, use ccleaner...
Hope this helped.
IF YOU NEED ANY HELP GETTING ON THE HIDDEN WEB, POST HERE OR SHOOT ME A PM. I AM HERE TO HELP.
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
I don't see any upside in frequenting these onion sites unless ye were up to something nefarious. Watching some kumite style blood sport would be cool, but not worth the hassle of setting this up. I'm too damn lazy to even download a torrent program from piratebay in order to dled UFC PPVs, let alone TOR. This shit's for people who piss in empty mayo jars. Fascinating as it may be upon initial reading, most of the common man testimonies I've read from those who popped in for a perusing said it's primarily a Michael Jackson wet dream. Ye still have to network and put time on there to gain access to anything truly dirty and intriguing.
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
Silk Road, the anonymous Internet marketplace best known as a destination for buying illegal drugs, has been seized by the FBI.
Ross Ulbricht, 29, has been arrested as the head of the site, which he allegedly operated under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. Ulbricht recently posted a manifesto of sorts on economic reform to his LinkedIn page.
The seizure netted 26,000 Bitcoins, worth some $3.2 million. Bitcoins are an anonymous digital currency, so for the person who buys his drugs online, they're a must. This is the single largest seizure of Bitcoin assets to date.
A close reading reveals that Ulbricht is also accused of hiring a hit man to kill a Silk Road user called "FriendlyChemist" for $150,000. FriendlyChemist began sending threatening messages in March of this year, saying that he'd publish the names and addresses of Silk Road customers unless he received $500,000, according to authorities.
At this point, another member named "redandwhite" was contacted in order to take out a "bounty" on FriendlyChemist's head, the complaint said. They allegedly agreed on a price of 1,670 Bitcoins. Redandwhite then wrote DPR back and said, "I received the payment ... We know where he is. He'll be grabbed tonight. I'll update you."
Prior to today, Silk Road users employed an anonymizing network called Tor to browse the site and make their purchases. Tor distributes your Internet traffic around the world so it can't be traced back to you specifically. Merchants and customers interacted on a bare bones basis to buy and sell their goods using the previously mentioned Bitcoin currency.
Ross Ulbricht, 29, has been arrested as the head of the site, which he allegedly operated under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. Ulbricht recently posted a manifesto of sorts on economic reform to his LinkedIn page.
The seizure netted 26,000 Bitcoins, worth some $3.2 million. Bitcoins are an anonymous digital currency, so for the person who buys his drugs online, they're a must. This is the single largest seizure of Bitcoin assets to date.
A close reading reveals that Ulbricht is also accused of hiring a hit man to kill a Silk Road user called "FriendlyChemist" for $150,000. FriendlyChemist began sending threatening messages in March of this year, saying that he'd publish the names and addresses of Silk Road customers unless he received $500,000, according to authorities.
At this point, another member named "redandwhite" was contacted in order to take out a "bounty" on FriendlyChemist's head, the complaint said. They allegedly agreed on a price of 1,670 Bitcoins. Redandwhite then wrote DPR back and said, "I received the payment ... We know where he is. He'll be grabbed tonight. I'll update you."
Prior to today, Silk Road users employed an anonymizing network called Tor to browse the site and make their purchases. Tor distributes your Internet traffic around the world so it can't be traced back to you specifically. Merchants and customers interacted on a bare bones basis to buy and sell their goods using the previously mentioned Bitcoin currency.
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
For several years now, deep web marketplace the Silk Road has been providing technology journalists with sensational headlines. The site facilitates the anonymous sale and purchase of illicit goods. Sign up, make a purchase, pay in Bitcoin and wait for your ounce of weed to arrive in the post. It was supposed to be the biggest thing to hit drug dealing since crack.
So you can only imagine the excitement generated in the bedroom-offices of these online journalists when they discovered that the Silk Road had set up an Armory that is, an online gun store. Within days, readers of their quality publications were being regaled with tales of guns available for sale online.
But there was one problem: there was no evidence of a gun sale ever being made on The Armory. Ordering a gram of coke is one thing, but shelling out for an overpriced Glock from a seller with no reputation is another. It came as no surprise when the Silk Road decided to shut its Armory down.
Another small issue the tech hacks failed to mention was the reality of using the Silk Road website: its terrible. The site is slow, often unusable and suffers from frequent downtime. On one occasion Silk Road users couldnt access their accounts (and thus the millions of dollars in Bitcoin stored in them) for over two weeks.
The market was right for someone to challenge Silk Roads monopoly, and thats exactly what happened. Two rivals sprang up: Atlantis and Black Market Reloaded. Both sites were vastly more responsive and gained a reputation for reliability. Most interesting was the Firearms section of Black Market Reloaded, which became active.
Guns werent just being offered for sale, they were actually being sold. How could we tell? Because sellers would post multiple pictures of the gun for sale next to a handwritten note of their name and the sales were authenticated by the site, which meant money was being paid into escrow and being released to the sellers by customers who would then leave feedback.
Importantly, many of the buyers had extensive purchase history with the site and were frequent contributors Black Market Reloadeds forum. Sometime, purchasers, who often bought from overseas, even posted pictures of their goods with dated newspapers from their own countries. It was enough to convince many that the sellers were legitimate and Black Market Reloaded became the first marketplace on the web where guns could be purchased easily.
The more time I spent tracking the firearm sales on BMR, the more I became convinced of two things: one, the sales were real and two, something was going to go seriously wrong before very long. The sellers had become brazen, shipping across borders to countries with strict customs procedures.
It didnt matter how well they claimed to have concealed their orders; somebody was going to get caught. I couldnt buy a gun to prove that weapons were being sold, so I had to sit back and wait for a customs x-ray machine to do its job.
I didnt have to wait long. Two weeks ago, Adam Bunger, a 33-year-old technology entrepreneur from Kentucky, was arrested for selling firearms on BMR.
If the police are right and Mr Bunger was selling guns on BMR, which one of the handful of sellers was he? When the details behind his arrest came out, it soon became clear. Mr Bungers gun dealing was first rumbled in July when a Modelo Super 9mm pistol he shipped to Australia was discovered at customs hidden inside a broken Xbox.
The customer to whom it was addressed squealed to the police that theyd bought it off BMR and set off a chain of inquiry. The package was traced back to Bowling Green, a credit card was linked to the parcel, and Mr Bunger was identified by mail clerks.
Two other packages were then intercepted: an Uzi-style pistol, discovered in an Xbox bound for the UK, and assault rifle parts, found in a package sent to Australia. Mr Burger was then fingered by a mail clerk as he attempted to send a .22 caliber Taurus pistol to Sweden, hidden inside a computer power supply box.
For those familiar with the BMR firearms market it became instantly obvious which seller had been caught, one of the sites most trusted dealers: Grass4Cash. Grass4Cash had sold a Modelo Super 9mm and a Mac-10 (an Uzi-type gun in a time frame that lines up with the Police seizures).
Additionally, both his Grass4Cash account and an account called demonfifa, which had sold over 1,000 stolen credit cards, stolen identities, fake IDs and shipments of marijuana, and which many users of BMR suspected was run by him as well, went quiet following Burgers arrest.
The Adam Burger who was caught with his pants down, using the same post office, using his credit card to send guns and going by the inventive name John Smith, couldnt be anyone but Grass4Cash, who swaggered around BMR as one of the first, most prolific and most trusted gun dealers on the internet.
Grass4Cash began selling in September 2012. In May this year, he claimed to be receiving over hundred enquiries a day about his services. He constantly updated his arsenal with a wide variety of of weapons and boasted of his untouchability. His profile read, Best stealth packaging: Gets into Australia/UK or anywhere else easy Current success rate: 100%
The hundreds of customers who bought from him inundated his profile with positive feedback. S1nrgy who bought a Ruger LCP .380 from him had this to say:
I cant recommend G4C enough! Fantastic communication and very fast delivery. Need a gun? THIS is the guy to go to.
At the beginning of July, just days after Australian customs had discovered the smuggled pistol, Grass4Cash was still brazenly advertising his wares. He was offering a .25 pocket pistol for $1,000.
This is a great conceal weapon, and a great piece to have your back. The firearm comes with 1 7 round magazine For just $1060 including express shipping (Yes, you to Australians), this is a steal.)
As well as the pistol, Grass4Cash was offering an American Gangster favourite: a brand new Mac-10, a steal for $3,500. It could well be this very weapon that police intercepted on its way to the UK.
The users of the Black Market Reloaded forums, who once sang Grass4Cashs praises, are in shock. The ease with with an icon of their lawless and borderless trade dream was taken down has led to much panicked speculation about the future of BMR.
For years now, users of the more nefarious corners of the deep web have been living under the illusion that theyre untouchable. But only one of the original ring of reputable gun dealers is still advertising on the site and like the Armory before it, the firearms section of BMR is filling up with scammers.
The arrest of Grass4Cash is just the latest in a string of events that have shattered the stability of this dark illegal market. In July, the FBI took out Freedom Hosting, which was alleged to have been hosting the majority of child pornography on the web. There are persistent rumours that the online black market sites are under heavy surveillance though it was an old fashioned parcel intercept that compromised Grass4Cash.
All of which suggests that, together with other illegal online activities that participants were arrogant enough to imagine law enforcement could never see happening, the online gun trade may be petering out before it even really got started.
So you can only imagine the excitement generated in the bedroom-offices of these online journalists when they discovered that the Silk Road had set up an Armory that is, an online gun store. Within days, readers of their quality publications were being regaled with tales of guns available for sale online.
But there was one problem: there was no evidence of a gun sale ever being made on The Armory. Ordering a gram of coke is one thing, but shelling out for an overpriced Glock from a seller with no reputation is another. It came as no surprise when the Silk Road decided to shut its Armory down.
Another small issue the tech hacks failed to mention was the reality of using the Silk Road website: its terrible. The site is slow, often unusable and suffers from frequent downtime. On one occasion Silk Road users couldnt access their accounts (and thus the millions of dollars in Bitcoin stored in them) for over two weeks.
The market was right for someone to challenge Silk Roads monopoly, and thats exactly what happened. Two rivals sprang up: Atlantis and Black Market Reloaded. Both sites were vastly more responsive and gained a reputation for reliability. Most interesting was the Firearms section of Black Market Reloaded, which became active.
Guns werent just being offered for sale, they were actually being sold. How could we tell? Because sellers would post multiple pictures of the gun for sale next to a handwritten note of their name and the sales were authenticated by the site, which meant money was being paid into escrow and being released to the sellers by customers who would then leave feedback.
Importantly, many of the buyers had extensive purchase history with the site and were frequent contributors Black Market Reloadeds forum. Sometime, purchasers, who often bought from overseas, even posted pictures of their goods with dated newspapers from their own countries. It was enough to convince many that the sellers were legitimate and Black Market Reloaded became the first marketplace on the web where guns could be purchased easily.
The more time I spent tracking the firearm sales on BMR, the more I became convinced of two things: one, the sales were real and two, something was going to go seriously wrong before very long. The sellers had become brazen, shipping across borders to countries with strict customs procedures.
It didnt matter how well they claimed to have concealed their orders; somebody was going to get caught. I couldnt buy a gun to prove that weapons were being sold, so I had to sit back and wait for a customs x-ray machine to do its job.
I didnt have to wait long. Two weeks ago, Adam Bunger, a 33-year-old technology entrepreneur from Kentucky, was arrested for selling firearms on BMR.
If the police are right and Mr Bunger was selling guns on BMR, which one of the handful of sellers was he? When the details behind his arrest came out, it soon became clear. Mr Bungers gun dealing was first rumbled in July when a Modelo Super 9mm pistol he shipped to Australia was discovered at customs hidden inside a broken Xbox.
The customer to whom it was addressed squealed to the police that theyd bought it off BMR and set off a chain of inquiry. The package was traced back to Bowling Green, a credit card was linked to the parcel, and Mr Bunger was identified by mail clerks.
Two other packages were then intercepted: an Uzi-style pistol, discovered in an Xbox bound for the UK, and assault rifle parts, found in a package sent to Australia. Mr Burger was then fingered by a mail clerk as he attempted to send a .22 caliber Taurus pistol to Sweden, hidden inside a computer power supply box.
For those familiar with the BMR firearms market it became instantly obvious which seller had been caught, one of the sites most trusted dealers: Grass4Cash. Grass4Cash had sold a Modelo Super 9mm and a Mac-10 (an Uzi-type gun in a time frame that lines up with the Police seizures).
Additionally, both his Grass4Cash account and an account called demonfifa, which had sold over 1,000 stolen credit cards, stolen identities, fake IDs and shipments of marijuana, and which many users of BMR suspected was run by him as well, went quiet following Burgers arrest.
The Adam Burger who was caught with his pants down, using the same post office, using his credit card to send guns and going by the inventive name John Smith, couldnt be anyone but Grass4Cash, who swaggered around BMR as one of the first, most prolific and most trusted gun dealers on the internet.
Grass4Cash began selling in September 2012. In May this year, he claimed to be receiving over hundred enquiries a day about his services. He constantly updated his arsenal with a wide variety of of weapons and boasted of his untouchability. His profile read, Best stealth packaging: Gets into Australia/UK or anywhere else easy Current success rate: 100%
The hundreds of customers who bought from him inundated his profile with positive feedback. S1nrgy who bought a Ruger LCP .380 from him had this to say:
I cant recommend G4C enough! Fantastic communication and very fast delivery. Need a gun? THIS is the guy to go to.
At the beginning of July, just days after Australian customs had discovered the smuggled pistol, Grass4Cash was still brazenly advertising his wares. He was offering a .25 pocket pistol for $1,000.
This is a great conceal weapon, and a great piece to have your back. The firearm comes with 1 7 round magazine For just $1060 including express shipping (Yes, you to Australians), this is a steal.)
As well as the pistol, Grass4Cash was offering an American Gangster favourite: a brand new Mac-10, a steal for $3,500. It could well be this very weapon that police intercepted on its way to the UK.
The users of the Black Market Reloaded forums, who once sang Grass4Cashs praises, are in shock. The ease with with an icon of their lawless and borderless trade dream was taken down has led to much panicked speculation about the future of BMR.
For years now, users of the more nefarious corners of the deep web have been living under the illusion that theyre untouchable. But only one of the original ring of reputable gun dealers is still advertising on the site and like the Armory before it, the firearms section of BMR is filling up with scammers.
The arrest of Grass4Cash is just the latest in a string of events that have shattered the stability of this dark illegal market. In July, the FBI took out Freedom Hosting, which was alleged to have been hosting the majority of child pornography on the web. There are persistent rumours that the online black market sites are under heavy surveillance though it was an old fashioned parcel intercept that compromised Grass4Cash.
All of which suggests that, together with other illegal online activities that participants were arrogant enough to imagine law enforcement could never see happening, the online gun trade may be petering out before it even really got started.
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What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
So this is like BBS in the '80s or what? That stuff was wild, I didn't have my own 'puter back then, but a friend did, and man-o-man, some of that shit was absolutely nuts.
Vaguely related: http://hell.com/ is gone. I'm getting old.
Less/more so: I was watching Max Headroom a few weeks ago. Fuckin' awesome.
EDIT: If this is anything like the "Deep South" from Little Nicky, count me in.
Vaguely related: http://hell.com/ is gone. I'm getting old.
Less/more so: I was watching Max Headroom a few weeks ago. Fuckin' awesome.
EDIT: If this is anything like the "Deep South" from Little Nicky, count me in.
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What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
You could find all kinds of crap on those things. Most of it (that I saw) was typically harmless and nerd-like, but some was... yeah.
You could find all kinds of crap on those things. Most of it (that I saw) was typically harmless and nerd-like, but some was... yeah.
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What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
Porn back then was hilarious. Download three images based on their description, finally look at them the next day.
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