German cops arrest student suspected of running infamous dark-web souk A 22-year-old student German federal police believe to be the administrator of one of the largest German-speaking, dark-web forums has been arrested. The man, whose identity has not been released, has been charged with operating a criminal trading platform and faces up to a decade behind bars if convicted. He was collared in …
How did you expect it to work? Somehow, you have to identify yourself to the site so that you can post adverts for illegal stuff and people can send money to you to receive them. A site could be set up where people contact you directly, but that wouldn't make the admins any money so they are unlikely to do it and just because you're selling drugs doesn't mean you know how to correctly organize your own anonymous communication and payment systems.
It doesn't mean they gave the site a lot of useful information, but they would have had to set up an account of some kind to sell things.
>> What rocket surgeons would register on a dark web sales site?
The same people that registered with their company email at Ashley Madison.
Working at a global pharmaceutical company and grep'ing through the A-M dump, people with MSc and Doctoral degrees found in there. Not too far from rocket surgeons or brain scientists some of them!
Tor websites and servers can be uncloaked by LEA. Tor users visiting those websites, however, cannot.
So running an illegal marketplace on the Deep Web is very risky, unless you're managing it from a remote location via...Tor. The physical location of such the Tor website can be discovered so Tor admins need to cover their tracks more thoroughly by physically seperating themselves from the machines.
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