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New 'Google' For the Dark Web Makes Buying Dope and Guns Easy

Posted by timothy on from the and-you'd-trust-this-because dept.

First time accepted submitter turkeydance (1266624) writes "The dark web just got a little less dark with the launch of a new search engine that lets you easily find illicit drugs and other contraband online. Grams, which launched last week and is patterned after Google, is accessible only through the Tor anonymizing browser (the address for Grams is: grams7enufi7jmdl.onion) but fills a niche for anyone seeking quick access to sites selling drugs, guns, stolen credit card numbers, counterfeit cash and fake IDs — sites that previously only could be found by users who knew the exact URL for the site."

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  1. Since when is every search engine Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Remember back in the day when we had other search engines? Yeah, most of them were kinda terrible in comparison to Google. Every time I hear someone refer to their search engine as "Google for..." they've also been terrible. Google became king of search because they were so much better than everyone else.

    1. Re:Since when is every search engine Google? by n1ywb · · Score: 4, Informative

      I remember Archie. And Veronica. And I just got the references after all these years.

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      -73, de n1ywb
      www.n1ywb.com
    2. Re:Since when is every search engine Google? by arth1 · · Score: 4, Informative

      zmodem was several generations newer.
      kermit -> xmodem -> ymodem -> zmodem

      I still use uucp, by the way. For communicating with faraway sites where the connection depends on a shaky cell phone connection that may or may not be up, it's a pretty good way of moving e-mail and logs.

  2. NSA, all the way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    If people think the NSA isn't all over the dark web, they be dummies.

  3. I hate to agree with an A/C, but... by mmell · · Score: 5, Informative

    what he said. While countermeasures can mediate the risk, you should assume that anything you send out electronically can be intercepted, decrypted and traced back to you. You can take steps to make this extremely difficult (hopefully more difficult than catching you is worth), you can certainly take steps I personally couldn't overcome without too much effort; but beating the intelligence gathering capabilities of one or more governments is at best an uncertain proposition (IMHO).