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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. Re:If it lets you find guns and drugs easily... by Wrexs0ul · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it'll let the Feds find them just as easily....

    Or does anyone seriously think the NSA can't use this service just as well as Random Internet Idiot?

    Who says the NSA doesn't run the site?

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  2. 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).

  3. Re:Good. by duke_cheetah2003 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real hidden service URL probably just changed.

    The site advert'd in the Slashdot article is probably itself a "Sting" operation to tag members of the public for the purpose
    of building a blacklist for the /real/ search site at some URL we don't know about.

    Yeah, I'm inclined to agree, that 'dark web' URL in slapped in such plain view.. screams honeypot. Pass.

  4. Re:Good. by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The point of darknets is not to hide the URLs of services, it's to hide the location of the server and the clients connecting to it. Otherwise it would be kinda useless, since to use it you would have to have contact with other users which is risky.

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