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Darkleaks: an Online Black Market For Selling Secrets

Posted by timothy on from the hey-bub-psssst dept.

An anonymous reader writes Whistleblowers and those individuals that are simply out to make a buck out of any confidential and valuable information, can now offer it for sale on Darkleaks, a decentralized, anonymous black market on the Internet. The Darkleaks project is built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, and can be used by downloading this software package (source code is open).

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  1. built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    hasn't anyone learned anything from recent events? bitcoin is not anonymous. buyer (and seller) beware.

    1. Re: built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      hasn't anyone learned anything from recent events? bitcoin is not anonymous. buyer (and seller) beware.

      If you sell some secrets and put the money in a previously unused wallet, you haven't lost anonymity (unless someone physically finds you with the wallet). If you spend the coins on some meth from Silk Road 2, and it gets delivered to a random bus station locker and retrieved when noone is around, you haven't lost anonymity. When you smoke the meth, overdose, and end up in the hospital, your medical records will probably get stolen. And then you won't be anonymous any more. So you are right, bitcoin is not anonymous.

  2. Honey Pot by theArtificial · · Score: 4, Informative

    As we've all learned, everything on the internet is safe in 2015. I wonder who comes up with the idea and subsequently sponsors these projects? Some Agent Smith, some execufuck, someone with good intentions and a subtly flawed technical execution? Seems a good idea on the surface (for capturing squealers), just let the operation go for a year or two and then zing. Governments are good at those kinds of projects.

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  3. Re:The first rule of Fight Club is ... by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 2

    This will be no different. The government is simply not going to allow such things to happen without taking countermeasures.

    This could be quite different. This will make law enforcement's interest in The Silk Road look like they were supporting it. The last time I checked, there was no death penalty for buying/selling drugs. Treason can still be tried as a capital crime. There will be more three letter agencies watching this than I can probably name.

  4. Useless by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 3, Informative

    Honeypot or not, the FBI will be all over this. The fact is, sites like this and Wikileaks are no longer useful for this sort of thing. Snowden took it to the next level.

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  5. Re: Backdoor? by walkerp1 · · Score: 2

    Backdoor? What for? They got you at the front door here.

  6. Re:The first rule of Fight Club is ... by NotDrWho · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's also pretty unlikely that the CIA is going to trump up fake rape charges on you for buying heroin.

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  7. Re:Wouldn't this be a magnet for FAKE information? by mjm1231 · · Score: 2

    If the information can be compared to information somewhere else, then it wasn't a secret to begin with.

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  8. Re:So this is a "please assassinate me" honeypot by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is still better than going through official channels. Most whistleblowers who try to go through official channels, get thrown to the wolves.
    How the US govt destroys the lives of whistleblowers. ... and things are getting worse: Obama has persecuted whistleblowers more than any other president.