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Darkleaks: an Online Black Market For Selling Secrets 44

Posted by timothy 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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  • built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward

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

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      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

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        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).

        OK. So how do I get the money out anonymously, and into a form I can use to pay my mortgage?

        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.

        Oh, I see. I can't get the money out anonymously, but I can use it to commit multiple federal crimes that I have no interest in? Yeah, I'll pass.

  • Really, it is amply clear that Bitcoin is not anonymous in any strong sense.

  • How do you sort the fake info from the real??

    • I would think people in the trade would have their ways of verifying information. One way would be to say, send over bulk documents from a company, that are private, but not dealing with the information you really want to sell. Or send over documents but with the important parts blocked out. You get the idea. You could verify the information in a series of exchanges. Now maybe a company would have the resources to create fake documents to screw with whoever. I imagine the buyers take that into account thoug

  • The first rule of Fight Club is ... (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    I remember hearing a geek I know brag about how cool Silk Road was,
    and how it was going to be the end of being hassled by "The Man" when all you wanted
    was to get some drugs.

    We know how THAT worked out.

    This will be no different. The government is simply not going to allow
    such things to happen without taking countermeasures. I hate to
    burst your bubble, but that's the truth.

    • 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.

      • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

        by NotDrWho ( 3543773 )

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

        • Nice classic FUD, but you know very well that your speculation simply is not supported by any reasonable facts, and in fact quite the opposite.

          Assenge did some amazing things, but is also a seriously flawed man with a long history of both mysogony and God-complex.

          • Assange? I was talking about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF chief who made the foolish mistake questioning [guardian.co.uk] the primacy of the U.S. dollar. He was publicly arrested for rape shortly thereafter in what the prosecutor called at "rock solid" case. Then three days after his successor at the IMF took office, all charges were dropped.

            Don't fuck with the CIA.

      • To decrypt things it would appear that bincoins would need to be transferred. So maybe this would be a good way to get paid by Uncle Sam.

        Come up with detailed document names about attacks in places like Afghanistan (places we currently have troops in active theaters), and then have the document be an obviously fictional short story (have aliens attack, or maybe sand creatures depending on the locale).

        Of course if they crack it, then they don't need to pay.

        And even if you get identified by the Feds, it's no

  • Honey Pot (Score:5, Informative)

    by theArtificial ( 613980 ) on Thursday February 19, 2015 @03:35PM (#49090469)
    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.

    • 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?

      More likely it's just another a Dread Pirate Roberts --- not far distant from a real-life caricature of Boris Grishenko and with just enough money to finance his start-up. Yes! I am invincible! [youtube.com]

  • Whistleblowers and those individuals

    Criminals and disgruntled employees...

    Fixed that for you.

    Whistleblowers [wikipedia.org] disclose wrong-doing / misconduct, not profit them (a la blackmail or extortion).

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      • whistleblowers aren't criminals, deviants, seditionists, terrorists, or perverted sex fiends.

        Correct. You just described the people who will be using Darkleaks.

    • Whistleblowers [wikipedia.org] disclose wrong-doing / misconduct, not profit them (a la blackmail or extortion).

      Exactly. If you're selling stolen information you're not a hero, you're not a freedom-fighter and you're not a cool folk hero. You are a scumbag.

      • Whistleblowers [wikipedia.org] disclose wrong-doing / misconduct, not profit them (a la blackmail or extortion).

        Exactly. If you're selling stolen information you're not a hero, you're not a freedom-fighter and you're not a cool folk hero. You are a scumbag.

        But I think it needs to be reiterated that you are not a thief, since you are only copying information, etc.

        This seems to matter to a lot of people here.

  • Useless (Score:4, Informative)

    by Frosty Piss ( 770223 ) * on Thursday February 19, 2015 @04:02PM (#49090725)

    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.

    • The fact is, sites like this and Wikileaks are no longer useful for this sort of thing.

      When every major news organization has its own secure drop box, there's less of a need. But there is still a need for an anonymous place for whistleblowers to share leaks with the world. Fortunately, there will be lots of those.

      • When every major news organization has its own secure drop box...

        With the knowledge we now have about the level and expertise of the NSA / CIA et al to access most so-called "secure drop boxes", why would any sane person use such a "drop box"?

        • With the knowledge we now have about the level and expertise of the NSA / CIA et al to access most so-called "secure drop boxes", why would any sane person use such a "drop box"?

          Unless you believe the ongoing Snowden revelations are part of an elaborate false flag operation, there are still precautions that can be taken to get the information out.

          The question is, does selling secrets via bitcoin make us more secure or less secure, as opposed to giving those secrets away, especially through a selected group

  • Hm, is anyone interested in the colour of the panties of my GF?

    Or mine, for that matter?

    • Hm, is anyone interested in the colour of the panties of my GF?

      Or mine, for that matter?

      That depends? Is your GF a person of note who is known to the general public and people would have an interest in see this? (like Taylor swift and Jennifer lawrence) Then yes. If not then no. Alot of people were interested in the fappening, not so much the snappening.

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