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reached the milestone after scoring and barcelona's to all draw against valencia messi made his debut for the club in 2004 paley reached the same number of goals in 19 seasons for the brazilian side santos. you're watching t.v. news live from berlin on the spicer thanks for watching. the story of produce and propaganda. they were called the rhineland bastards born after the 1st world war. their mothers were germans living in the occupied drying land their fathers were soldiers from the french colonies the fees for german children had a hard time because they were a reminder of german defeat. exclusion and contempt culminating in forced
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sterilization under the nazis. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence. the children change. storage january 11th on d. w. . fake passports trucks and weapons in the dark with illegal activity it's just a click away why is it so hard to crack down on criminal activity there and can be used for good the dark weapon our topic today on shift. the dark what is an alternative to the regular internet it's a version that anonymous and encrypt it this makes it the perfect face to illegal goods like weapons a recent study found that most users engaged in illegal. to videos on the dark web
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live in democratic societies the most common illegal transactions are drax experts estimate that tracks make up 2 thirds of transactions on the dark web so i tried it out how easy is it to buy tracks on the dark web. at 1st glance it looks just like a regular online shop with product images and customer reviews but the products are illegal heroin and all kinds of weapons. high as shulman is head of the cyber security analytics and defense department at the pollen over institute in darmstadt she shows us where drugs are sold on the dark web looking is legal only buying is a crime in germany the u r l's of these websites can be found on the regular internet or clear web it's better organized than many of legal marketplaces there is much more information the buyers are much more reliable the feedback is much better financial money is
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involved and also much more is at stake if you make a mistake you go to jail so you have to make sure that it's. secure with just a few clicks customers can buy cannabis one of the most popular drugs on the dark web it would be sent to the provided address but that means trusting the vendor to delete it once the product has been delivered payment is done in the cryptocurrency bitcoin so the customer remains anonymous but how likely is it for the product to actually arrive in the end every vendor here has sort of customers and if he doesn't deliver the goods. or protection will be damaged no one will buy from him so the whole system and dark know it is based on reputation that's why typically the service is called in if you order something it will arrive the customer is on the dark web and not 100 percent anonymous so they're not completely protected from prosecution because the location and ip addresses are encrypted so it makes criminal prosecution much harder. another challenge in. the lack of national
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borders on the dock witnesses me charity but. we never really know what country the service are actually located and it's not just a technological challenge but a judicial challenge to. so we need to permanently cooperate with other law enforcement agencies and work across various fields and speciality is really a big challenge on the. phone as it is a. 2019 they were finally successful working with international investigators the federal criminal police and respawn was able to prosecute one of the world's largest drug binges on the dog way of wall street market the services were eventually discovered in this former german military bunker located in the small town in the west of germany. now that's surprising you'd never expect to find the servers in a place like that we spoke to somebody who buys trucks on the dark web he told us that he feels much safer buying drugs on the dark wet than on the street we also asked him whether he's scared of being caught by the police more on that soon on
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our you tube channel on the dark where pews are is our anonymous when we surf the internet we've traced us behind everywhere even when we use browsers and incognito mode like firefox we're not really surfing anonymously originally the dark web was created by the u.s. military to help intelligence agencies communicate anonymously today anyone can access it and then many makes the dark web useful for illegal transactions but it also allows political activists to move about freely online all they need is a certain software here's how it works. the best known way of accessing the dark web is by using the tour project a worldwide network of servers. the real project is to defend yourself against trucking and surveillance and circumvent censorship wherever you are in the internet you wrote tracked and somebody spies on you and tor tries to. tries to
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prevent. tor employs a technique called onion routing which uses multiple layers of encryption like an onion this ensures the users in an. all search queries run through an extensive network of servers called tor nodes this way the user's ip address a unique identifier is only shared with the 1st node from then on it's the nodes ip address that's used the more notes the query runs through the harder it becomes to trace back its origins which protects the user's identity more than 2000000 people use tor browser every single day activists like you. are on a mission to ensure that the technology behind tor is standard in every browser so that means anyone could surf the web and honestly that actually sounds pretty good to me this is already standard on the dark web however anonymity can also protect people engaging in illegal activities like pedophiles in recent years the german police have to cover at several different forums for this one example was the
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lithium which was one of the world's largest platforms for images and videos showing sexual abuse of children the farm was shut down and 2017 elysium is a good example of the challenges the dark web poses for investigators with 111000 accounts and online forums in 6 different languages elisia was a space where pedophiles from around the world to meet in 2017. they would chat and share exploitative images of children and even babies being sexually abused the police used undercover investigators to track down these dark websites. really a lot of work like finding all the pieces of a puzzle just imagine trying to infiltrate one of these platforms you have to pretend that you're interested in paedophilic material start contacting a few people and talk to them it's not just one or 2 conversations it can take you weeks or months to get useful information. investigators also need to analyze the exploitative images and videos depicting sexual violence against children it's hard
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to watch but every detail is important. and you have to closely watch the material and you're constantly looking for leads was this crime committed in germany perhaps there's a product that's only sold in germany to be found somewhere in the background. in the case of an error in the online forum helped the investigators the ip address of one of the servers was revealed which led the police to one of the perpetrators on the dark web authorities frequently depend on coincidences and errors like the. helps us when there are individual cases of humans making errors or this system not being 100 percent reliable usually once a platform is hosted on the dark web you can't access any real existing ip addresses anymore even if the dark web isn't exactly the root of all evil investigators like you are convinced that the distribution of exploitative images and videos of children would be much less widespread without it. probably wouldn't
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see it happen on the same scale that we do today simply because people would run a much higher risk of running into somebody that might actually report them to the police can all with us and i think this anonymous online exchange helps people encourage each other positive. another problem for investigators is that in order to access these platforms new users often need to submit new material that means the police would have to share images of children being sexually abused but just for been in many countries of course from 2020 onward however the german police are allowed to use computer generated images of children that aren't real when a dark web forum is shut down many years are simply move on to the next one that's why it is especially important to prosecutor you have to investigate a lot. it may be if we keep breaking up more of these structures then we might be able to have a large impact by unsettling the users some might even say it's a bit risky maybe i shouldn't do this anymore i think this would give us the upper
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hand by creating this type of uncertainty and insecurity that might force people to think twice at the dark web is also important for the people protesting for freedom tor browser is the software helping political activists around the world to surf the internet anonymously tor it withstands for the onion router is a multi-layered encryption system just like an onion web sites that can be accessed on tort can be recognized by their u.r.l. extension dot onion. facebook has it passed to the new york times and torture problem on your website that can be accessed hundreds or browser which is especially useful in countries where these websites are used to blocked by china or iran. it's with reporters without borders this makes the dark well a tool for more freedom of speech. but dark not or more precisely usually we talk about the toll brothers that enable people to anonymously race on the internet are
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those web pages that might be censored in certain countries or to share information or share documents or video material with international news media without giving away their identity and that's quite a critical tool then especially in less free countries. who have it's also a space that has been used to leak highly classified information whistleblowers chelsea manning and help with snowden he chooses for their leaks. and during the arab spring people use the dark web to plant hoffa protests against the government without fear of prosecution. this is also being used to organize other protests offering protection from surveillance by intelligence a. it seems. we've definitely seen both the use of like b.p. and technology and the darkness playing a critical role also in recent protests and russia obviously both states
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have a sense of the use of social media and they take away our credit tensions of journalists and so communicating through alternative means and circumventing the state censorship talks has become really critical. i take freedom of speech seriously journalists rely on the dark with to work and to be protected from state control for this reason he said it from reporters without borders sasse that we shouldn't simply think of the dark web as being just the dark side of the internet and the document definitely has an image problem. the term brains the aspect of a sudden technology in a way to say this is about illegal activity online and it's not just stopped fundamentally it's an anonymous nation tool that enables both legal activity and illegal activity but it's really critical to journalists it was the laws around the world for we need to talk about the positive aspects much more prominently as well
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i think the term dark with is misleading the word dark suggests illegal activity that it's actually just a network that offers more user anonymity what do you think does the dark work just have a bad reputation could it be the internet of the future or it should be closely monitored for illegal activity let us know what you think on you tube or facebook by and see you soon.
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