so much difference leaving the operational area. so the only difference is that a lot even off the job might go, i still keeps busy using his nose. you're watching the w news. why from berlin up next we take a look at the negative and positive side of the dark web on shift living in the digital legs. a, michael oak, who there's more news at the top of the out on the green. do you feel worried about the planet? i'm the host of the on the green fence. it's clear we need to change. join me for the size of the green transformations for me to use for the class.

and then how many portion of loans occur now in the world climate conference stores? this is my planning, went from just one week. how much less can really get, but we still have time to and i'm doing all this. what's the me with fake passports, trucks and weapons on the dark web. illegal activity is just a click away. why is it so hard to crack down on criminal activity there and can be used for good. the dark whip our topic today and shift the the dark web isn't alternative to the regular internet. it's

a version that's anonymous and encrypted. this makes the perfect space to sell illegal goods like weapons. a recent study found that most users engaged in illegal activities on the dark whip those in the craddick societies. the most common illegal transactions are drugs. experts estimate that drugs make up 2 thirds of transactions on the dark web. so i tried it out. how easy is it to buy tracts on the dark web? at 1st glance, it looks just like a regular online shop was product images and customer reviews. but the products are illegal. heroin, and all kinds of weapons. ah, hi is schuman is head of the cybersecurity analytics and defense department at the fallen over institute in dom stat. shows us where drugs are sold on the dock when 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 the legal marketplaces.

there is much more information, the buyers are much more reliable, the feedback is much better, much more money is 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 that it's super secure. with just a few clicks, customers can buy candidates, one of the most popular drugs on the doc when 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 crypto currency bitcoin, so the customer remains anonymous. but how likely is it for the product to actually arrive in the end? every vendor here has a set of customers and if he doesn't deliver the goods, his reputation will be damage. no one will buy from him for the whole system and darknet is based on reputation. that's why typically the service is good. if you order something, it will arrive, but customers on the dock with are not 100 percent anonymous. so they completely

protected from prosecution because the location and the ip addresses are encrypted, it makes criminal prosecution much harder. another challenge is the lack of national board is on the dock where it says michelle isn't done, we never really know what country the service or actually located. and it's not just a technological challenge, but judicial challenge to the home. and so we need to personally cooperate with other law enforcement agencies and work across various deals and specialities. but it's really a challenge him under the arm and he doesn't want to visit us on in 2019. there was finally successful working with international investigators with federal criminal police, and the spot was able to prosecute one of the world's largest drug vendors on the dark wave wolf street market. the service were eventually discovered in this form, a german military banker, located in a small town in the west of germany. now that's surprising, you never expect to find the servers in a place like that. we spoke to somebody who buys tracks on the dark web. he told us

that he feels much safer buying drafts on the dark web than on the street. we also asked him whether he's scared of being caught by the police. more on that soon on our youtube channel. on the dark, where users are anonymous. when we surf the internet, we'll leave traces behind everywhere. even when we use browsers, an incognito mode like firefox, we're not really surfing anonymously. originally, the dark web was created by the us military to help intelligence agencies communicate anonymously. today, anyone can access it. and in the middle makes the dark web useful for illegal transactions. and 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 tor project, a worldwide network of servers. the visual project is to defend yourself against tracking and surveying and circumvent censorship wherever you are in the normal

internet europe. tract and somebody spies on you. and talk tries to try to prevent that to our employees, a technique called onion routing, which uses multiple layers of encryption like an onion. this ensures the users in an entity, all search queries run through an extensive network of servers called toward nodes . this way, the users ip address, a unique identifier is only shared with the 1st note from them on. it's the note ip address that's use. the more notes the query runs through, the harder it becomes to trace back its origins, which protects the users identity. more than 2000000 people use tore browser every single day, activists like julius mitten fi or on a mission to ensure that the technology behind tour is standard in every browser. so that means anyone could surf the web anonymously. 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 pedophile. in recent years, the german police have discovered several different forums for this. one example was elysium, which was one of the world's largest platforms for images and videos, showing sexual abuse of children. the form we have down in 2017 elysium is a good example of the challenges the dark web poses for investigators. with 111000 accounts and online forms in 6 different languages. alisium what a space for pedophile from around the world to meet in 2017 david chat and share exploitative images of children. and even babies being sexually abused. the police use 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'd have to pretend that you're interested in plato. feel like material. start contacting a few people and talk to them. it's not just one or 2 conversations that could take

you weeks or months to get useful information. investigators also need to analyze the exploit 2 images and videos depicting sexual violence against children. it's hard to watch, but every detail is important. and could you ask closely, watch the material and you're constantly looking for lead. with this crime committed in germany. perhaps there's a product that's only sold in germany to be found somewhere in the background from the water. in the case of alisium, an error in the online forum helps 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 authority frequently depend on coincidences and errors like these. but maybe that helps us when there are individual cases of humans making errors or the system not being 100 percent reliable. usually once a platform, it's hosted on the dark web. you can't access any real existing ip addresses anymore. but even if the dark web isn't exactly the root of all evil, investigators like usually

a boost filer are convinced that the distribution of exploited images and videos of children would be much less widespread without it. the villa we probably wouldn't 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 club. and i think this anonymous online exchange helps people encourage each other. yeah, pull the tea for staffing. another problem for investigators is that in order to access these platforms, you users often need to submit new material. that means the police would have to assure images of children being sexually abused, which is forbidden 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 form is shut down, many users simply move on to the next one. that's why it is especially important to prosecutor. you will have both fella to investigate a lot. you may have,

if we keep breaking up more of these structures, then we might be able to have a large impact by unsettling the users. so some might even say it's a bit risky. maybe i shouldn't do this anymore. that i think this would give us the upper hand to hide by creating this type of uncertainty and curity that might force people to think twice. but the dark whip is also important for this. people protesting for freedom tor browser as a software helping political activists around the world to surf, the internet anonymously, toward which stands for the onion router is a multi layered encryption system. just like an onion. websites that can be accessed on tore. it can be recognized by their u. r. l extension dot onion. facebook has it as do the new york times, and deutsch avella in on your website that can be access onto a browser, which is especially useful in countries where these websites are usually blogs like china or iran working in geo reporters without borders. this makes the dark web

a to a for more freedom of speech. but doc net all more precisely. usually we talk about the tool browse that enables people to anonymously research on the internet to access what pages that might be censored in certain countries, or to share national share documents or video material with international news media without giving away that identity. and that's quite a critical tool then, especially in less 3 countries. the dark web is also a space that has been used to leak highly classified information list of lowest chelsea many and it was snowed in teach use these are for their leaks. and during the error screen, people use the dark well to plan, awfully, protest against the government without fear of prosecution. this has also been used to organize other protest offering protection from surveys by intelligence. the we definitely as the both the use of like vpn technology

and the doc not playing a critical role. also, reason protests in russia. obviously both states heavily sense of the use of social media and they take away accreditation of journalists and so communicating through alternative means and circumventing these things. censorship tools has become really critical. i take freedom of speech seriously. journalists rely on the dark web to work and to be protected from state control. for this reason, lisa bit my from reporters without border assess that we shouldn't simply think of the dark rip as being just the dark side of the internet. the darkness definitely hasn't missed problem the term brain. but the aspect of a sudden technology in a way to say this is about illegal activity online. and it's not just that funded mentally. it's an anonymous ation tool. and that enables both legal activity and

illegal activity. but it's really critical to general with the flow as around the world, and therefore we need to talk about the positive aspects much more prominently as well. i think the term dark whip is misleading. there were dark, suggest illegal activity that it's actually just a network that offers more user anonymity. what do you think? does the dark rep just have a bad reputation? could it be the internet of the future? or should it be closely monitored for illegal activity? let us know what do you think on youtube or facebook? bye bye and see as soon the. ah, ah ah, in the

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