since 2000, the women's double final is later on sunday. if you are watching d w news line from berlin up next, our tech show shift looks at drug trafficking on the dark web. stay up to date with all the news on our website, d, w dot com. i'm michael local for me in the entire news team here in berlin. thanks for watching you as well, and i'm going to put over now what seems to be a interest globally company our portfolio w business beyond. here's

a closer look at the project. our mission analyze, suffice for market dominance versus wes with w business beyond the me, fake passwords, drugs 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 or 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 it the perfect space to sell illegal goods like weapons. a recent study found that most users engaged in

collectivity is on the dark, wip this in a craddick societies. the most common illegal transactions are drax. 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 drafts on the 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. ah, hi. a schuman is head of the cybersecurity analytics and defenses department at the falling over institute in dumps that she showed us wear drugs and sold on the dock . land looking is legal only buying a crime in germany. the u. r. l's of these websites can be found on the regular internet. ok, when 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 when it's the most popular drug on the dock 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. so the whole system and darknet is based on reputation. that's why typically the service is good. if you order something it will arrive. the customer is on the dock with a not 100 percent anonymous. so they're not complete protected from prosecution because the location and ip addresses are encrypted though it makes criminal prosecution much harder. another challenge,

the lack of national board is on the dock where it says michelle isn't done, we never really know what country this service are actually located. and it's not just a technological challenge, but a judicial challenge to the whole. and so we need to personally cooperate with other law enforcement agencies, pam, and work across various deals and speciality of it's really a challenge him under the common form that was in 2019 there was finally successful working with international investigators, the federal criminal police and be spun was able to prosecute one of the world's largest drug vendors on the dark waves bull street market. the service where 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 drugs 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 web users or anonymous. when we surf the internet, we live traces behind everywhere. even when we use browsers in 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 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 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, your tract and somebody spies on you and talk, tries to try to prevent that tour, employs a technique called onion routing,

which uses multiple layers of encryption. like an onion, this ensures the user's anonymity. all search queries run through an extensive network of servers called toward nodes. this way, the uses ip address, a unique identifier, is only shared with the 1st node from them on it's the note ip address that's used . the more notes the query runs through, the harder it becomes to trace back its origin, which protects the user's identity. more than 2000000 people use tore browser every single day. activists like julius mittens, fi or on a mission to ensure that the technology behind torque is standard in every browser . so that means anyone could search the web anonymously. that actually sounds pretty good to me. this is already standard on the dark web. however, an image can also protect people engaging in illegal activities like pedophile. in recent years, the german police have discovered several different forms for this. one example was

elysium, which was one of the world's largest platforms for images and video, showing the sexual abuse of children. the form we have down in 2017 in lithium is a good example of the challenges the dark where poses for investigators. with 111000 accounts and online forms in 6 different languages. alisium, what space were pedophile from around the world to meet in 2017. they would chat and share exploitative images of children and even baby 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, it could 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 to watch, but every detail is important. and you have to 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 dish water. in the case of alisium, in air, 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 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 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 usually a boost by the are convinced that the distribution of exploitative images and videos of children would be much less widespread without it 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 and florida club with us. and i think this anonymous online exchange helps people encourage each other to pull the toothbrush. another problem for investigators is that in order to access these platforms, you use or is often need to submit new material. that means the police would have to sure 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. but when some might even say it's a bit risky, maybe i shouldn't do this anymore. i think that 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 is a software helping political activists around the world to surf the internet anonymously for 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 to the new york times and thoughts about it on your website that can be accessed only to a browser, which is especially useful in countries where these websites are used. they blogs like china, or a rod for the interview reporters with our orders. this makes the dark with a to a for more freedom of speech. the doc net or more precisely usually we talk about the toll browse that enables people to anonymously research on the internet to

access what pages that might be censored in certain countries or to share information or had documents for 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 we have is also a space that has been used to leak highly classified information blister bluish chelsea many. and it was snowed in each used to live for their leaks. and during the era screen, people use the dark, well to plan offline protests against the government without fear of prosecution. this is also been used to organize other protest offering protection prom civic by intelligence a we definitely see both the use of like the p n 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 inventing the 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 did my from reporters with a border says that we shouldn't simply think of the dark whip as being just the dark side of the internet. with darkness definitely has an image problem, the term brain. but those aspect of a sudden technology in a way to say this is about illegal activity online. and it's not just that funding mentally. it's anonymous ation tool. and that enables both legal activity and illegal activity. but it's really critical to general whistleblowers 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, were dark, suggests illegal activity, but 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 it should be closely monitored for illegal activity. let us know what you think on youtube or facebook. bye bye, and see as soon the in the me in the, the the

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